Holly Black

“She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for.”

“Someone could cut through the mess in our house and look at it like one might look at rings on a tree or layers of sediment. They'd find the black-and-white hairs of a dog we had when I was six, the acid-washed jeans my mother once wore, the seven blood-soaked pillowcases from the time I skinned my knee. All our family secrets rest in endless piles.”

“There’s a tipping point with lies, a point where you’ve said something so many times that it feels truer than the truth.”

“I can learn to live with guilt. I don't care about being good.”

“In the older folklore, faeries were frightening beings. In fact, it was such a bad idea to get their attention that people would use flattering euphemisms for them, such as 'the people of peace,' 'the little people,' and 'the good neighbors.'”

“Tana would sit near the door to the basement with fingers in her ears, tears and snot running down her face as she cried and cried and cried. And little Pearl would toddle up, crying, too. They cried while they ate their cereal, cried while they watched cartoons, and cried themselves to sleep at night, huddled together in Tana's little bed. 'Make her stop' Pearl said, but Tana couldn't.”

“Kiss my ass Rath Roiben Rye”

“please,Tana,please.' -lots of characters in The Coldest Girl in Coldtown”

“In the dream, Tana's mother loved her more than anyone or anything. More than death.”

“Death has his favorites, like anyone. Those who are beloved of Death will not die.”