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please,Tana,please.' -lots of characters in The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
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In the dream, Tana's mother loved her more than anyone or anything. More than death.
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After every battle, he ritually dips his hood into the blood of his enemies. I’ve seen the hood, kept under glass in the armory. The fabric is stiff and stained a brown so deep it’s almost black, except for a few smears of green.Sometimes I go down and stare at it, trying to see my parents in the tide lines of dried blood. I want to feel something, something besides a vague queasiness. I want to feel more, but every time I look at it, I feel less.
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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.
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I have heard for mortals, the feeling of falling in love is very much like the feeling of fear
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He reached into the bag and drew out an odd array of manga, ripped paperbacks of books both classic and modern, and a small stack of crumpled magazines. "See, I even brought some things to read aloud. I wasn't sure what you'd like, so there's a bit of everything.
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The whole place looks straight out of a fairy tale, the kind where love is a simple thing, never the cause of pain.
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She swallowed his blood, a dark vintage from some forgotten cellar. She felt like Persephone in Hades, pomegranate seeds bursting against her teeth, juice rolling on her tongue, and the more she had, the more she hungered.
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Aaron shook his head, disappointed. "Why do you have to be such a jerk?" he asked Call. "Because you never are," Call told him staunchly."I have to be a jerk for both of us.
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