His voice had a faint trace of an accent she couldn't place - one that made her pretty sure he was no local kid infected the night before.

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.

I survive at the edge of friends circles.

I got bored," he says. "Besides, you know what's creepier than walking around your dead brothers' apartment? Sitting alone in a hearse in front of his apartment.

Harden your heart.

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.

If you keep it," Daneca says, "he'll have his claws in you."Everyone has their claws in me. Everyone.

This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses.