The Coldest Touch Quotes

“That's the thing about death." I wrap my arm around Elise and lay my head on hers. She shudders, but she presses closer, her tears dampening my shirt. It doesn't mean anything. "We rarely get the deaths we deserve. The universe doesn't care about fairness.”
― Isabel Sterling, The Coldest Touch

“There are a lot of great things about immortality. Though vampires have never held the same obsessions with gender binaries or heteronormative nonsense as western human societies, it's been nice to witness the mortal world's evolution. This decade has been so much better for humans who love like Wyn and I do, who experience gender the way Wyn does. There's language for us, now. Pockets of community that feel so much like home, even if those moments are fleeting for vampires.”
― Isabel Sterling, The Coldest Touch

“Isn't that the beauty of life, making choices and falling in love and embracing the good things - no matter how small - even when you have no idea what will happen next?”
― Isabel Sterling, The Coldest Touch

“That's the thing about death." I wrap my arm around Elise and lay my head on hers. She shudders, but she presses closer, her tears dampening my shirt. ”
― Isabel Sterling, The Coldest Touch

“Despite the crowded room, despite the blissful absence of hunger, I feel suddenly alone. The kind of alone that crumples my soul like discarded paper.

In my haze, I wonder if I have a soul anymore. If I ever did.”
― Isabel Sterling, The Coldest Touch

“Wyn has been a vampire since 1782. I was turned at seventeen, in 1937, which means I'm practically a child by vampire standards. It also doesn't help that I can't claim a bloodline, since Rose never bothered to properly introduce herself, but at least that part Wyn understands. They don't know their bloodline, either.”
― Isabel Sterling, The Coldest Touch

“I want to reach for her hand. I want to feel her cool, soft skin and make sure it was real. Make sure I can feel her touch and nothing else - no pain, no fear, no weakness.
No death.”
― Isabel Sterling, The Coldest Touch

“But she doesn't have those things, doesn't remember if she ever did. She's been lonely longer than she's been seventeen.
And she's been seventeen for so many years she's lost count.”
― Isabel Sterling, The Coldest Touch

“Absolutely.”
― Isabel Sterling, The Coldest Touch

“He seems at home in this world of magic and make-believe. He chose this life.
I was cursed into it.”
― Isabel Sterling, The Coldest Touch

“So, she tries on an array of personalities. Becomes a dozen funhouse versions of herself until she forgets who she is inside. She’ll wield her charm as a weapon and her smile as her shield.”
― Isabel Sterling, The Coldest Touch

“She’s been lonely longer than she’s been seventeen.
And she’s been seventeen for for so many years she’s lost count.”
― Isabel Sterling, The Coldest Touch