Melissa de la Cruz famous quotes

It was so nice just to live in the moment, to enjoy holding him so closely, to pretend for a little while that they were merely two young people in love and nothing else.
-- Melissa de la Cruz

#Nice #Two #People

White for light. White for love. White for forever.
-- Melissa de la Cruz

#Light #White #Forever

Tonight the world is yours, as am I.
-- Melissa de la Cruz

#World #Tonight #Declarations Of Love

I have never given this ring, my soul, to anyone. Azrael has never had any part of this. This is the only part of myself that is truly mine, and now it is yours.” —Jack Force
-- Melissa de la Cruz

#Soul #Azrael #Force

One should not seek those who do not wish to be found.
-- Melissa de la Cruz

#Wish #Found #Should

You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.
-- Melissa de la Cruz

#Happiness #Hurt #Thinking

Had pretended to be Abbadon of the Dark, when always he had been working for the Light.
-- Melissa de la Cruz

#Dark #Light

Because love was not the answer to every question. Because real love meant sacrifice. Sometimes love means letting go.
-- Melissa de la Cruz

#Letting Go #Real #Mean

That morning, she had found an envelope stuffed into her locker. It was from the Mercer Hotel, and held a plastic door key for their suite. "See you there tonight," Oliver had written. "Chomp! Chomp!
-- Melissa de la Cruz

#Morning #Doors #Keys

Love. It's so close to hate, it's almost indistinguishable. But this is how it was for the two of them. Love and hate. Life and death. Joy and anguish.
-- Melissa de la Cruz

#Hate #Two #Life And Death

Who knew that the path to a womans heart was through the soul of an honest man?
-- Melissa de la Cruz

#Spiritual #Heart #Men

Never trust a shiny surface. They hide a multitude of flaws.
-- Melissa de la Cruz

#Flaws #Never Trust #Surface

Remember all fairy tales end at some point.
-- Melissa de la Cruz

#Fairy Tale #Remember #Tales

A mind is like a puzzle; you must unlock it to read its hidden secrets.
-- Melissa de la Cruz

#Mind #Secret #Hidden Secrets

When their lips met, and their tongues touched, it was like they were kissing in a hundred different places, and her senses were flooded with new sensations and old memoires. He kissed her, and their souls melted into each other in a melody older than time.
-- Melissa de la Cruz

#Kissing #Soul #Tongue

Looking for Narnia? You’re in the wrong universe
-- Melissa de la Cruz

#Narnia #Universe

You have punished me long enough, you have punished yourself long enough. Return to me. I beg.
-- Melissa de la Cruz

#Long #Return #Enough

I'm so sorry for loving you, I'm so sorry.... But it was such a wonderful dream, my love, such a wonderful dream.
-- Melissa de la Cruz

#Dream #Sorry #Loving You

I lived for those moments when we were together, those few times in my life that I actually felt alive.
-- Melissa de la Cruz

#Together #Alive #Moments

He was like a shooting star you tried to catch with your hands. She would only get burned.
-- Melissa de la Cruz

#Stars #Hands #Shooting

Instead of fearing the future, I should live and enjoy the present, she told herself.
-- Melissa de la Cruz

#Should #Enjoy

I'm tired of being your best friend. I'm tired of being second best. I won't settle for that anymore. It's all or nothing, Schuyler. You have to decide. Him or me. - Oliver Hazzard-Perry
-- Melissa de la Cruz

#Tired #Your Best Friend #Second Best

Black is the color of night. White is the true color of death
-- Melissa de la Cruz

#Night #White #Color

The rose fell into his lap, and he looked up, startled. Mimi grinned. "Hey handsom" Mimi sent. "What's up?" Jack replied, without speaking. "Just thinking of you." Jack's smile deepened, and he threw the rose back at her so that it landed in her lap. Mimi tucked it behind her ear and fluttered her eyelashes appreciatively.
-- Melissa de la Cruz

#Thinking Of You #Eyelashes #Rose

If she loved him the way she said she did, she wanted him whole. Maybe this was what love meant after all: sacrifice and selflessness. It did not mean hearts and flowers and a happy ending, but the knowledge that another's well-being is more important than one's own.
-- Melissa de la Cruz

#Flower #Mean #Heart

You've got to stop thinking everyone's problems can be solved by falling in love.
-- Melissa de la Cruz

#Falling In Love #Fall #Thinking

Time did not mean anything to those who had too much of it, but it was even more precious once it was limited.
-- Melissa de la Cruz

#Mean #Too Much

Death was just the beginning of a journey that everyone took at some point.
-- Melissa de la Cruz

#Journey

No one was ever good enough for anybody's precious sons. No one ever called daughters precious, and why was that? Things had not changed very much. In the end women like Emily and Ingrid and Freya and Joanna only had one another to lean on. The men were wonderful when they were around, but their fires burned too bright, they lived too close to the sun - look what happened to her boy, and to her man. Gone. Women only had one another in the end.
-- Melissa de la Cruz

#Daughter #Son #Boys

They did it for love, and sometimes love makes us do the irrational .. even the inexcusable.
-- Melissa de la Cruz

#Sometimes #Irrational #Sometimes Love

He wasn't perfect, but he was perfect for her.
-- Melissa de la Cruz

#Perfect

Not that they were there to have fun—although with Kingsley Martin around, fun was never far from the agenda.
-- Melissa de la Cruz

#Fun #Having Fun #Agendas

She could not trust herself to hope—but without hope, she realized, she had no reason to go on.
-- Melissa de la Cruz

#Goes On #Reason #Without Hope

Kingsley, ever the joker, had his Venator mark tattooed near his unmentionables
-- Melissa de la Cruz

#Tattooed #Mark

This is college?' Schyler asked. 'or Downton Abbey?
-- Melissa de la Cruz

#College #Abbey

You made a sacrifice. And heaven rewarded you.
-- Melissa de la Cruz

#Sacrifice #Heaven #Made

Evil was seductive and easy, and virtue was difficult and unappreciated.
-- Melissa de la Cruz

#Evil #Seductive #Virtue

I haven't paid for anything since I became famous.
-- Melissa de la Cruz

I know you. I know this isn't you. And even if it is, I still love you. As much as I always have. You will always be mine. I will always love you, I promised you that when you left, and it's true now.
-- Melissa de la Cruz

#Love You #Stills #I Still Love You

It didn't help that she was painfully shy and kept to herself, because then they just thought she was stuck-up, which she wasn't. She was just quiet.
-- Melissa de la Cruz

#Shy #Helping #Quiet

As an author you hope your characters have sparks but truly in the end they have minds of their own!
-- Melissa de la Cruz

#Character #Mind #Sparks

A promise, a bond, a joy, a love for the ages, for the history books.…But what was love but pain?
-- Melissa de la Cruz

#Pain #Book #Joy

It was maddening how your best friend could twist the knobs inside of you so much that it hurt.
-- Melissa de la Cruz

#Hurt #Twists #Your Best Friend

I don’t want to make the same mistakes I’ve made before. I want to be free. I want to be with you. We will be together. I believe I will have less to live for, if I am not with you.
-- Melissa de la Cruz

#Mistake #Believe #Together

Kingsley did the same, except he also removed his T-shirt, showing off his broad chest, tan and smooth. When had Kingsley had time to work on his tan? Mimi wondered.
-- Melissa de la Cruz

#Mimi #T Shirt #Shirts

When she reached the shallow end, Kingsley held out his hand and pulled her up, but she lost her step and fell into his arms, her body crushing momentarily against his.
-- Melissa de la Cruz

#Crush #Hands #Body

Jack leaped over the gate, his sword aflame. To vanquish his foe and rescue his love.
-- Melissa de la Cruz

#His Love #Rescue #Vanquish

Do not cry for me, Azrael. Do not waste your tears. You made your decision. And this is mine. Sacrifice seems to be my destiny. A funny thing for a selfish man, isn't it? They always called me weak back then...
-- Melissa de la Cruz

#Selfish #Sacrifice #Destiny

If you think we'll get in, we'll get in. It's all about confidence, trust me.
-- Melissa de la Cruz

#Thinking #Trust Me

Kingsley smiled his Cheshire smile. And without a word, he called up the white darkness—the subvertio—a spell that unlocked what could not be unlocked, that destroyed what could not be destroyed. There was a rumbling, a shaking, like the strongest earthquake, and the iron gate crumbled, and the path began to melt. the demon shrieked, but Kingsley just looked at Mimi the entire time. "Azrael...
-- Melissa de la Cruz

#Earthquakes #Iron #White

Love. It's so close to hate, it's almost indistinguishable.
-- Melissa de la Cruz

#Hate

Trust me to return to you." "I will wait forever. however long it takes.
-- Melissa de la Cruz

#Long #Forever #Waiting

I am not sorry for a moment . It was worth every moment, every second we were together. I would not change it for an immortal lifetime
-- Melissa de la Cruz

#Sorry #Together #Moments

Once you start telling people you're famous, they believe you.
-- Melissa de la Cruz

#Believe #People

Bonds are made to be broken," he said. "Just like rules.
-- Melissa de la Cruz

#Broken #Said #Made