Melissa de la Cruz

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Once you start telling people you're famous, they believe you.
- Melissa de la Cruz
Collection: Famous
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I haven't paid for anything since I became famous.
- Melissa de la Cruz
Collection: Famous
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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
Collection: Nice
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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
Collection: Hate
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Tonight the world is yours, as am I.
- Melissa de la Cruz
Collection: Tonight
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Because love was not the answer to every question. Because real love meant sacrifice. Sometimes love means letting go.
- Melissa de la Cruz
Collection: Letting Go
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Had pretended to be Abbadon of the Dark, when always he had been working for the Light.
- Melissa de la Cruz
Collection: Dark
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White for light. White for love. White for forever.
- Melissa de la Cruz
Collection: Light
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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
Collection: Soul
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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
Collection: Morning
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we laughed until we had to cry, we loved until we said goodbye.
- Melissa de la Cruz
Collection: Goodbye
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I still love you. I will always love you, and that is all that matters. I will forgive you anything, and I will forgive you this.
- Melissa de la Cruz
Collection: Love You
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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
Collection: Tired
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Never trust a shiny surface. They hide a multitude of flaws.
- Melissa de la Cruz
Collection: Flaws
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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
Collection: Happiness
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One should not seek those who do not wish to be found.
- Melissa de la Cruz
Collection: Wish
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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
Collection: Mean
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Who knew that the path to a womans heart was through the soul of an honest man?
- Melissa de la Cruz
Collection: Spiritual
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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
Collection: Daughter
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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
Collection: Sorry
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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
Collection: Pain
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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
Collection: Kissing
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They did it for love, and sometimes love makes us do the irrational .. even the inexcusable.
- Melissa de la Cruz
Collection: Sometimes
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He knew what it was like to love one who did not--or could not--love you back. But he'd had no choice. None of them did.
- Melissa de la Cruz
Collection: Love You
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He kissed her, and their souls melted into each other in a melody older than time.
- Melissa de la Cruz
Collection: Soul
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Evil was seductive and easy, and virtue was difficult and unappreciated.
- Melissa de la Cruz
Collection: Evil
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He was like a shooting star you tried to catch with your hands. She would only get burned.
- Melissa de la Cruz
Collection: Stars
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A mind is like a puzzle; you must unlock it to read its hidden secrets.
- Melissa de la Cruz
Collection: Secret
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You have punished me long enough, you have punished yourself long enough. Return to me. I beg.
- Melissa de la Cruz
Collection: Long
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Looking for Narnia? You’re in the wrong universe
- Melissa de la Cruz
Collection: Narnia
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Remember all fairy tales end at some point.
- Melissa de la Cruz
Collection: Fairy Tale
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If you think we'll get in, we'll get in. It's all about confidence, trust me.
- Melissa de la Cruz
Collection: Thinking
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This is not some silly game...This is life and death Angels and demons.
- Melissa de la Cruz
Collection: Silly
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Dude you scare me sometimes! You're all vampire superwoman
- Melissa de la Cruz
Collection: Vampire
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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
Collection: Dream
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Schuyler pulled Oliver close and hugged him tightly. "Thank you," she whispered. Thank you for loving me enough to let me go.
- Melissa de la Cruz
Collection: Enough
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And Kingsley being Kingsley, he smiled as he pretended to pull the trigger.
- Melissa de la Cruz
Collection: Triggers
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Oliver liked to play the part of disaffected youth, but he liked shopping in SoHo even more.
- Melissa de la Cruz
Collection: Play
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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
Collection: Mistake
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She can't let him go not telling him what she was about to do. Kingsley...I can't do this. I'm coming with you.
- Melissa de la Cruz
Collection: Let Him Go
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As an author you hope your characters have sparks but truly in the end they have minds of their own!
- Melissa de la Cruz
Collection: Character
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You are healed." Allegra nodded. "You are no longer a Silver Blood." She paused. "But you are no longer a vampire either." Bliss started. No longer a vampire-but what did that mean? Did it mean she was just human?
- Melissa de la Cruz
Collection: Mean
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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
Collection: Shy
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Every Valentine's Day, the student council sponsered a holiday fundraiser by selling roses that would be delievered in class. The roses came in four colors:white, yellow, red, pink, and the subtleties of thier meaning were parsed and analyzed by the female population to no end. Mimi had always understood it thus:white for love, yellow for friendship, red for passion, and pink for a secret crush.
- Melissa de la Cruz
Collection: Crush
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The world in your mind is as real as the world outside of it.
- Melissa de la Cruz
Collection: Real
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He's too much for Schuyler. They're wrong for each other. Anyone can see that. And when he leaves her, I'll be there. However long it takes, I'll still be there for her. Waiting.
- Melissa de la Cruz
Collection: Long
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Black is the color of night. White is the true color of death
- Melissa de la Cruz
Collection: Night
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sometimes, when the sun shines, it scorches.
- Melissa de la Cruz
Collection: Shining
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Even if they end up together, which I highly doubt, given the strength of that particular bond-...-but even if Schuyler still loves him, or thinks she does, it doesn't matter. Because Jack is going to leave her one day. i know he will. He's too much for Schuyler. They're wrong for each other. Anyone can see that. And when he leaves her, I'll be there. However long it takes, I'll still be there for her. Waiting.
- Melissa de la Cruz
Collection: Thinking
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That was the thing about pictures--they were worth a thousand words, but sometimes they weren't the right ones.
- Melissa de la Cruz
Collection: Sometimes