Melissa De La Cruz Quotes & Sayings

Was he hungry? He'd had an enormous breakfast, but the transition from the glimpse had taken a lot out of him. Did they serve lunch in Hell? Should he have packed a snack? Why was he suddenly thinking about food? — Melissa De La Cruz

There was always another boy, and then another, and another — Melissa De La Cruz

She really did trust Eliza. People made mistakes. She understood that now. And as Happy as she was to be with Ryan again, her friendship with Eliza was just as important. You only met a few kindred spirits in your life, and you had to hold on to the ones you were lucky enough to find. — Melissa De La Cruz

You're late," she said, tapping her watch.
"No, you're just early. — Melissa De La Cruz

They were embarking on a journey into the darkness inside themselves. — Melissa De La Cruz

Dude you scare me sometimes! You're all vampire superwoman — Melissa De La Cruz

Magic is an honor, until it's a shackle. — Melissa De La Cruz

Gemellus, who had loved and worshiped her from afar, she who was in his arms now ... — Melissa De La Cruz

I used to write my books at night when I was a freelancer with no children. I used to really work in huge spurts - I could turn around a revision in two weeks, I used to be able to write 10,000 words a day. It's like, 'Wow, what happened to that?' That's just gone. — Melissa De La Cruz

I don't need anything to get high. I'm high on life. — Melissa De La Cruz

What Mal wanted, more than anything, was to be just like her mother.
Exactly like her. — Melissa De La Cruz

Carlos never shied from a mission, and if Mal wanted a howler, there was no alternative but to provide one. There was nothing he could do about it, AP Evil Penchant or not. He knew his place on the totem pole. First things first: a party couldn't be a party without guests. Which meant people. Lots of people. Bodies. Dancing. Talking. Drinking. Eating. — Melissa De La Cruz

She was very special to me. But I think I'm going to have to get back ... so I can. God. So I can kill her. -Dylan — Melissa De La Cruz

Bonds are made to be broken," he said. "Just like rules. — Melissa De La Cruz

Sounds like that happens to you a lot. Bet your girlfriend wasn't thrilled, though." She wasn't sure why she said it, but it came out before she could think. "Who said I have a girlfriend?" He said, raising his scarred eyebrow. His dark eyes crinkled. "No one," she said. " Well, I don't anymore, if anyone's interested."
"Who's interested?"
"Are you?" He looked her straight in the eye.
"I could ask the same of you," she scoffed.
"So what if I was? Interested, I mean." He shrugged.
"It wouldn't be a surprise," she said. "I'm sure half the crew has a crush on me. — Melissa De La Cruz

I think kindness, out of all virtues, is the best quality to have. — Melissa De La Cruz

I take it back! she'd wanted to say . I take everything back. I love you. Let's go away. Just the two of us together. — Melissa De La Cruz

It was hopeless. Their journey was ended before it had truly begun. — Melissa De La Cruz

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

Yet even though they were together, she could not stop worrying about how much time they would have- — Melissa De La Cruz

Instead of fearing the future, I should live and enjoy the present, she told herself. — Melissa De La Cruz

I don't trust an organization that would make policy out of fear. — Melissa De La Cruz

The world in your mind is as real as the world outside of it. — Melissa De La Cruz

Maybe she'd been drinking too much of the super-sweet Mexican Coca-Cola they had down here. Or maybe she was just tired, alone, and far from home. Because somewhere in the brittle, concrete center of Azrael's dark heart, something was melting. — Melissa De La Cruz

I love her because she has become something more to me. She become my life. — Melissa De La Cruz

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.
-Jack — Melissa De La Cruz

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

But these aren't just stories," she'd said. "They're whole kingdoms. They're worlds. They're perspectives and opinions you can't offer, from lives you haven't lived. They're more valuable than any gold coin, and more important than any state luncheon. I should hope you, as king, would know that! — Melissa De La Cruz

If you think we'll get in, we'll get in. It's all about confidence, trust me. — Melissa De La Cruz

Being an adult comes with a whole new set of issues. — Melissa De La Cruz

Bonds are like rules, they're meant to be broken. — Melissa De La Cruz

Sometimes it was better to keep Pandora's box closed. — Melissa De La Cruz

Feelings, which aren't always rational, have their own life span and sometimes, for whatever reason, need to be lived out. — Melissa De La Cruz

Joanna, like her daughters, was neither old nor young, and yet their physical appearances corresponded to their particular talents. Depending on the situation, Freya could be anywhere from sixteen to twenty-three years of age, the first blush of Love, while Ingrid, keeper of the Hearth, looked and acted anywhere from twenty-seven to thirty-five; and since Wisdom came from experience, even if in her heart she might feel like a schoolgirl, Joanna's features were those of an older woman in her early sixties. — Melissa De La Cruz

She didn't want Jack to be with her only because he couldn't be with the person he truly loved. — Melissa De La Cruz

Once the bond was sealed, it could not be broken for this cycle. Schuyler would become nothing more than a distant memory. — Melissa De La Cruz

Choice," Charles cursed. "A romantic notion, but nothing more. — Melissa De La Cruz

Looking for Narnia? You're in the wrong universe — Melissa De La Cruz

Because love was not the answer to every question. Because real love meant sacrifice. Sometimes love means letting go. — Melissa De La Cruz

It was always gloomy in Mal's room, just as it was always gray and overcast on the island. — Melissa De La Cruz

Mimi knew now what she had to do. To save their bond, to save themselves. She had to destroy Schuyler Van Alen. — Melissa De La Cruz

Boys. Drau or mortal, they were all the same. — Melissa De La Cruz

And Schuyler hoped with all her heart that he would never find out the truth. — Melissa De La Cruz

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

HE was standing across the street, staring at her with a look of shock and dismay. One look in Oliver's eyes and she knew he knew. But how? How could he have known? The'd been so careful to keep their love a secret. The grief etched all over his face was too much to bear. Schuyler felt the words catch in her throat as she crossed the stree to stand in front of him. "Ollie ... it's not ... " Oliver shot her a look of pure hatred, turned on his heel and began to run away. "OLIVER, please,let me explain.. — Melissa De La Cruz

He squeezed her hand one last time. Then Jack was gone and she was alone. — Melissa De La Cruz

Black is the color of night. White is the true color of death — Melissa De La Cruz

In a flash, they disappeared. The path, the gate, the demon, and the Silver Blood.
Kingsley was gone. Trapped in Hell for eternity.

Mimi collapsed to the ground, as if her heart had imploded in her chest. — Melissa De La Cruz

I meant does it hurt when you hide every last shred of your individuality and self worth behind acres of silk and cups of powder and smiles that never, no matter how hard you try, reach your eyes? — Melissa De La Cruz

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

On the eve of the shadow crescent ...
Watch the Vampire burn. — Melissa De La Cruz

Don't touch me. Don't tell me how beautiful my eyes are, how
soft my hair is, how you love to hear my voice. Don't. Don't pretend
you are falling in love with me. I know you are lying, and every
word you say hurts even more. Let us just be friends, if we can start
there. Can't we? Can't we at least be friends? Get to know each
other a little? Before the wedding, and the bedding, when I will
have to take you as my lord and husband? — Melissa De La Cruz

It's not fair. It's not our fault. We have no say in our own lives. We're living a fairy tale someone else wrote. — Melissa De La Cruz

I don't love you anymore... I love someone else. I always have." -Schuyler — Melissa De La Cruz

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

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

Love does not make you weak; it is the absence of it that does. — Melissa De La Cruz

You cannot let the darkness overcome the light. — Melissa De La Cruz

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

Nat didn't know what to make of Ryan Wesson-whether she wanted to slap him or kiss him. Slap him, definitely — Melissa De La Cruz

School was more than academics; an education prepared you for the humdrum of real life: working with others, tempering one's personality to assimilate with the group but without losing your individual identity, understading the factors of logic, reasoning, and debate. For a person - vampire or human - to succeed in the world, unlocking the mysteries of the universe was insufficient. One would also need to grasp the mysteries of human nature. — Melissa De La Cruz

But aren't all stories about love in some way? — Melissa De La Cruz

Villains don't have friends, and neither do their children. Not when you get right down to it. — Melissa De La Cruz

She still loved him, she would always love him, but it was the kind of love that was muted, safely seen through the rear-view window, like a place you used to call home but no longer visited. There would always be a wound there, but the healing had begun. — Melissa De La Cruz

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

If you are sorry, you will leave him. Jack will never be yours, Schuyler. Not like I am yours.
-Oliver — Melissa De La Cruz

I'm proud of you, Bliss," he said.
"Michael's sword released the souls that were trapped in your blood. You freed them. You freed me."
"But now I'm never going to see you again, am I?" she asked.
Dylan smiled. "It's unlikely. But I never say never.'
"I wish you wouldn't go. I'll miss you so much," Bliss said.
"I'll miss you too."
Dylan put his hand up, and so did Bliss. But this time, instead of touching air, she felt his warm hand grasping her cold one. She looked at Allegra. Somehow, she knew her mother was making this happen. Dylan leaned down, and she could feel his lips, soft and inviting, gently kissing hers. Then Dylan was gone. But Bliss did not feel anguished. She felt at peace. Dylan was not broken and incomplete anymore. He was whole. — Melissa De La Cruz

By lunchtime, the rest of the school was still talking about last night's epic howler at Hell Hall, but Mal had no interest. The party was the past; she'd moved on. She had bigger things to worry about now. All she could think about was how her mother wanted the Dragon's Eye back. And how Maleficent wouldn't see her as anything other than her father's daughter - in other words, a pathetic, soft human - until Mal could prove her wrong. Mal kept reliving last night's conversation over and over, so that she missed her first few classes and sleepwalked through the rest. She arrived for her one-on-one after-school seminar with Lady — Melissa De La Cruz

It is good to be busy. Being busy takes our mind off being in love at the wrong time, in the wrong place and with the wrong guy. — Melissa De La Cruz

All his gentleness, all his kindness, all the bright shining gorgeousness of his love, he had always given to someone else. — Melissa De La Cruz

You look beautiful and tragic, just the way a heroine should on the eve of battle. Like Joan of Arc in her silver armor. — Melissa De La Cruz

Schuyler put a gentle hand on Abbadon's feathered extensions, feeling the majestic power underneath their silky weight. She had been frightened once, to see him in this light, but now that she saw his terrifying face, she found it beautiful. — Melissa De La Cruz

Oliver liked to play the part of disaffected youth, but he liked shopping in SoHo even more.
— Melissa De La Cruz

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

Just because I worked in fashion doesn't mean I didn't go to see 'Underworld' three times! — Melissa De La Cruz

They did it for love, and sometimes love makes us do the irrational .. even the inexcusable. — Melissa De La Cruz

But there's always a first time for everything — Melissa De La Cruz

Remember all fairy tales end at some point. — Melissa De La Cruz

But even if we're together, it will only kill Jack." -Sky
"If he will take the risk to be with you, who are you to tell him what to do with his life?" -Allegra — Melissa De La Cruz

There was no such thing as a happy ending, only a happy present. — Melissa De La Cruz

She had an unusual name. She knew that much. It wasn't the kind of name that you found on ceramic coffee mugs at airport gift shops or emblazoned on mini-license plate souvenirs you could hang on your bedroom door after you returned from Disneyland. Her name was pretty and unusual and had meaning. — Melissa De La Cruz

Never trust a shiny surface. They hide a multitude of flaws. — Melissa De La Cruz

Dark books do appeal to kids because they have nice, sheltered lives - and they also appeal to children who are going through pretty hard times themselves. — Melissa De La Cruz

This is college?' Schyler asked. 'or Downton Abbey? — Melissa De La Cruz

Popularity was fickle and elusive, like trying to catch fireflies in a jar. You were either born with it or relegated to wallflower status according to your mysterious and unknowable workings of the universe. — Melissa De La Cruz

You made a sacrifice. And heaven rewarded you. — Melissa De La Cruz

Prove that you are my daughter, prove that you are mine. Prove to me that you are the blood of the dragon. Prove you are worthy of that mark on your skin. — Melissa De La Cruz

Daughters. They could cut you with a look. — Melissa De La Cruz

I can't think of anything I'm not grateful for. — Melissa De La Cruz

Schuyler knew that one day it would come to this. That she would have to lose one to have the other one. That this game would have consequences. — Melissa De La Cruz

In other words, time was a kind of palimpsest, traces of the past peeking through the present, only to be written over in the future again. — Melissa De La Cruz

Had pretended to be Abbadon of the Dark, when always he had been working for the Light. — Melissa De La Cruz

Kingsley nodded. 'Of course. Sophia always did say wisdom had to be earned. — Melissa De La Cruz

Tonight the world is yours, as am I. — Melissa De La Cruz

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

What happened to your face?' she asked.
'It fell on a fist.' He shrugged.
'That happens a lot?'
'Enough. — Melissa De La Cruz

This is the only part of myself that is truly mine, and now yours. — Melissa De La Cruz

Sometimes she was even sure that she had ever really existed. — Melissa De La Cruz

He was like a shooting star you tried to catch with your hands. She would only get burned. — Melissa De La Cruz

I don't know who you are. But I do know that every time I see you, I feel better. -Dylan — Melissa De La Cruz