01UndatedYou 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 / quote ↗
02UndatedEven 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 / quote ↗
03UndatedBet you can't even name one romantic movie you like," she teased.She felt smug when a few minutes went by and Oliver was still unable to name one romantic movie he could profess to enjoy.The Empire Strikes Back," Oliver finally declared, tapping his horn at a Prius that wandered over the line.The Empire Strikes Back? The Star Wars movie? That's not romantic!" Schuyler huffed, fiddling with the air conditioner controls.Au contraire, my dear, it's very romantic. The last scene, you know, when they're about to put Han in that freezing cryogenic chamber or whatever? Remember?"Schuyler mmm-hmmmed.And Leia leans over the ledge and says, 'I love you.'"That's cheesy, not romatic," Schuyler argued, although she did like that part.Let me explain. What's romantic is what Han says back. Remember what he says to her? After she says 'I love you'?"Schuyler grinned. Maybe Oliver had a point. "Han says, 'I know.'"Exactly," Oliver tapped the wheel. "He doesn't have to say anything so trite as 'I love you." Because that's already understood. And that's romantic.Melissa de la Cruz / quote ↗
04UndatedWho knew that the path to a womans heart was through the soul of an honest man?Melissa de la Cruz / quote ↗
08UndatedKingsley nodded. 'Of course. Sophia always did say wisdom had to be earned.Melissa de la Cruz / quote ↗
09UndatedEvery 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 / quote ↗
10UndatedI 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 / quote ↗
12UndatedSchuyler 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 / quote ↗
13UndatedDon’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 / quote ↗
14UndatedWho wanted to make lemonade from lemons, when you could make perfectly good lemonade grenades?Melissa de la Cruz / quote ↗
15UndatedIf 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 / quote ↗
16UndatedYou may be to call up the entire encyclopedia, but a brain with no heart and no reasoning .. well, nothing is more meaningless.Melissa de la Cruz / quote ↗
18UndatedListen, Legs, I'm going to die anyway. I'm human. And I don't know about you, but I don't believe in visions of the future. I believe we choose our own destiny. You didn't give me a choice last time. You just left. But I'm here now. And I love you. Stay with me. Don't fear the future; we'll face it together.Melissa de la Cruz / quote ↗
19UndatedInstead of fearing the future, I should live and enjoy the present, she told herself.Melissa de la Cruz / quote ↗
20UndatedGoodness works in mysterious ways. Even in the deepest dark, you’ll find a light to shine your way through.Melissa de la Cruz / quote ↗
22UndatedHad pretended to be Abbadon of the Dark, when always he had been working for the Light.Melissa de la Cruz / quote ↗
24UndatedIt wasn't a lie, not at all like one of those lies she told herself all the time, like This is the last drink of the evening, or I'm not going to set the bitch's house on fire.Melissa de la Cruz / quote ↗
