Melissa de la Cruz Quotes

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He was like a shooting star you tried to catch with your hands. She would only get burned.

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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.

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He kissed her, and their souls melted into each other in a melody older than time.

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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.

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If you think we'll get in, we'll get in. It's all about confidence, trust me.

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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...

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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.

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One minute you could be getting a smoke in the alley on the Lower East Side with your friends, having drinks and dancing on tables in a popular nightclub. And the next minute, you could be dead.

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Evil was seductive and easy, and virtue was difficult and unappreciated.

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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.

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I don't trust an organization that would make policy out of fear.

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And Kingsley being Kingsley, he smiled as he pretended to pull the trigger.

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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.

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That was the thing about pictures—they were worth a thousand words, but sometimes they weren't the right ones.

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Kingsley, ever the joker, had his Venator mark tattooed near his unmentionables

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Had pretended to be Abbadon of the Dark, when always he had been working for the Light.

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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.

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I love her because she has become something more to me. She become my life.

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Jack leaped over the gate, his sword aflame. To vanquish his foe and rescue his love.

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Oliver liked to play the part of disaffected youth, but he liked shopping in SoHo even more.

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Because love was not the answer to every question. Because real love meant sacrifice. Sometimes love means letting go.

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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!

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Death was just the beginning of a journey that everyone took at some point.

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She could not trust herself to hope—but without hope, she realized, she had no reason to go on.

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It's said a friend is a person who walks in when everyone else walks out.

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