Melissa de la Cruz Quotes

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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.

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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.

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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.

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A mind is like a puzzle; you must unlock it to read its hidden secrets.

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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?

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You have punished me long enough, you have punished yourself long enough. Return to me. I beg.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Jack Force was more than she had ever dared wish for, and he was better than a dream or a fantasy because he was real. He was far from perfect, moody and distant at times, and burdened with sharp temper and an impulsiveness that was part of his dark nature. But she felt more love for him than she thought possible. He wasn't perfect, but he was perfect for her. (Schuyler Van Alen)

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The world in your mind is as real as the world outside of it.

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Instead of fearing the future, I should live and enjoy the present, she told herself.

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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

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

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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.

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They did it for love, and sometimes love makes us do the irrational.. even the inexcusable.

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