Melissa de la Cruz > Quotes

“Black is the color of night. White is the true color of death”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Blue Bloods

“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, The Van Alen Legacy

“we laughed until we had to cry, we loved until we said goodbye.”
― Melissa de la Cruz

“White for light. White for love. White for forever.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Masquerade

“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, Lost in Time

“Maybe weakness is a strength of a kind.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, The Van Alen Legacy

“Never trust a shiny surface. They hide a multitude of flaws.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Masquerade

“I don't need anything to get high. I'm high on life.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Blue Bloods

“Bet 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, Revelations

“The world in your mind is as real as the world outside of it.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, The Van Alen Legacy

“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, The Van Alen Legacy

“Bonds are like rules, they're meant to be broken.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, The Van Alen Legacy

“Who knew that the path to a womans heart was through the soul of an honest man?”
― 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, Revelations

“Wait--we have one left," the runner said, bringing out what was surely the most expensive bouquet of all: a three-foot tall arrangement of two hundred white roses, in the palest ivory color. All the girls swooned. Almost no boys bought white roses ever. It was a big sign of commitment. But this one practically trumpeted a captured heart.
The runner set the bouquet in front of Schuyler.
Mimi raised an eyebrow. She had always won the roses lottery. What was this all about?
For me?" Schuyler asked, awestruck by the size of the thing.
She took the card from the tallest stem.
For Schuyler, who doesn't like love stories." It was not signed.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Masquerade

“A brain with no heart and no reasoning ... well, nothing is more meaningless.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Masquerade

“Tonight the world is yours, as am I.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Revelations

“But there's always a first time for everything”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Blue Bloods

“That was the thing about pictures--they were worth a thousand words, but sometimes they weren't the right ones.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Skinny-Dipping

“One should not seek those who do not wish to be found.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Masquerade

“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, Masquerade

“Prove it!" she hissed. "Prove you are who you are!"
"We don't have time for this! You really want me to prove who I am?" he asked.
"Yes!" she challenged.
In answer, he took her in his arms, lifting her up and against the wall. He pressed his lips against hers, and with each kiss she could see into his mind, into his soul. She saw a year of hate...saw him alone, alienated, hurt. She had lied to him and had left him. With every kiss he made her see, made her feel...every emotion, every dream he had of her...every ounce of his wanting and his need...and his love...his all-consuming, life-affirming love for her. In the darkness they found each other again...and she kissed him back, so greedily and hungrily, she never wanted to stop kissing him...to feel his heart against hers, the two of them intertwined together, his hands in her hair, then down the small of her back. She wanted to cry from the overwhelming emotion that engulfed the two of them....
"Now do you belive me?" Jack asked huskily, pulling away from a moment so they could look into each other's eyes. Schuyler nodded, breathless. Jack. Every fiber of her being tingled with love and desire and remorse and forgiveness. Oh Jack...the love of her life, her sweet, her soul...”
― Melissa de la Cruz, The Van Alen Legacy

“He kissed her, and their souls melted into each other in a melody older than time.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Blue Bloods

“Thank you for loving me enough to let me go.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, The Van Alen Legacy

“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, Revelations

“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, Revelations

“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, Revelations

“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, The Van Alen Legacy

“Remember all fairy tales end at some point.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Lost in Time

“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, Lost in Time