Quotes from Melissa de la Cruz

Daughters. They could cut you with a look.

Crap. I thought that picture was you.' He pointed. 'That's not me. That's my mother,' Mal said with a sigh. 'Woah, you really do look like her, you know,' Jay said. 'You two could be twins,' Evie agreed. 'That, my friends, is called genetics,' Carlos said with a smile.

What Mal wanted, more than anything, was to be just like her mother. Exactly like her.

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.

Let's go. I have a party to throw." And someone to throw it at.

When you meet the right person, it's like nothing else—nobody else. No one in your past ever mattered.

Strength didn't have to mean facing danger alone. Strength came from trust, and friendship, and loyalty.

I will love you, my English rose, and you will fill my French dreams

Magic is an honor, until it's a shackle.

Yen Sid surveyed the young villains in front of him. "What you are about to do is very dangerous." Carlos perked up. "That's fine, my middle name is–" "Oscar" said Evie. "We know.

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

There was no such thing as a happy ending, only a happy present.

It's difficult to be honorable at your worst moment and to forgive those who do you wrong, to have to battle what comes naturally to you. But that's what it takes to be a monster living among mortals.

My aunts taught me that sometimes when the world is too much, when life starts to feel overwhelming, we must strip away what's unnecessary, seek out the quiet, and listen to the dirt and trees. "All the answers you seek are there, but only if you are willing to hear them.

Never ever, ever make excuses for a scoundrel.

Even though you can't control the things that happen to you, you can control your perspective and your actions. There's never a moment you can't choose who you want to be.

That was the problem these days--everything was considered disposable--clothes, cell phones, relationships.

Me, crazy?" Mal raised her voice even higher. "How could I not be? I go to school in a graveyard and eat expired scones for breakfast. My own mother sends me to forbidden places like this, because of some old bird and a lost stick," she scoffed. "There's nothing you can throw at me that's worse than what I've already got going.

Have you ever seen a germ? Aunt Gertrude asked without waiting for Eliza's reply. Neither have I, yet I have no doubt they exist, because I have seen their effects on the body. Likewise I have never 'seen' love, yet I have witnessed again and again its transformative effect on human beings.

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.

Jane had a sweet, lovely laugh, and hours later Carlos discovered he was still thinking about it.

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

Gemellus, who had loved and worshiped her from afar, she who was in his arms now...

We're all trapped. I'm as trapped as they are. The more Ben thought about it, the more he knew it was true. He hadn't chosen to be born a prince and become a king, just as they hadn't chosen who their parents were. They were prisoners for a crime they themselves had not committed. That was the greater crime, wasn't it? It's not fair. It's not our fault. We have no say in our own lives. We're living in a fairy tale someone else wrote.