Quotes from Melissa de la Cruz

She'd never really liked companionship before, but then again, Maleficent had always insisted that they lived apart from the pack - superior, alone and bent on revenge. Lonely, Mal thought. I was lonely. And so were they. Evie, with her beauty-obsessed mother; Carlos, with his screeching harpy of a parent; Jay, the happy-go-lucky thief with a quick wit and dashing smile, who could steal anything in the world except his father's heart.

We are wolves of the guard, soldiers of the light. Hunted and haunted,by the beasts of night. Friend to all and foe to none, Love and loyalty bind us as one. Time and tide shall heal all wounds Memories and madness shall not consume. To death and despair we shall never surrender, The pact never to be forsaken, or torn asunder.

The stone is called the Rose of Lucifer, or Lucifer's Bane," the senator explained with a smile. "Have you heard the story?

In other words, time was a kind of palimpsest, traces of the past peeking through the present, only to be written over in the future again.

M.F. you're better than this. -K.M.

It was true what they said about mothers and sons: it was a special bond, a mutual admiration society.

Carlos never shied from a mission, and if Mal wanted a howler, there was no alternative but to provide one. There was nothing he could do about it, AP Evil Penchant or not. He knew his place on the totem pole. First things first: a party couldn't be a party without guests. Which meant people. Lots of people. Bodies. Dancing. Talking. Drinking. Eating.

Alex, is there anything more beautiful than dropping a seed in the earth and then waiting for it to become something perfectly useful?

Now tell me the truth, he said. Why are you doing this? She cringe from him. I told you why. I know you still love me. He smiled. I can see it in your face. Mimi sneered. We are with Lucifer now; we have always been false. I don't believe it for one second, Kingsley whispered, looking into her eyes tenderly.

Feelings, which aren't always rational, have their own life span and sometimes, for whatever reason, need to be lived out.

For some reason, Eliza had always thought Alexander Hamilton would be dark-haired, but he was in fact a ginger

But that was the thing about Alex, a nameless orphan from the Caribbean, who had written his way up to General Washington's side, he was nothing if not determined.

Rely on your friends, and let their strength carry yours as well.

Glad you guys are the ones going after v them and not me and Jace. We'd be too scared, all right. Crikey, you're all so brave. I'm not, really, said Evie. But sometimes you have to do the things you have to do.

She couldn't imagine how anyone would want to forego the intimate experience of a book—pages whispering between the fingers, hurried glances at the colorful cover before immersing oneself again.

She looked not like a mother in her thirties, but like the girl he had fallen in love with, and he loved her still. She would always be that girl to him, no matter what happened. That was love, after all, the ability to see one's youthful beloved in the aging stranger with her face. He would always love her, he thought. He was made to love her.

The villain kids all had questions when they'd first arrived too: Was it okay to eat as much food as you could from the refectory? (Jay) Could you take as many classes as you could fit into your schedule—or even take two classes at the same time, if you worked really fast? (Carlos, of course.) Evie had wanted to know if they had to wear uniforms (they didn't), while Mal's only question was where she could acquire purple spray paint (the art studio).

Be there, or Mal will find you," he said to his squat little lab partner, Le Fou Deux, as they both dissected a frog that would never turn into a prince in Unnatural Biology class. "Be there, or Mal will find you and ban you from the city streets," he whispered to the Gastons as they took turns stuffing each other in doomball nets in PE.

Joanna looked down at

You could save the kingdom, but you still had to pass Magical History.

We may not have tomorrow, but we have tonight.

sé la heroína de tu vida, no la víctima. —NORA EPHRON

I live because I have to. You will hurt, you will bleed, you will be betrayed as I have been betrayed. You will survive. And you must learn to control your power.

Of course," Carl's father would say, "this is just a story and stories are always a little bit true and a little bit false; we just don't know which is which.