Quotes from Melissa de la Cruz

Of course," Cal'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.

You cannot let the darkness overcome the light.

The Council!" Ingrid yelped. "The oracle doesn't knock," Freya scoffed.

She really did trust Eliza. People made mistakes. She understood that now. And as Happy as she was to be with Ryan again, her friendship with Eliza was just as important. You only met a few kindred spirits in your life, and you had to hold on to the ones you were lucky enough to find.

Es el reto al que nos enfrentamos todos. ¿Qué podemos hacer para mejorar nosotros y este país? ¿Qué podemos hacer para ser recordados? ¿Quiénes queremos ser?

Alexander Hamilton, widely reputed to be the most eloquent man in the United States of America, had, for the first time in his life, been rendered speechless.

Hey you." She smiled and traced a finger on his cheek. "Where have you been?" "Right here, always," Jack murmured, kissing her all over her face, her neck. But there was little time for tenderness

But aren't all stories about love in some way?

Good job, said Lonnie, who'd been watching from the balcony. Thanks, said Jay, pleased with how everything had turned out. He smiled when he realized he hadn't even had to steal anything to get what he wanted. He'd done it all by playing by the rules.

A little education, Eliza reckoned, could sometimes be more dangerous than no education at all.

No hay nada en todo el mundo que tenga más relevancia que saber que tú tienes razón y que las masas están equivocadas y, aun así, que las masas te arrollen».

Hay que tener un gran valor para enfrentarse a nuestros enemigos, pero se necesita aún más valor para enfrentarse a nuestros amigos. —J. K. ROWLING, HARRY POTTER Y LA PIEDRA FILOSOFAL

Ingrid dresses more like a librarian than any librarian in the history of libraries.

What Mrs. Schuyler is saying, General Schuyler added, is that it is the Schuylers who would be honored by a union woth so brilliant and noble a personage as Colonel Hamilton.

endless meetings. Ever since she'd assumed the title of Regent, Mimi felt as if her life was measured out in marathon conference calls and discussions that went nowhere.

It's up to you how far you go. If you don't try, you'll never know." —Merlin, The Sword in the Stone

beef ragout, a bubbling and airy cheese soufflé, luscious and crispy roast chickens, mashed potatoes that had little pools of melted butter.

His head screamed at him to run.... But his heart...His heart told him to stay and fight, that even if he was deathly afraid, he had to find a way to get the ring away from her. He had to prove to himself that he was brave enough, and that he was enough.

You think you're too good for me, don't you, National Scholar. But you're just a mail-order bride and that's all you are. I can't believe my brother hasn't seen through you. You should have been long gone by now.

Wait, Duncan is Lucifer? As in the mayor of New York City? Schuyler felt like she'd been hit over the head. Her ears rang loudly. Evil and politics really go hand in hand, don't they?

I like to think of it as fighting for the light rather than fighting against the dark. It's easier to fight for something, rather than against it. You light a candle when you want to see; you don't try to put out the night.

Humans were not to be toyed with, they were to be respected.

At the door stood the strangest, most beautiful being Alphonia had ever seen, a silver-haired mage with violet eyes, neither female nor male, but both, as all the most powerful mages are.

Today he hasn't been half as irritating, which I find rather irritating.