Quotes from Melissa de la Cruz

and the woman who founded New York's first private orphanage . . .

Then he said that he might call child services if Mom or Dad couldn't keep watch over me. The specific words he used were child endangerment.

Snobs are the worst. Especially elite snobs like her, who think they're so sophisticated when really, they're closed-minded. They live in their fancy bubble and think that's all there is to life. I turn away, but she's not done with me yet.

She radiated confidence, and poise, and a brightness that was hard to ignore. Josh felt like the luckiest guy in the world when he entered her orbit. By then, she was already popular on Instagram. She had several hundred thousand followers and was making a name for herself online.

This is a new country, as you say. Why shouldn't it have new laws, new customs? And why should not those customs extend to the home itself. To—to love!

Be brave. You are more than you seem, and you know more than you know.

Do we have a plan?" Alistair asks nervously, fidgeting with his hands. "No," Jack says. "But knowing we don't have a plan is better than not knowing we need one.

Advertisers loved her, brands were eager to work with her. She was entirely real and that was hard to come by online. Where the whole world looked fake, she wasn't.

Any time a girl went missing was sad, but Harper felt it was particularly typical of everyone to care when the victim was a pretty blond girl who was probably loaded.

Cal, listen to me." I reach for his hands. Mine are shaking. "Hansen will have my name and my kingdom. But he will never have my heart. That remains with you, my love, forever.

Harper was well aware of how pretty white women enchanted society. Girls with brown skin like hers disappeared every day and people on the internet barely batted an eye.

Celebrities?" "They're the famous people of this world. They're mostly actors, singers, musicians. 'Stars,' we call them. Like... instead of the stars we look up to in the sky, they're the people we look up to.

Filomena's heart starts to sink. Another feeling she's grown used to. -- Never After, The Thirteenth Fairy

There was no record of Allegra being allowed to bear a daughter in this cycle. So the mere fact that you were born was already a violation. From birth she had been a mistake, Schuyler thought. Her mother that still, silent figure in the hospital bed... why did she choose to have me? Schuyler wondered

I've never said it to his face, but sometimes he can be a little controlling. He tries to tell me what to wear, how to do my hair, that I'm too loud sometimes.

There she saw the tiny princess, the fairest of the (is) land, sitting on her rickety throne, her hair as blue as the ocean, eyes as dark as night, and lips as pink as roses. Her hair was pulled back from her face in a pretty V-braid, and she laughed in delight at the array of marvels before her. The

If I could go back to my girlhood and its freedom, I would. But that's never possible: life pushes us forward, into more complications than we ever imagined as children.

It didn't matter that Amelia was fluent in Mandarin and could code as well as a first-year at Peking University, she was still treated like her mother: as an interloper.

All four of them cheered and yelled and jumped around like crazy idiots. Even Evie was grinning now. She had never been so happy to see herself in the mirror, and now that she was herself again, she found that for once in her life, nobody even cared how she looked. Not even her. It was like magic.

I've heard about the palace windows," Rhema says. "One of the cooks told me that she worked in the kitchens there as a girl. She said that in the great hall of Violla Ruza, some of the windows have actual colored glass. Can you believe it? And there's a rose on each one, with three circles around them." She was talking about the Renovian royal seal. Cal knew it well. "The three circles symbol eternity.

I hope he's not just dating you so you can be his maid," he says.

Her mind's always spinning, thinking about the next thing, the next danger. It's a good quality, he guesses, but an exhausting one.

That sounds…exciting!

Frustration. Cal knows all about that. His whole life has turned into a frustrated quest, and he's been faced with one thing after another that he can never have or never find or never vanquish.