Quotes from Melissa de la Cruz

As an author you hope your characters have sparks but truly in the end they have minds of their own!

Just because I worked in fashion doesn't mean I didn't go to see 'Underworld' three times!

I always thought of vampires, especially the young-adult ones, as a metaphor for sex - sucking blood, forbidden, taboo. I think they just ooze sex. Vampires are all the big themes in life in one attractive, bloodsucking package.

Kingsley did the same, except he also removed his T-shirt, showing off his broad chest, tan and smooth. When had Kingsley had time to work on his tan? Mimi wondered.

Being an adult comes with a whole new set of issues.

He wasn't perfect, but he was perfect for her.

Once you start telling people you're famous, they believe you.

I haven't paid for anything since I became famous.

I was always a sci-fi and fantasy geek. I was in the 'Lord of the Rings' club and all my cool friends made fun of me.

Black is the color of night. White is the true color of death

You cannot be with someone just because you don't want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.

we laughed until we had to cry, we loved until we said goodbye.

White for light. White for love. White for forever.

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.

Maybe weakness is a strength of a kind.

Never trust a shiny surface. They hide a multitude of flaws.

I don't need anything to get high. I'm high on life.

The world in your mind is as real as the world outside of it.

Schuyler pulled Oliver close and hugged him tightly. "Thank you," she whispered. Thank you for loving me enough to let me go.

Bonds are like rules, they're meant to be broken.

Who knew that the path to a womans heart was through the soul of an honest man?

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.

A brain with no heart and no reasoning ... well, nothing is more meaningless.

That was the thing about pictures--they were worth a thousand words, but sometimes they weren't the right ones.