Quotes from Melissa de la Cruz

But there's always a first time for everything

One should not seek those who do not wish to be found.

Every Valentine's Day, the student council sponsered a holiday fundraiser by selling roses that would be delievered in class. The roses came in four colors:white, yellow, red, pink, and the subtleties of thier meaning were parsed and analyzed by the female population to no end. Mimi had always understood it thus:white for love, yellow for friendship, red for passion, and pink for a secret crush.

He kissed her, and their souls melted into each other in a melody older than time.

Thank you for loving me enough to let me go.

Love. It's so close to hate, it's almost indistinguishable. But this is how it was for the two of them. Love and hate. Life and death. Joy and anguish.

I'm tired of being your best friend. I'm tired of being second best. I won't settle for that anymore. It's all or nothing, Schuyler. You have to decide. Him or me. - Oliver Hazzard-Perry

He knew what it was like to love one who did not--or could not--love you back. But he'd had no choice. None of them did.

It was so nice just to live in the moment, to enjoy holding him so closely, to pretend for a little while that they were merely two young people in love and nothing else.

I still love you. I will always love you, and that is all that matters. I will forgive you anything, and I will forgive you this.

Remember all fairy tales end at some point.