Quotes from Melissa de la Cruz

I don't love you anymore... I love someone else. I always have. -Schuyler

It hurt because he knew she loved him; she had told him as much. It just-just not enough...

So this is pain. So this is wretchedness. So this is misery. I never knew. -Jack

This ring is a symbol of my faithfulness, it binds you to me, and my love shall hold you always.

This is the only part of myself that is truly mine, and now yours.

Yes, she had seen Alex's temper flare over his disappointment with a lack of his own regiment to command, but she saw that as merely the fighting spirit of an ambitious and confident leader. Yet, wasn't that what appealed most to her about him? A spirit and impetuousness that could match her own and challenge her to be better herself in this new democracy? A man who could honor her own values?

Pretty clothes are like the colors of a flower's petals. They tell the bee where to land. After that, it's what's inside that holds his interest," said Peggy, still quoting their mother.

On the eve of the shadow crescent... Watch the Vampire burn.

It's a birthday party," sniffed Mal. "And I wasn't invited.

She had chosen him; she had made him hers. She had done it out of love and duty. -Deming

Choice," Charles cursed. "A romantic notion, but nothing more.

I love you, you know, Mimi said. You make me crazy, but God help me Jack, I do. I love you too, he replied.

She had to be honest. And this was where the truth hurt. She wanted to see Jack Force again. But it was agony

It's not you she hates, Schuyler. It's me. She just turned her anger outward because she couldn't bring herself to hate whom she loves.

I didn't accept him, Eliza thought but didn't say, because he wasn't you.

I give myself to you. she whispered. No. Not yet, he sighed. If not now, when?... Time might be running out for me. For us.

wonder how a country so divided can stand?" "We will only stand if we learn to accept and even embrace each other's differences rather than allow them to divide us. It is a childish fantasy to expect everyone to agree all the time, but how much better to live in a country where one is free to think differently from one's neighbors, and even one's government, without risking life and limb.

But if you do love him, leave him, Schuyler. Release him. Tell him you don't want him anymore. Its the only way he'll let go. -Mimi

They were embarking on a journey into the darkness inside themselves.

Trust me to return to you I will wait forever

Boys. Drau or mortal, they were all the same.

I want to kiss you so bad. But There's nothing here. You're not really here, are you? -Bliss

Ollie I would never leave you, she whispered, and she knew she was telling the truth. -Schuyler

But even if we're together, it will only kill Jack. -Sky If he will take the risk to be with you, who are you to tell him what to do with his life? -Allegra