Quotes from Melissa de la Cruz

She didn't want Jack to be with her only because he couldn't be with the person he truly loved.

He had tried so hard so many times, and she had always rejected him. He would not give her another chance, she knew. -Sky

Do not cry for me, Azrael. Do not waste your tears. You made your decision. -Kingsley

Mimi collapsed to the ground, as if her heart had imploded in her chest.

She had sacrificed her love, but he would not sacrifice his.

Mimi walked out of church, knowing that if she ever saw Jack again, she would have to kill him.

Dylan leaned down, and she could feel his lips, soft and inviting, gently kissing hers. Then Dylan was gone.

And at last, the lonely young man who belonged to no one finally belonged to someone, forever, and the practical girl who would not settle for less then a love story for the ages found the life long romance she had yearned for all her life.

They might all be drinking laced Kool-Aid in there, but she had a good head on her shoulders. Things like vampires and past lives and immortality just didn't exist in the real world. And Schuyler was a card-carrying member of the real world. She didn't want to check into CrazyTown any time soon.

Don't touch me. Don't tell me how beautiful my eyes are, how soft my hair is, how you love to hear my voice. Don't. Don't pretend you are falling in love with me. I know you are lying, and every word you say hurts even more. Let us just be friends, if we can start there. Can't we? Can't we at least be friends? Get to know each other a little? Before the wedding, and the bedding, when I will have to take you as my lord and husband?

There was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made. —WILLA CATHER, MY ÁNTONIA

Oh, wonderful, a president who hates immigrants.

Who wanted to make lemonade from lemons, when you could make perfectly good lemonade grenades?

It was always gloomy in Mal's room, just as it was always gray and overcast on the island.

There would never be anything but this. Stolen moments, stolen kisses, a secret oasis.

It is my turn to wait. Funny that in all these months we have been meeting, it was always she waiting for me.

Don't worry my love, we shall have our vengeance. I promise it. -Jack

I love her because she has become something more to me. She has become my life. -Jack

Magic is an expression of the unlimited capacity of mystery and wonder in the world.

silly man. I know the man I am marrying is destined for great things, as the many remarkable things he has done thus far have brought himto such a high oint already. Mark my words, Alex. You are a man whose future lies before him for all to marvel at one day. And you, Colonel Hamilton, are mine, and I am yours always.

We are wolves of the guard, soldiers of the light. Hunted and haunted,bye the beasts of night. Friend to all and foe to none, Love and loyalty bind us as one. Time and tide shall heal all wounds Memories and madness shall not consume. To death and despair we shall never surrender, The pact never to be forsaken, or torn asunder.

For Alex to be enveloped into one of New York State's blue-ribbon families helped put to bed a lifetime of doubts and depression about his own dubious birthright.

It was hopeless. Their journey was ended before it had truly begun.

The moon slipped under a blanket of clouds