Melissa de la Cruz citations

“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.”

“White for light. White for love. White for forever.”

“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?”

“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.”

“Tonight the world is yours, as am I.”

“But there's always a first time for everything”

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

“Thank you for loving me enough to let me go.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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”

“Oliver liked to play the part of disaffected youth, but he liked shopping in SoHo even more.”

“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.”

“Remember all fairy tales end at some point.”

“sometimes, when the sun shines, it scorches.”

“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.”

“And Kingsley being Kingsley, he smiled as he pretended to pull the trigger.”

“This is not some silly game… This is life and death Angels and demons.”

“She can't let him go not telling him what she was about to do.

Kingsley… I can't do this. I'm coming with you.”

“Memories were moving pictures in which meaning was constantly in flux. They were stories people told themselves.”