“She made her choice. She loved Oliver. Jack was not hers to love, and never had been.” — Melissa de la Cruz Choice Copy Share Image
“There was no such thing as a happy ending, only a happy present.” — Melissa de la Cruz Happiness Copy Share Image
You've got to stop thinking everyone's problems can be solved by falling in love. — Melissa de la Cruz Copy Share Image
“There would never be anything but this. Stolen moments, stolen kisses, a secret oasis.” — Melissa de la Cruz Stolen kisses Copy Share Image
“All he had to do was love her, and he could do that. -Kingsley” — Melissa de la Cruz Heart Copy Share Image
“Thank you," she whispered. Thank you for loving me enough to let me go.” — Melissa de la Cruz Love Copy Share Image
“The stone is called the Rose of Lucifer, or Lucifer’s Bane,” the senator explained with a smile. “Have you heard the story?” — Melissa de la Cruz Flowers Copy Share Image
Not that they were there to have fun—although with Kingsley Martin around, fun was never far from the agenda. — Melissa de la Cruz Copy Share Image
That was the thing about pictures--they were worth a thousand words, but sometimes they weren't the right ones. — Melissa de la Cruz Photography Copy Share Image
“This was the nightmare that had plagued her for months...the same despair that washed over her now. She was losing him.” — Melissa de la Cruz Nightmare Copy Share Image
Memories were moving pictures in which meaning was constantly in flux. They were stories people told themselves. — Melissa de la Cruz Copy Share Image
“It wasn't a lie, not at all like one of those lies she told herself all the time, like This is the… — Melissa de la Cruz Humorous Copy Share Image
“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… — Melissa de la Cruz Copy Share Image
I still love you. I will always love you, and that is all that matters. I will forgive you anything, and I… — Melissa de la Cruz Copy Share Image
“ Azrael... In a flash, they disappeared. The path, the gate, the demon, and the Silver Blood. Kingsley was gone. Trapped in… — Melissa de la Cruz Bond Copy Share Image
“Listen, Legs, I'm going to die anyway. I'm human. And I don't know about you, but I don't believe in visions of… — Melissa de la Cruz Blue bloods Copy Share Image
“Medicine is a bit like love," Aunt Gertrude began. "There are the theatrical outer forms gone through by the players-the bandages and… — Melissa de la Cruz Historical fiction Copy Share Image
“It was a story they could tell their children, something out of a fairy tale. How their mother had not known who… — Melissa de la Cruz Children Copy Share Image
“She couldn’t imagine how anyone would want to forego the intimate experience of a book—pages whispering between the fingers, hurried glances at… — Melissa de la Cruz Writer Copy Share Image
“Now tell me the truth," he said. "Why are you doing this?" She cringe from him. "I told you why." "I know… — Melissa de la Cruz Lucifer Copy Share Image
I always thought of vampires, especially the young-adult ones, as a metaphor for sex - sucking blood, forbidden, taboo. I think they… — Melissa de la Cruz Copy Share Image
If she loved him the way she said she did, she wanted him whole. Maybe this was what love meant after all:… — Melissa de la Cruz Flower Copy Share Image
A brain with no heart and no reasoning ... well, nothing is more meaningless. — Melissa de la Cruz Brain Copy Share Image
“She was wrong. She was not strong. Her heart was breaking, she could feel it... -Sky” — Melissa de la Cruz Heart Copy Share Image
“I don't love you anymore... I love someone else. I always have." -Schuyler” — Melissa de la Cruz Love Copy Share Image
“So this is pain. So this is wretchedness. So this is misery. I never knew. -Jack” — Melissa de la Cruz Misery Copy Share Image
“She was a stranger in her own life, a tourist in her own body.” — Melissa de la Cruz Copy Share Image
Trust me to return to you." "I will wait forever. however long it takes. — Melissa de la Cruz Copy Share Image
Being an adult comes with a whole new set of issues. — Melissa de la Cruz Adolescence Copy Share Image
“Jack put a hand on his heart and nodded. "I feel the same way about you.” — Melissa de la Cruz Copy Share Image
“Gemellus, who had loved and worshiped her from afar, she who was in his arms now...” — Melissa de la Cruz Heart Copy Share Image
And Kingsley being Kingsley, he smiled as he pretended to pull the trigger. — Melissa de la Cruz Copy Share Image
“On the eve of the shadow crescent... Watch the Vampire burn.” — Melissa de la Cruz Shadow Copy Share Image
Kingsley, ever the joker, had his Venator mark tattooed near his unmentionables — Melissa de la Cruz Copy Share Image
