“Black is the color of night. White is the true color of death”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Blue Bloods
“I don't need anything to get high. I'm high on life.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Blue Bloods
“But there's always a first time for everything”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Blue Bloods
“He kissed her, and their souls melted into each other in a melody older than time.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Blue Bloods
“Oliver liked to play the part of disaffected youth, but he liked shopping in SoHo even more.
”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Blue Bloods
“She nodded... and was about to turn away. Then, as if she thought better of it, she reached out and grabbed his arm. "Jack."
"Yes?"
"I. . ." she faltered. She knew what she wanted to tell him, but she couldn't bring herself to say the words.
It turned out she didn't have to. Jack put a hand to his heart and nodded. "I feel the same way about you.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Blue Bloods
“He's too much for Schuyler. They're wrong for each other. Anyone can see that.
And when he leaves her, I'll be there.
However long it takes, I'll still be there for her.
Waiting.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Blue Bloods
“When their lips met, and their tongues touched, it was like they were kissing in a hundred different places, and her senses were flooded with new sensations and old memoires. He kissed her, and their souls melted into each other in a melody older than time.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Blue Bloods
“You have punished me long enough, you have punished yourself long enough. Return to me. I beg.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Blue Bloods
“It was maddening how your best friend could twist the knobs inside of you so much that it hurt.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Blue Bloods
“One minute you could be getting a smoke in the alley on the Lower East Side with your friends, having drinks and dancing on tables in a popular nightclub. And the next minute, you could be dead.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Blue Bloods
“If you think we'll get in, we'll get in. It's all about confidence, trust me.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Blue Bloods
“It didn't help that she was painfully shy and kept to herself, because then they just thought she was stuck-up, which she wasn't. She was just quiet.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Blue Bloods
“As Jack slung an arm around his sister's shoulders in an intimate and affectionate way, something in her heart broke.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Blue Bloods
“Leave it alone Schuyler. For your sake and mine.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Blue Bloods
“Jack put a hand on his heart and nodded. "I feel the same way about you.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Blue Bloods
“They were embarking on a journey into the darkness inside themselves.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Blue Bloods
“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.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Blue Bloods
“Sometimes driven aground by the photon storms, by the swirling of the galaxies, clockwise and counterclockwise, ticking with light down the dark sea-corridors lined with our silver sails, our demon-haunted sails, our hundred-league masts as fine as threads, as fine as silver needles sewing the threads of starlight, embroidering the stars on black velvet, wet with the winds of Time that go racing by. The bone in her teeth! The spume, the flying spume of Time, cast up on these beaches where old sailors can no longer keep their bones from the restless, the unwearied universe. Where has she gone? My lady, the mate of my soul? Gone across the running tides of Aquarius, of Pisces, of Aries. Gone. Gone in her little boat, her nipples pressed against the black velvet lid, gone, sailing away forever from the star-washed shores, the dry shoals of the habitable worlds. She is her own ship, she is the figurehead of her own ship, and the captain. Bosun, Bosun, put out the launch! Sailmaker, make a sail! She has left us behind. We have left her behind. She is in the past we never knew and the future we will not see. Put out more sail, Captain for the universe is leaving us behind…”
― Gene Wolfe, quote from The Citadel of the Autarch
“So what are you doing around here?" I ask, feeling all jittery, but this time it's in a good way.
"Oh, I was just in the area." he says vaguely. "I thought I'd take Welly for a walk..." He trails off and stuffs his hands in his pockets.
Those butterflies are going crazy in there.”
― Alexandra Potter, quote from Who's That Girl?
“His arms held me like a vice, and I wondered if he would crush the life from me, and it occurred to me that I didn’t care as long as I died in his arms...”
― Tess Oliver, quote from Camille
“When he reached out with both huge hands to grasp me, I ducked under them and stepped forward, smoothly pulling my knife out of my sleeve. Then, with one quick swipe, I sliced him across the belly. I wasn't certain enough of his anatomy to try stabbing him in the heart. As big as he was, his ribs were probably as thick as my wrist.
He stared at me in utter amazement. Then he looked down at the entrails that came boiling out of the gaping wounds that ran from hip to hip across his lower belly.
"I think you dropped something there, Grul," I suggested.
He clutched at his spilling entrails with both hands, a look of consternation on his brutish face. "'Grat cut Grul's belly," he said. "Make Grul's insides fall out."
"Yes, I noticed that. Did you want to fight some more, Grul? I think you could spend your time better by sewing yourself back together. You're not going to be able to move very fast with your guts tangled around your feet."
"'Grat is not nice," he accused mournfully, sitting down and holding his entrails in his lap.”
― David Eddings, quote from Belgarath the Sorcerer
“He may be a scholar, but he’s first a man who believes—with certain justification—that he was betrayed by his government.”
― Robert Ludlum, quote from The Bourne Supremacy
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