“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
“What will you tell him?"
"The truth."
Fortismer thinks about that.
"Yes," he says at last. "Probably the best thing. Bloody deceptive, honesty.”
― Nick Harkaway, quote from The Gone-Away World
“In our society of fixed texts and printed words, it is the function of the poet to see the life value of the facts round about, and to deify them, as it were, to provide images that relate the everyday to the eternal.”
― Joseph Campbell, quote from Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation
“When you first fall in love, it's supposed to be awful. Awful, uncertain, scary, wonderful, confusing, all at once. That's how you know it's real. You have to care deeply. Passionately. That hurts.”
― Nancy Werlin, quote from Impossible
“Were you terrified, Murgatroyd?" Murgatroyd nodded eagerly. "There you go, girl: You're a terrorist. You make me twitchy, and under Article Forty-One of the 2000 Terrorism Bill, that's all I need. Time for some reasonable force, I think.”
― China Miéville, quote from Un Lun Dun
“As the virtual world of electronic communication becomes the world many of us inhabit all the time, in turning to imaginative literature we may not be seeking mere reassurance nor be impelled by mere nostalgia. To enter with heart and mind into the world of the imagination may be to head deliberately and directly toward, or back toward, engagement with the real world. In one of T. S. Eliot’s poems a bird sings, “Mankind cannot bear very much reality.” I’ve always thought that bird was mistaken, or was talking only about some people. I find it amazing how much of the real world most of us can endure. Not only endure, but need, desire, crave. Reality is life. Where we suffocate is in the half-life of unreality, untruth, imitation, fakery, the almost-true that is not true. To be human is to live both within and beyond the narrow band of what-happens-now, in the vast regions of the past and the possible, the known and the imagined: our real world, our true Now.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, quote from Tales from Earthsea
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