Melissa de la Cruz · 227 pages
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“I lived for those moments when we were together, those few times in my life that I actually felt alive.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Keys to the Repository
“You may be able to call up an entire
encyclopedia, but nothing is more meaningless than a brain
with no heart and no reasoning”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Keys to the Repository
“Popularity was fickle and elusive, like trying to catch fireflies in a jar. You were either born with it or relegated to wallflower status according to your mysterious and unknowable workings of the universe.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Keys to the Repository
“All he had to do was love her, and he could do that. -Kingsley”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Keys to the Repository
“Lucifer, the most beautiful angel of all time,became so enamored with his own beauty and power that he came to believe his light was greater than the Almighty...”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Keys to the Repository
“I don't love you anymore... I love someone else. I always have." -Schuyler”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Keys to the Repository
“I love her because she has become something more to me. She has become my life. -Jack”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Keys to the Repository
“So this is pain. So this is wretchedness. So this is misery. I never knew. -Jack”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Keys to the Repository
“There would never be anything but this. Stolen moments, stolen kisses, a secret oasis.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Keys to the Repository
“It is my turn to wait. Funny that in all these months we have been meeting, it was always she waiting for me.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Keys to the Repository
“Don't worry my love, we shall have our vengeance. I promise it." -Jack”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Keys to the Repository
“I take it back! she'd wanted to say . I take everything back. I love you. Let's go away. Just the two of us together.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Keys to the Repository
“She was very special to me. But I think I'm going to have to get back...so I can. God. So I can kill her. -Dylan”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Keys to the Repository
“Gemellus, who had loved and worshiped her from afar, she who was in his arms now...”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Keys to the Repository
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“Because--isn't it drilled into us constantly, from childhood on, an unquestioned platitude in the culture--? From William Blake to Lady Gaga, from Rousseau to Rumi to Tosca to Mister Rogers, it's a curiously uniform message, accepted from high to low: when in doubt, what to do? How do we know what's right for us? Every shrink, every career counselor, every Disney princess knows the answer: "Be yourself." "Follow your heart."
Only here's what I really, really want someone to explain to me. What if one happens to be possessed of a heart that can't be trusted--? What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads one willfully and in a cloud of unspeakable radiance away from health, domesticity, civic responsibility and strong social connections and all the blandly-held common virtues and instead straight toward a beautiful flare of ruin, self-immolation, disaster?...If your deepest self is singing and coaxing you straight toward the bonfire, is it better to turn away? Stop your ears with wax? Ignore all the perverse glory your heart is screaming at you? Set yourself on the course that will lead you dutifully towards the norm, reasonable hours and regular medical check-ups, stable relationships and steady career advancement the New York Times and brunch on Sunday, all with the promise of being somehow a better person? Or...is it better to throw yourself head first and laughing into the holy rage calling your name?”
― Donna Tartt, quote from The Goldfinch
“What do you do when you finally hear everything you've always thought said aloud?”
― Sarah Dessen, quote from Along for the Ride
“when you're a kid, they tell you that it's what's on the inside that counts. Looks don't matter . But that's not true. Guys like Phoebus in The Hunchback, or Dorian, or the old Kyle Kingsbury-- they can be scumbags to women and still get away with it because they're good-looking. Being ugly is a kind of prisoner.”
― Alex Flinn, quote from Beastly
“Hours of crisis often call for sacrifice. In matters of consequence, when have doubt and fear given the best advice? Why not heed faith, courage, and honor?”
― Brandon Mull, quote from Fablehaven
“Words can lie. See beyond them.”
― Victoria Aveyard, quote from Red Queen
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