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.”
“You may be able to call up an entire
encyclopedia, but nothing is more meaningless than a brain
with no heart and no reasoning”
“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.”
“All he had to do was love her, and he could do that. -Kingsley”
“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...”
“I don't love you anymore... I love someone else. I always have." -Schuyler”
“I love her because she has become something more to me. She has become my life. -Jack”
“So this is pain. So this is wretchedness. So this is misery. I never knew. -Jack”
“There would never be anything but this. Stolen moments, stolen kisses, a secret oasis.”
“It is my turn to wait. Funny that in all these months we have been meeting, it was always she waiting for me.”
“Don't worry my love, we shall have our vengeance. I promise it." -Jack”
“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.”
“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”
“Gemellus, who had loved and worshiped her from afar, she who was in his arms now...”
“What good did it do to light the world on fire if she had to watch the glow alone?”
“Nobody really knows her
Except the chosen few
Her secrets are kept hidden
Behind that sun-kissed hue.
If I reach out to touch her
She’ll just run away
My Forever and Always
Will have to wait another day.”
“There were a lot of fools at that conference—pompous fools—and pompous fools drive me up the wall. Ordinary fools are all right; you can talk to them, and try to help them out.”
“I was a little excited but mostly blorft. "Blorft" is an adjective I just made up that means 'Completely overwhelmed but proceeding as if everything is fine and reacting to the stress with the torpor of a possum.' I have been blorft every day for the past seven years.”
“Look around you, Lessa of Pern, look around the Weyr with unveiled eyes. Old and hallowed is the Weyr? Yes, but shabby and worn – and disregarded. Yes, you were elated to sit in the Weyrwoman’s great chair at the Council Table, but the padding is thin and the fabric dusty. Humbled to think your hands rest where Moreta’s and Torene’s had rested? Well, the stone is ingrained with dirt and needs a good scrubbing. And your rump may rest where theirs did – but that’s not where you have your brains.”
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