“If she loved him the way she said she did, she wanted him whole. Maybe this was what love meant after all: sacrifice and selflessness. It did not mean hearts and flowers and a happy ending, but the knowledge that another's well-being is more important than one's own.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Lost in Time
“Remember all fairy tales end at some point.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Lost in Time
“I still love you. I will always love you, and that is all that matters. I will forgive you anything, and I will forgive you this.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Lost in Time
“I'm so sorry for loving you, I'm so sorry.... But it was such a wonderful dream, my love, such a wonderful dream.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Lost in Time
“He was like a shooting star you tried to catch with your hands. She would only get burned.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Lost in Time
“It's always good to be underestimated.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Lost in Time
“Trust me to return to you."
"I will wait forever.
however long it takes.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Lost in Time
“I am not sorry for a moment . It was worth every moment, every second we were together. I would not change it for an immortal lifetime”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Lost in Time
“Was he hungry? He'd had an enormous breakfast, but the transition from the glimpse had taken a lot out of him. Did they serve lunch in Hell? Should he have packed a snack? Why was he suddenly thinking about food?”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Lost in Time
“We are bonded now. We will face it together. Your destiny is mine as well. We shall live or die together.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Lost in Time
“I will wait forever," she promised. "However long it takes.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Lost in Time
“No one's happy here, you know that. But I am content, and maybe that's enough for me.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Lost in Time
“They each had secrets they were keeping from the other; secrets they were keeping out of love.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Lost in Time
“Sometimes it was better to keep Pandora's box closed.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Lost in Time
“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 the future. I believe we choose our own destiny. You didn't give me a choice last time. You just left. But I'm here now. And I love you. Stay with me. Don't fear the future; we'll face it together.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Lost in Time
“He squeezed her hand one last time. Then Jack was gone and she was alone.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Lost in Time
“They were friends. That's all she ever seemed to have. Friends. She had enough of them.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Lost in Time
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“Women have less direct relationship to anger...When a woman "bites" her tongue to avoid expressing anger, its not at all socialization. A lot of it is brain circuitry. Even if a woman wanted to express her anger right away, often her brain circuits would attempt to hijack this response, to reflect on it first out of fear and anticipation of retaliation. Also, the female brain has a tremendous aversion to conflict, which is set up by fear of angering the other person and losing the relationship. Instead of triggering a quick action response in the brain, as it does in males, anger in girls and women moves through the brain's gut feeling, conflict-pain anticipation, and verbal circuits.
Scientists speculate that though a woman is slower to act out of anger, once her faster verbal circuits get going, they can cause her to unleash a barrage of angry words that a man cant match.
Typical men speak fewer words and have less verbal fluency than women, so they may be handicapped in angry exchanges with women.
Often when I see a couple who are not communicating well, the problem I see is that the man's brain's circuits push him frequently and quickly to an angry, aggressive reaction, and the woman feels frightened and shuts down.”
― Louann Brizendine, quote from The Female Brain
“Early to bed, early to rise," Ziggy said.
"Early or late, sleep is sleep," Victor grunted”
― Brandon Mull, quote from Arcade Catastrophe
“At a time when we can split the atom, land on the moon, and decode the human genome, why do 2 billion people live on less than $2 a day?”
― Charles Wheelan, quote from Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science
“Because everything you perceive is a metaphor for
something your brain is not equipped to fully understand.
God is as real as the clothes you are wearing and the chair
you are sitting in. They are all metaphors for something you
will never understand.”
― Scott Adams, quote from God's Debris: A Thought Experiment
“We mistakenly assume that bodily survival has a higher precedence than ego survival. This is simply not generally true. Ego will happily destroy body for its own sake.”
― Karl Marlantes, quote from What It is Like to Go to War
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