“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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“So overnight I’ve somehow turned into a woman who has sex with a complete stranger, a slightly weird stranger might I add, that results in my clothes getting ruined to the point of incineration and I have no memory of said sex. Which I suppose in a way is kind of a shame because he is really fit.”
― Samantha Towle, quote from First Bitten
“We look at each other with shy relief. It's the look two odd socks give when they recognise each other in the wild.”
― Fiona Wood, quote from Six Impossible Things
“This is how your heart gets
snagged, like a balloon on a barbed-wire fence, this is where pieces of you get torn away.”
― Pete Wentz, quote from Gray
“Jesus Christ did not set a limit for Himself, neither did He follow all His own maxims to the letter. The Holy Spirit ever inspired His holy soul and, being entirely abandoned to its every breath, it had no need to consult the moment that had passed, to know how to act in that which was coming. The breath of grace shaped every moment according to the eternal truths subsisting in the invisible and unfathomable wisdom of the Blessed Trinity. The soul of Jesus Christ received these directions at every moment, and acted upon them externally. The Gospel shows in the life of Jesus Christ a succession of these truths; and this same Jesus who lives and works always, continues to live and work in the souls of His saints. If you would live according to the Gospel, abandon yourself simply and entirely to the action of God. Jesus Christ is its supreme mouthpiece. “He was yesterday, is to-day, and will be for ever.” (Hebr. xiii, 8); continuing, not recommencing His life. What He has done is finished; what remains to be done is being carried on at every moment. Each saint receives a share in this divine life, and in each, Jesus Christ is different, although the same in Himself. The life of each saint is the life of Jesus Christ; it is a new gospel. The cheeks of the spouse are compared to beds of flowers, to gardens filled with fragrant blossoms. The divine action is the gardener, admirably arranging the flower beds. This garden resembles no other, for among all the flowers there are no two alike, or that can be described as being of the same species, except in the fidelity with which they respond to the action of the Creator, in leaving Him free to do as He pleases, and, on their side, obeying the laws imposed on them by their nature. Let God act, and let us do what He requires of us; this is the Gospel; this is the general Scripture, and the common law.”
― quote from Abandonment to Divine Providence: The Classic Text with a Spiritual Commentary
“I remembered something from a short story I'd read, about how the girl you want is the girl you see once and then she is nowhere to be found. The girl who does not appear in the crowded room.”
― Helen Oyeyemi, quote from White is for Witching
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