“Bet you can't even name one romantic movie you like," she teased.
She felt smug when a few minutes went by and Oliver was still unable to name one romantic movie he could profess to enjoy.
The Empire Strikes Back," Oliver finally declared, tapping his horn at a Prius that wandered over the line.
The Empire Strikes Back? The Star Wars movie? That's not romantic!" Schuyler huffed, fiddling with the air conditioner controls.
Au contraire, my dear, it's very romantic. The last scene, you know, when they're about to put Han in that freezing cryogenic chamber or whatever? Remember?"
Schuyler mmm-hmmmed.
And Leia leans over the ledge and says, 'I love you.'"
That's cheesy, not romatic," Schuyler argued, although she did like that part.
Let me explain. What's romantic is what Han says back. Remember what he says to her? After she says 'I love you'?"
Schuyler grinned. Maybe Oliver had a point. "Han says, 'I know.'"
Exactly," Oliver tapped the wheel. "He doesn't have to say anything so trite as 'I love you." Because that's already understood. And that's romantic.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Revelations
“Even if they end up together, which I highly doubt, given the strength of that particular bond-...-but even if Schuyler still loves him, or thinks she does, it doesn't matter.
Because Jack is going to leave her one day. i know he will. 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 Revelations
“Tonight the world is yours, as am I.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Revelations
“Love. It's so close to hate, it's almost indistinguishable. But this is how it was for the two of them. Love and hate. Life and death. Joy and anguish.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Revelations
“I'm tired of being your best friend. I'm tired of being second best. I won't settle for that anymore. It's all or nothing, Schuyler. You have to decide. Him or me.
- Oliver Hazzard-Perry”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Revelations
“He knew what it was like to love one who did not--or could not--love you back. But he'd had no choice. None of them did.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Revelations
“And Kingsley being Kingsley, he smiled as he pretended to pull the trigger.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Revelations
“HE was standing across the street, staring at her with a look of shock and dismay. One look in Oliver's eyes and she knew he knew. But how? How could he have known? The'd been so careful to keep their love a secret. The grief etched all over his face was too much to bear. Schuyler felt the words catch in her throat as she crossed the stree to stand in front of him. "Ollie...it's not..." Oliver shot her a look of pure hatred, turned on his heel and began to run away. "OLIVER, please,let me explain..”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Revelations
“I don’t want to make the same mistakes I’ve made before. I want to be free. I want to be with you. We will be together. I believe I will have less to live for, if I am not with you.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Revelations
“Love. It's so close to hate, it's almost indistinguishable.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Revelations
“I don't know, I just feel like love isn't supposed to be so...angsty, you know? Like, if it works, it shouldn't be so tortured."
-Oliver”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Revelations
“I was so afraid. I was afraid of losing you."
"Never, my love. We will always be together.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Revelations
“But as they say, love is blind.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Revelations
“I don't know who you are. But I do know that every time I see you, I feel better." -Dylan”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Revelations
“I want to be with you. We will be together. I believe I will have less to live for, if I am not with you."
-Jack”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Revelations
“If you are sorry, you will leave him. Jack will never be yours, Schuyler. Not like I am yours."
-Oliver”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Revelations
“I just want us to be together," he said. "I mean, know it's not possible. But why not? [...] Don't you want us to be together? -Oliver”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Revelations
“...and Schuyler hoped with all her heart that he would never find out the truth.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Revelations
“I can't let you take the risk. I love you too much." -Schuyler
"Then you would rather see me bonded to a women I do not love?"
-Jack”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Revelations
“All his gentleness, all his kindness, all the bright shining gorgeousness of his love, he had always given to someone else.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Revelations
“Once the bond was sealed, it could not be broken for this cycle. Schuyler would become nothing more than a distant memory.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Revelations
“His August Majesty chided the bureaucrats for failing to understand a simple principle: the principle of the second bag. Because the people never revolt just because they have to carry a heavy load, or because of exploitation. They don't know life without exploitation, they don't even know that such a life exists. How can they desire what they cannot imagine? The people will rvolt only when, in a single movement, someone tries to throw a second burden, a second heavy bag, onto their backs. The peasant will fall face down into the mud - and then spring up and grab an ax. He'll grab an ax, my gracious sir, not because he simply can't sustain this new burden - he could carry it - he will rise because he feels that, in throwing the second burden onto his back suddenly and stealthily, you have tried to cheat him, you have treated him like an unthinking animal, you have trampled what remains of his already strangled dignity, taken him for an idiot who doesn't see, feel, or understand. A man doesn't seize an ax in defense of his wallet, but in defense of his dignity, and that, dear sir, is why His Majesty scolded the clerks. For their own convenience and vanity, instead of adding the burden bit by bit, in little bags, they tried to heave a whole big sack on at once.”
― Ryszard Kapuściński, quote from The Emperor
“are for peace. But so long as U.S. imperialism refuses to give up its arrogant and unreasonable demands and its scheme to extend aggression, the only course for the Chinese people is to remain determined to go on fighting side by side with the Korean people. Not”
― Mao Zedong, quote from Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung
“Muschio, il suo respiro;
rose, la sua guancia;
perle, i suoi denti, e una bevanda
che inebria, l'acqua della sua bocca.
La vita, quella di un ramoscello;
le natiche, dune di sabbia inarcate;
tenebra i capelli e il volto
come un disco lunare luminoso.”
― quote from The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights, Volume 1
“It’s like before when there was a huge pile up on the highway, as soon as you got to the point in the traffic jam that you could see the accident, your eyes were glued to the window and you nearly rear ended the guy in front of you so that you can catch a peek at the victims. Sick fucks that we are, we like to witness the suffering of others and say, 'sucks to be them.' We bob our heads to the radio as we open up our engines and tear down the now cleared highway, continuing on with our lives as if we didn’t just witness someone’s spine being scraped off the ground. Come on, you know you’ve done it. Everyone has, and right now is one of those moments.”
― Katelin LaMontagne, quote from Surge
“Gaza Writes Back' provides conclusive evidence that telling stories is an act of life, that telling stories is resistance, and that telling stories shapes our memories.”
― Refaat Alareer, quote from Gaza Writes Back (#1)
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