Top 150 Melissa de la Cruz Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “You cannot let the darkness overcome the light.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

52. “Now that she decided she knew exactly what she wanted –him- she couldn’t wait to break the news. And if he didn’t want her, she could live with that – what she wouldn’t be able to live with was if she never told him.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

53. “Mark my words, Alex. You are a man whose future lies before him for all to marvel at one day. And you, Colonel Hamilton, are mine, and I am yours always.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

54. “It’s difficult to be honorable at your worst moment and to forgive those who do you wrong, to have to battle what comes naturally to you. But that’s what it takes to be a monster living among mortals.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

55. “Who knew that the path to a womans heart was through the soul of an honest man?”

— Melissa de la Cruz

56. “You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

57. “There would never be anything but this. Stolen moments, stolen kisses, a secret oasis.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

58. “You have punished me long enough, you have punished yourself long enough. Return to me. I beg.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

59. “He was like a shooting star you tried to catch with your hands. She would only get burned.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

60. “Villains don’t have friends, and neither do their children. Not when you get right down to it.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

61. “I will love you, my English rose, and you will fill my French dreams.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

62. “Schuyler pulled Oliver close and hugged him tightly. “Thank you,” she whispered. Thank you for loving me enough to let me go.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

63. “Even though you can’t control the things that happen to you, you can control your perspective and your actions. There’s never a moment you can’t choose who you want to be.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

64. “No one – not the law, not a college admissions officer, not your friends, not your teachers or parents or any other people, can define who you are. The only person who can do that is you. Even though you can’t control the things that happen to you, you can control your perspective and your actions. There’s never a moment you can’t choose who you want to be.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

65. “I meant does it hurt when you hide every last shred of your individuality and self worth behind acres of silk and cups of powder and smiles that never, no matter how hard you try, reach your eyes?”

— Melissa de la Cruz

66. “Looking for Narnia? You’re in the wrong universe.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

67. “He had written her reams and reams of letters, as well as a poem that she kept folded in a locket around her neck. Her letters were full of love and anticipation, matching his for enthusiasm and tenderness. He was the luckiest man in the world.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

68. “And Kingsley being Kingsley, he smiled as he pretended to pull the trigger.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

69. “You made a sacrifice. And heaven rewarded you.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

70. “Magic is an honor, until it’s a shackle.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

71. “Pretty clothes are like the colors of a flower’s petals. They tell the bee where to land. After that, it’s what’s inside that holds his interest,” said Peggy, still quoting their mother.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

72. “Humans were not to be toyed with, they were to be respected.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

73. “When their lips met, and their tongues touched, it was like they were kissing in a hundred different places, and her senses were flooded with new sensations and old memoires. He kissed her, and their souls melted into each other in a melody older than time.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

74. “Had pretended to be Abbadon of the Dark, when always he had been working for the Light.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

75. “It was maddening how your best friend could twist the knobs inside of you so much that it hurt.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

76. “He kissed her, and their souls melted into each other in a melody older than time.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

77. “But these aren’t just stories,” she’d said. “They’re whole kingdoms. They’re worlds. They’re perspectives and opinions you can’t offer, from lives you haven’t lived. They’re more valuable than any gold coin, and more important than any state luncheon. I should hope you, as king, would know that!”

— Melissa de la Cruz

78. “There was no such thing as a happy ending, only a happy present.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

79. “I’m up for it. Whatever it is. As long as it means I’ll always be with you.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

80. “Me, crazy?” Mal raised her voice even higher. “How could I not be? I go to school in a graveyard and eat expired scones for breakfast. My own mother sends me to forbidden places like this, because of some old bird and a lost stick,” she scoffed. “There’s nothing you can throw at me that’s worse than what I’ve already got going.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

81. “Too bad there wasn’t a Valencia filter to smooth out memories.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

82. “The stone is called the Rose of Lucifer, or Lucifer’s Bane,” the senator explained with a smile. “Have you heard the story?”

— Melissa de la Cruz

83. “If you think we’ll get in, we’ll get in. It’s all about confidence, trust me.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

84. “We’re the villains you root for in the story.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

85. “You’ve got to stop thinking everyone’s problems can be solved by falling in love.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

86. “Yes, she had seen Alex’s temper flare over his disappointment with a lack of his own regiment to command, but she saw that as merely the fighting spirit of an ambitious and confident leader. Yet, wasn’t that what appealed most to her about him? A spirit and impetuousness that could match her own and challenge her to be better herself in this new democracy? A man who could honor her own values?”

— Melissa de la Cruz

87. “Jane had a sweet, lovely laugh, and hours later Carlos discovered he was still thinking about it.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

88. “Never ever, ever make excuses for a scoundrel.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

89. “Once you start telling people you’re famous, they believe you.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

90. “We’ve been wicked for such a very long time, you know. It does get tiresome after a while.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

91. “Oh, wonderful, a president who hates immigrants.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

92. “Maybe weakness is a strength of a kind.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

93. “It was always gloomy in Mal’s room, just as it was always gray and overcast on the island.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

94. “I don’t trust an organization that would make policy out of fear.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

95. “Rely on your friends, and let their strength carry yours as well.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

96. “Goodness works in mysterious ways. Even in the deepest dark, you’ll find a light to shine your way through.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

97. “A little education, Eliza reckoned, could sometimes be more dangerous than no education at all.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

98. “When she reached the shallow end, Kingsley held out his hand and pulled her up, but she lost her step and fell into his arms, her body crushing momentarily against his.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

99. “One minute you could be getting a smoke in the alley on the Lower East Side with your friends, having drinks and dancing on tables in a popular nightclub. And the next minute, you could be dead.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

100. “Instead of fearing the future, I should live and enjoy the present, she told herself.”

— Melissa de la Cruz