Top 150 Melissa de la Cruz Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “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

102. “It was so nice just to live in the moment, to enjoy holding him so closely, to pretend for a little while that they were merely two young people in love and nothing else.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

103. “Captain Hook lowered his hand as Smee fired the starting pistol. The race was on!”

— Melissa de la Cruz

104. “If she wasn’t Mal from the Isle anymore, who was she?”

— Melissa de la Cruz

105. “I haven’t paid for anything since I became famous.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

106. “Not that they were there to have fun – although with Kingsley Martin around, fun was never far from the agenda.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

107. “Maybe she’d been drinking too much of the super-sweet Mexican Coca-Cola they had down here. Or maybe she was just tired, alone, and far from home. Because somewhere in the brittle, concrete center of Azrael’s dark heart, something was melting.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

108. “There are families whose greatness lies in their past, and in their legacies, Mrs. Schuyler answered. That is a quality much to be admired, for tradition is what binds us as a society. But there are some families, like some nations, whose greatness is a future development, and that quality, though harder to discern than the prestige of manor houses and coats of arms and titles of rank and office, is no less valuable, if, indeed, not more so.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

109. “It’s a birthday party,” sniffed Mal. “And I wasn’t invited.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

110. “Prove that you are my daughter, prove that you are mine. Prove to me that you are the blood of the dragon. Prove you are worthy of that mark on your skin.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

111. “Carlos never shied from a mission, and if Mal wanted a howler, there was no alternative but to provide one. There was nothing he could do about it, AP Evil Penchant or not. He knew his place on the totem pole. First things first: a party couldn’t be a party without guests. Which meant people. Lots of people. Bodies. Dancing. Talking. Drinking. Eating.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

112. “Ingrid dresses more like a librarian than any librarian in the history of libraries.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

113. “She looked not like a mother in her thirties, but like the girl he had fallen in love with, and he loved her still. She would always be that girl to him, no matter what happened. That was love, after all, the ability to see one’s youthful beloved in the aging stranger with her face. He would always love her, he thought. He was made to love her.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

114. “Jack leaped over the gate, his sword aflame. To vanquish his foe and rescue his love.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

115. “Mimi knew now what she had to do. To save their bond, to save themselves. She had to destroy Schuyler Van Alen.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

116. “They would rampage up and down the island, terrorizing step-granddaughters and traumatizing even the most stalwart goons, and no one.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

117. “They might all be drinking laced Kool-Aid in there, but she had a good head on her shoulders. Things like vampires and past lives and immortality just didn’t exist in the real world. And Schuyler was a card-carrying member of the real world. She didn’t want to check into CrazyTown any time soon.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

118. “As an author you hope your characters have sparks but truly in the end they have minds of their own!”

— Melissa de la Cruz

119. “Kingsley, ever the joker, had his Venator mark tattooed near his unmentionables.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

120. “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

121. “Nat didn’t know what to make of Ryan Wesson-whether she wanted to slap him or kiss him. Slap him, definitely.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

122. “You look beautiful and tragic, just the way a heroine should on the eve of battle. Like Joan of Arc in her silver armor.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

123. “What Mrs. Schuyler is saying,” General Schuyler added, “is that it is the Schuylers who would be honored by a union woth so brilliant and noble a personage as Colonel Hamilton.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

124. “Oliver liked to play the part of disaffected youth, but he liked shopping in SoHo even more.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

125. “Pemberley and I talked to the principal and.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

126. “They each had secrets they were keeping from the other; secrets they were keeping out of love.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

127. “It was true what they said about mothers and sons: it was a special bond, a mutual admiration society.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

128. “Who wanted to make lemonade from lemons, when you could make perfectly good lemon grenades?”

— Melissa de la Cruz

129. “Let’s go. I have a party to throw.” And someone to throw it at.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

130. “For Alex to be enveloped into one of New York State’s blue-ribbon families helped put to bed a lifetime of doubts and depression about his own dubious birthright.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

131. “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

132. “Kingsley did the same, except he also removed his T-shirt, showing off his broad chest, tan and smooth. When had Kingsley had time to work on his tan? Mimi wondered.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

133. “Medicine is a bit like love,” Aunt Gertrude began. “There are the theatrical outer forms gone through by the players-the bandages and injections and extractions, the flowers and love notes and dances-but the real work is always happening out of sight. In here,” she added, tapping herself on the heart.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

134. “I shall love you and give myself up for you, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up”- then Alex looked into Eliza’s shining eyes and added a twist of his own-“and I shall serve you with tenderness and respect, and encourage you to develop the gifts that God has given you.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

135. “Mimi walked out of church, knowing that if she ever saw Jack again, she would have to kill him.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

136. “For some reason, Eliza had always thought Alexander Hamilton would be dark-haired, but he was in fact a ginger.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

137. “Altogether, the first glimpse of his bride-which should have come as no surprise to Alex, standing there looking so lean and handsome himself-nearly brought him to his knees.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

138. “I can’t think of anything I’m not grateful for.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

139. “You could save the kingdom, but you still had to pass Magical History.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

140. “I didn’t accept him, Eliza thought but didn’t say, because he wasn’t you.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

141. “And just like magic, the Isle of the Lost began to form before their eyes, including the hidden and forbidden zones. The Forbidden Fortress appeared, a menacing-looking castle of spiky walls and twisty towers, located on the edge of the island. Right in the middle of Nowhere.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

142. “Be there, or Mal will find you,” he said to his squat little lab partner, Le Fou Deux, as they both dissected a frog that would never turn into a prince in Unnatural Biology class. “Be there, or Mal will find you and ban you from the city streets,” he whispered to the Gastons as they took turns stuffing each other in doomball nets in PE.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

143. “Boys. Drau or mortal, they were all the same.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

144. “Alexander Hamilton, widely reputed to be the most eloquent man in the United States of America, had, for the first time in his life, been rendered speechless.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

145. “Schuyler put a gentle hand on Abbadon’s feathered extensions, feeling the majestic power underneath their silky weight. She had been frightened once, to see him in this light, but now that she saw his terrifying face, she found it beautiful.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

146. “Jack put a hand on his heart and nodded. “I feel the same way about you.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

147. “Strength didn’t have to mean facing danger alone. Strength came from trust, and friendship, and loyalty.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

148. “Alex, is there anything more beautiful than dropping a seed in the earth and then waiting for it to become something perfectly useful?”

— Melissa de la Cruz

149. “But that was the thing about Alex, a nameless orphan from the Caribbean, who had written his way up to General Washington’s side, he was nothing if not determined.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

150. “My aunts taught me that sometimes when the world is too much, when life starts to feel overwhelming, we must strip away what’s unnecessary, seek out the quiet, and listen to the dirt and trees. “All the answers you seek are there, but only if you are willing to hear them.”

— Melissa de la Cruz