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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e3ca2b8 | 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 | ||
| bde9bde | Who wanted to make lemonade from lemons, when you could make perfectly good lemonade grenades? | fiction humor | Melissa de la Cruz | |
| bf00a33 | That was the problem these days--everything was considered disposable--clothes, cell phones, relationships. | life-changing relationships | Melissa de la Cruz | |
| 71deb8b | And while a pretty face is nice to wake up to, an adoring face is so much more rewarding. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| bd35d75 | Marriage was like the surface of an ocean, seemingly placid and serene above; yet if you weren't careful, seething and raging with underground earthquakes below. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 142c86a | Don't worry my love, we shall have our vengeance. I promise it." -Jack" | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 7a0584a | I take it back! she'd wanted to say . I take everything back. I love you. Let's go away. Just the two of us together. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| bbe7063 | She was very special to me. But I think I'm going to have to get back...so I can. God. So I can kill her. -Dylan | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 51f54a9 | Gemellus, who had loved and worshiped her from afar, she who was in his arms now... | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| eeef9f5 | Eliza had never seen Alex quite so happy and relaxed. She shook her head and laughed at the incongruity of it all: Imagine General Washington's famous aide-de-camp taking the time to stop and admire the birds. "One day, Alex, when you tire of being a soldier, we will spend all of our days just like this, watching birds and taking in the sun, surrounded by children of our own. You'd like that, wouldn't you, my love?" "Eliza, you and the Past.. | historical-romance | Melissa de la Cruz | |
| 2cb9f00 | 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. | villains | Melissa de la Cruz | |
| ffd86ab | books are passports to a deeper knowledge and understanding of the world | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| ad279a4 | I will love you, my English rose, and you will fill my French dreams | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 6ae24fa | Boys. Drau or mortal, they were all the same. | typical | Melissa de la Cruz | |
| 0e373be | Magic is an honor, until it's a shackle. | honor magic prison shackle | Melissa de la Cruz | |
| f580c48 | Once upon a time, during a time after all the happily-ever-afters, and perhaps even after the ever-afters after that, all the evil villains of the world were banished from the United Kingdom of Auradon and imprisoned on the Isle of the Lost. There, underneath a protective dome that kept all manner of enchantment out of their clutches, the terrible, the treacherous, the truly awful, and the severely sinister were cursed to live without the p.. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 94739bc | Nat didn't know what to make of Ryan Wesson-whether she wanted to slap him or kiss him. Slap him, definitely | love melissa-de-la-cruz natasha-kestal ryan-wesson | Melissa de la Cruz | |
| b13768d | And he was right. Because Carlos De Vil's brain, by way of comparison, was almost as big as Cruella De Vil's fur-coat closet. That's what Carlos tried to tell himself, anyway, especially when people were making him run the tombs. His first class today was Weird Science, one he always looked forward to. It was where he'd originally gotten the idea to put his machine together, from the lesson on radio waves. Carlos was not the only top studen.. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 858d16c | It was always gloomy in Mal's room, just as it was always gray and overcast on the island. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| d8a2944 | 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. | always love | Melissa de la Cruz | |
| 4f734e4 | Sounds like that happens to you a lot. Bet your girlfriend wasn't thrilled, though." She wasn't sure why she said it, but it came out before she could think. "Who said I have a girlfriend?" He said, raising his scarred eyebrow. His dark eyes crinkled. "No one," she said. " Well, I don't anymore, if anyone's interested." "Who's interested?" "Are you?" He looked her straight in the eye. "I could ask the same of you," she scoffed. "So what i.. | girlfriend love natasha-kestal ryan-wesson | Melissa de la Cruz | |
| 8a8872a | Magic is an expression of the unlimited capacity of mystery and wonder in the world. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| d4fc8ae | 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? | historical-romance | Melissa de la Cruz | |
| c74e14b | Ingrid dresses more like a librarian than any librarian in the history of libraries. | molly-overbrook | Melissa de la Cruz | |
| 18e1986 | One would think that having grown up broke would make one desperate for financial stability, eager to rest in the economic security of a good job. Rather, it gave me the freedom to take chances. I knew how to get by on next to nothing. | Michelle Tea | ||
| 5a72ee1 | So, go to Paris. If you can't do that, go somewhere. Take a road trip, a train trip, a bus trip if you must. Find a place that reminds you that the world is so much bigger than your heart and whoever broke it this time around. Go hang out by the ocean and trip out on its mammoth ancientness. Offer it your heartache--it's big enough to hold it, to dilute it with all that salt and water, melt it away to nothing. Salt purifies. Take a dunk if .. | Michelle Tea | ||
| 457c6a4 | Our lives make awesome stories, especially if you don't get too attached to the thread of your own narrative. | Michelle Tea | ||
| 2285997 | I wanted her so badly, my heart hung out of my chest like some hound-dog's tongue, pant, pant. | Michelle Tea | ||
| cd4a9fa | Melancholy was a fleshy wave permanently cresting on her face, she had to speak through it when she talked. | Michelle Tea | ||
| dfc929c | This mouth had kissed me so much it had worn its own grooves into my teeth. It was like settling into the armchair that fit exactly the round of your body, only it was incredibly exciting because everything was different now, and it was horribly wrong to be kissing. It would only prolong everything. I sat there in the bus shelter, back up against the glass, hoping the bug would never come. Desperation is the sexiest emotion. | Michelle Tea | ||
| c49563c | To have someone know you so thoroughly and not want you. Is there anything more painful? | Michelle Tea | ||
| 04b2e96 | Coming of queer age in the 1990s, to love queers was to love damage. To love damage was a path to loving yourself. ...Queers do not come out of the minefield of homophobia without scars. We do not live through out families' rejection of us, our stunted life options, the violence we've faced, the ways in which we've violated ourselves for survival, our harmful coping mechanisms, our lifesaving delusions, the altered brain chemistry we have s.. | love pride queer | Michelle Tea | |
| 6cef632 | She kissed her like she'd been stranded on an island, notching each stranded day onto a fallen coconut, slowly losing her mind. She filled Michelle like weather, worked her mouth like a cherry stem being tongued into a knot. | Michelle Tea | ||
| 0200c80 | The messed-up queers Michelle ran with tempted fate daily, were creating a new way to live, new templates for everything - life, death, beauty, aging, art. | Michelle Tea | ||
| ba0a1b0 | Unable to sleep, I clear the untouched mess left in the wake of the inquisition on my own and am in the kitchen burning toast and making tea when Mara descends the stairs at dawn, desultory. The sun fades in through the windows, pale and weak. 'Morning,` I say. 'God is dead.` 'Coffee?` 'Fuck you.` 'Again?` She folds her arms on the counter and lets her head fall. | Michelle Hodkin | ||
| e3f17e6 | He wasn't a man, but a tape recorder, repeating catch phrases and old slogans without any thought to the concepts behind them, a dog stuck in the training of his youth and faithfully executing his tasks long after his master had moved on. | Harvey Pekar | ||
| 05e47d5 | A cluster of houses lay about three miles down this joke of a road, and a hand-painted sign read: WELCOME TO SHIFTERTOWN! POPULATION: FIFTY-TWO SHIFTERS, TWENTY HORSES, FIVE DOGS, AND FIFTEEN CATS. | Jennifer Ashley | ||
| 58f6b43 | But people can't be fixed, especially not men like Mr. McBride. Not in the way you mean. You have to understand, and help him, dear. Not repair him. | Jennifer Ashley | ||
| 7d4732e | Call me Beth, please," she said. "I am no longer Mrs. Ackerley and have become, to our mutual astonishment, your sister." Hart" | Jennifer Ashley | ||
| ea3c271 | Daniel swept Ainsley into a strong hug. "I knew you'd come back. Didn't I say so? Dad!" he bellowed up the stairs as he set Ainsley on her feet. "It's Ainsley!" "He knows, lad". Mac laughed. "I think the whole county knows." | daniel mac | Jennifer Ashley | |
| 95ba6cd | A safe harbor. In the turmoil of her life, she'd known so few of them. | Jennifer Ashley | ||
| 48574f9 | You didn't want Mather to have the bowls, and you didn't want him to have me." He stared a moment. Then he leaned to her, suddenly fierce. "When I saw you, I knew I had to take you away from him. He had no idea what you were worth, just like he can't price the damn bowls. He's a philistine." | Jennifer Ashley | ||
| 9434451 | But she couldn't read Mr. Mackenzie. He didn't let anyone behind his barriers, not easily. But when he did . . . When he did, worlds would unfold. | Jennifer Ashley | ||
| 222f882 | You were going to refuse him?" "Yes." "Why?" " | louisa | Jennifer Ashley |