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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 16cadbf | Villains don't have friends, and neither do their children. Not when you get right down to it. | villains | Melissa de la Cruz | |
| f487869 | Crap. I thought that picture was you.' He pointed. 'That's not me. That's my mother,' Mal said with a sigh. 'Woah, you really do look like her, you know,' Jay said. 'You two could be twins,' Evie agreed. 'That, my friends, is called genetics,' Carlos said with a smile. | humor villains | Melissa de la Cruz | |
| d9c802a | What Mal wanted, more than anything, to be just like her mother. like her. | villains | Melissa de la Cruz | |
| 4f4d6b5 | Let's go. I have a party to throw." And someone to throw it at." | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 7723f28 | Joanna, like her daughters, was neither old nor young, and yet their physical appearances corresponded to their particular talents. Depending on the situation, Freya could be anywhere from sixteen to twenty-three years of age, the first blush of Love, while Ingrid, keeper of the Hearth, looked and acted anywhere from twenty-seven to thirty-five; and since Wisdom came from experience, even if in her heart she might feel like a schoolgirl, Jo.. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 7bc73c8 | 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 | ||
| 610858a | Now tell me the truth," he said. "Why are you doing this?" She cringe from him. "I told you why." "I know you still love me." He smiled. "I can see it in your face." Mimi sneered. "We are with Lucifer now; we have always been false." "I don't believe it for one second," Kingsley whispered, looking into her eyes tenderly." | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 41f19e0 | Before Evie could protest, Mal sighed. "Of course there is. The party of the year. A real rager, didn't you hear?" Mal looked her up and down and shook her head sadly. "Oh, I guess you didn't hear." She mock-winced, looking at Carlos conspiratorially. "Everyone's going to be there." "They are?" Carlos looked confused. "But you only just told me to have it--" He quickly got the message. "Everyone," he agreed. Evie smiled. "Sounds awesome. I .. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 8250d36 | She couldn't imagine how anyone would want to forego the intimate experience of a book--pages whispering between the fingers, hurried glances at the colorful cover before immersing oneself again. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 50f8eec | 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. | love-quotes | Melissa de la Cruz | |
| 508666e | 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 | ||
| 008d4c7 | There was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made. --WILLA CATHER, MY ANTONIA | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 3bfb16a | The Council!" Ingrid yelped. "The oracle doesn't knock," Freya scoffed." | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 5f79e11 | She really did trust Eliza. People made mistakes. She understood that now. And as Happy as she was to be with Ryan again, her friendship with Eliza was just as important. You only met a few kindred spirits in your life, and you had to hold on to the ones you were lucky enough to find. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 8a8eb75 | Hey you." She smiled and traced a finger on his cheek. "Where have you been?" "Right here, always," Jack murmured, kissing her all over her face, her neck. But there was little time for tenderness" | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| fb6b841 | Daughters. They could cut you with a look. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 3920550 | wonder how a country so divided can stand?" "We will only stand if we learn to accept and even embrace each other's differences rather than allow them to divide us. It is a childish fantasy to expect everyone to agree all the time, but how much better to live in a country where one is free to think differently from one's neighbors, and even one's government, without risking life and limb." | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 4bd980b | Too bad there wasn't a Valencia filter to smooth out memories. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 6890e5f | witch. A goddess. Someone not of this earth but not apart from it either. A woman to be loved and feared and adored. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| e914aa9 | 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. | monster | Melissa de la Cruz | |
| 911fec1 | Harry's tub | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 8188d79 | I live because I have to. You will hurt, you will bleed, you will be betrayed as I have been betrayed. You will survive. And you must learn to control your power. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| f2d6fc1 | Oh, wonderful, a president who hates immigrants. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 4acfc80 | You cannot let the darkness overcome the light. | light stolen | Melissa de la Cruz | |
| 1265b5f | Magical | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| d626f00 | Have you ever seen a germ?" Aunt Gertrude asked without waiting for Eliza's reply. "Neither have I, yet I have no doubt they exist, because I have seen their effects on the body. Likewise I have never 'seen' love, yet I have witnessed again and again its transformative effect on human beings." | alexander-hamilton love | Melissa de la Cruz | |
| 442e7bc | 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." | historical-romance | Melissa de la Cruz | |
| 9ce038b | Captain Hook lowered his hand as Smee fired the starting pistol. The race was on! | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 056c102 | 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 | ||
| c78d0d5 | She was magnificent. She wasn't so much a person as an event, a gigantic presence. | Michelle Tea | ||
| 2b0c6ad | She was just so sad. Her whole face hung with it, like sadness was her personal gravity. | Michelle Tea | ||
| befb055 | Am I in an abusive relationship? Because even though Fake Johnny Depp's torments were never physical, they made me feel so completely unhinged that I actually hit myself. Nothing slams the self-esteem like hitting your own freaking self. This was the cycle of violence I found myself in, due in no small part to the heady effects of | Michelle Tea | ||
| 7524aa5 | Ms. Bone has weaved a captivating tale of cat and mouse that will keep the reader turning pages long into the night." Michelle Beattie, author of WHAT A PIRATE DESIRES" | Katherine Bone | ||
| aeb8e64 | Nearly all the queers Michelle knew were fuckups in one way or another. | Michelle Tea | ||
| abb3678 | On the first day of the end of the world, Michelle got out of bed, walked into the kitchen, and smacked some roaches | Michelle Tea | ||
| ecb17de | You can't get lost if you have nowhere to be. | Michelle Tea | ||
| f93a545 | Did anyone think this canon of druggie men were out of control? Only in the most admirable of ways! Out of control like a shaman or a space explorer, like a magician sawing himself in half. Out of control like a poet. | explorer magician men poet shaman space | Michelle Tea | |
| 1164226 | Older Fags and Younger Fags, Like Legally Young. Daddies. Zeus and Ganymede. Ziggy schooled her. Yeah, You Were There, Michelle retorted, On Mount Olympus. You Were Working the Door. You Carded Ganymede. | olympus zeus | Michelle Tea | |
| e782af3 | I don't mind doing awful things as long as somebody else does. I would totally jump off the bridge, thanks for asking. | Michelle Tea | ||
| 8493e7b | The girls Iris went through wound up cracked vases no longer fit for flowers, leaky dust collectors. After Iris, girls left town or started fucking boys. She ruined everyone. | Michelle Tea | ||
| 63225d8 | My parents' work ethic amazed me. How could they put in such long hours, day after day? Part of the reason was to keep the family going - to keep me going. I realized that, although we had different values derived from different cultures and wouldn't agree on certain issues, they were good people, incredible people, and I loved and respected them. | ethic family parents work | Harvey Pekar | |
| c88a07d | I actually took them all on quite handily, although I learned when I came to study the issue that I was completely wrong. I also came to believe that the war on drugs is one of the last vestiges of institutionalized racism in our society. | Harvey Pekar | ||
| bc27671 | I looked at her when she was saying this and I realized that there is absolutely nothing you can say to a person who would feel comfortable suggesting something like that, let alone a direct accusation. | Harvey Pekar | ||
| bdcb266 | Praise from people I respect can get me through times of no money better than money can get me through times of no praise. | Harvey Pekar |