Melissa de la Cruz

We__e the villains you root for in the story.

It wasn't a lie, not at all like one of those lies she told herself all the time, like This is the last drink of the evening, or I'm not going to set the bitch's house on fire.

Magic is an honor, until it's a shackle.

Kingsley nodded. 'Of course. Sophia always did say wisdom had to be earned.

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

You cannot let the darkness overcome the light.

Goodness works in mysterious ways. Even in the deepest dark, you__l find a light to shine your way through.

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

Listen, Legs, I'm going to die anyway. I'm human. And I don't know about you, but I don't believe in visions of the future. I believe we choose our own destiny. You didn't give me a choice last time. You just left. But I'm here now. And I love you. Stay with me. Don't fear the future; we'll face it together.

Maybe weakness is a strength of a kind.

You may be to call up the entire encyclopedia, but a brain with no heart and no reasoning .. well, nothing is more meaningless.

If she loved him the way she said she did, she wanted him whole. Maybe this was what love meant after all: sacrifice and selflessness. It did not mean hearts and flowers and a happy ending, but the knowledge that another's well-being is more important than one's own.

It was the truth, and like any truth, it was powerful.

Who wanted to make lemonade from lemons, when you could make perfectly good lemonade grenades?

Don__ touch me. Don__ tell me how beautiful my eyes are, how soft my hair is, how you love to hear my voice. Don__. Don__ pretend you are falling in love with me. I know you are lying, and every word you say hurts even more. Let us just be friends, if we can start there. Can__ we? Can__ we at least be friends? Get to know each other a little? Before the wedding, and the bedding, when I will have to take you as my lord and husband?

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.

You cannot be with someone just because you don__ want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.

I don't need anything to get high. I'm high on life.