230 Quotes by Melissa de la Cruz

If she wasn’t Mal from the Isle anymore, who was she?

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.

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

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

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

You made a sacrifice. And heaven rewarded you.

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.

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

All his gentleness, all his kindness, all the bright shining gorgeousness of his love, he had always given to someone else.