230 Quotes by Melissa de la Cruz

Too bad there wasn’t a Valencia filter to smooth out memories.

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

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.

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

I used to write my books at night when I was a freelancer with no children. I used to really work in huge spurts - I could turn around a revision in two weeks, I used to be able to write 10,000 words a day. It's like, 'Wow, what happened to that?' That's just gone.

I was always a sci-fi and fantasy geek. I was in the 'Lord of the Rings' club and all my cool friends made fun of me.

Just because I worked in fashion doesn't mean I didn't go to see 'Underworld' three times!

Once you start telling people you're famous, they believe you.

I haven't paid for anything since I became famous.