Even if they end up together, which I highly doubt, given the strength of that particular bond-...-but even if Schuyler still loves him, or thinks she does, it doesn't matter. Because Jack is going to leave her one day. I know he will. He's too much for Schuyler. They're wrong for each other. Anyone can see that. And when he leaves her, I'll be there. However long it takes, I'll still be there for her. Waiting.

— Melissa de la Cruz

Every Valentine's Day, the student council sponsored a holiday fundraiser by selling roses that would be delivered in class. The roses came in four colors:white, yellow, red, pink, and the subtleties of their meaning were parsed and analyzed by the female population to no end. Mimi had always understood it thus:white for love, yellow for friendship, red for passion, and pink for a secret crush.

— Melissa de la Cruz

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.

— Melissa de la Cruz

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

— Melissa de la Cruz

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

— Melissa de la Cruz

He had written her reams and reams of letters, as well as a poem that she kept folded in a locket around her neck. Her letters were full of love and anticipation, matching his for enthusiasm and tenderness. He was the luckiest man in the world.

— Melissa de la Cruz

He knew what it was like to love one who did not--or could not--love you back. But he'd had no choice. None of them did.

— Melissa de la Cruz

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

— Melissa de la Cruz

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.

— Melissa de la Cruz

I know you. I know this isn't you. And even if it is, I still love you. As much as I always have. You will always be mine. I will always love you, I promised you that when you left, and it's true now.

— Melissa de la Cruz