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Evil was seductive and easy, and virtue was difficult and unappreciated.

Melissa de la Cruz

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Melissa de la Cruz
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 7
Author
Novelist
Writer
City of Manila
Unappreciated
Seductive
Virtue
Evil
Difficult
Easy

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Do not cry for me, Azrael. Do not waste your tears. You made your decision. And this is mine. Sacrifice seems to be my destiny. A funny thing for a selfish man, isn't it? They always called me weak back then.
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She can't let him go not telling him what she was about to do. Kingsley...I can't do this. I'm coming with you.
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I don't need anything to get high. I'm high on life.
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You're late, she said, tapping her watch. No, you're just early.
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You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.
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I don’t want to make the same mistakes I’ve made before. I want to be free. I want to be with you. We will be together. I believe I will have less to live for, if I am not with you.
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And Kingsley being Kingsley, he smiled as he pretended to pull the trigger.
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This is not some silly game...This is life and death Angels and demons.
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A picture is worth a thousand texts.
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As an author you hope your characters have sparks but truly in the end they have minds of their own!
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Bonds are made to be broken, he said. Just like rules.
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Kingsley, ever the joker, had his Venator mark tattooed near his unmentionables
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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.
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A promise, a bond, a joy, a love for the ages, for the history books.…But what was love but pain?
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Now that she decided she knew exactly what she wanted –him- she couldn’t wait to break the news. And if he didn’t want her, she could live with that – what she wouldn’t be able to live with was if she never told him.
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He was like a shooting star you tried to catch with your hands. She would only get burned.
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She could not trust herself to hope—but without hope, she realized, she had no reason to go on.
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Time did not mean anything to those who had too much of it, but it was even more precious once it was limited.
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Memories were moving pictures in which meaning was constantly in flux. They were stories people told themselves.
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Popularity was fickle and elusive, like trying to catch fireflies in a jar. You were either born with it or relegated to wallflower status according to your mysterious and unknowable workings of the universe.
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