Van Alen Quotes

#1. As long as she could remember who she was, she was okay. She wouldn't go crazy. At least not today.

Melissa De La Cruz

#2. your soul is sunken in that cowardice that bears down many men, turning their course and resolution by imagined perils, as his own shadow turns the frightened horse.

Dante Alighieri

#3. There are always people always asking you for something. But I feel like I have a foundation. I have a supporting cast where it doesn't bother me too much.

LeBron James

#4. She was a stranger in her own life, a tourist in her own body.

Melissa De La Cruz

#5. Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.

Oliver Herford

#6. Before World War II, Modernist architects sometimes had to resort to custom fabrication or outright fakery to achieve the machine imagery advocated by the Bauhaus after its initial, Expressionist, phase. Stucco masqueraded as reinforced concrete; rivets were used for decoration.

Martin Filler

#7. So I quit my job and went to the New England Culinary Institute for the full two years and worked in the restaurant industry after that until finally I thought I had a grasp on what I needed to do what I do.

Alton Brown

#8. Sometimes she was even sure that she had ever really existed.

Melissa De La Cruz

#9. She had an unusual name. She knew that much. It wasn't the kind of name that you found on ceramic coffee mugs at airport gift shops or emblazoned on mini-license plate souvenirs you could hang on your bedroom door after you returned from Disneyland. Her name was pretty and unusual and had meaning.

Melissa De La Cruz

#10. God made man out of nothing, and as long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us.

Martin Luther

#11. Schuyler kept count, thinking that maybe once she hit a magical number, it would stop hurting.

Melissa De La Cruz

#12. But for Jack, the sight of Schuyler Van Alen had only served to ignite a feeling he had been repressing for months.

Melissa De La Cruz

#13. Mimi knew now what she had to do. To save their bond, to save themselves. She had to destroy Schuyler Van Alen.

Melissa De La Cruz

#14. Part of being who you are has to do with feeling your feelings, which means you'll have a wide range of emotions
not just constant sunshiny happiness.

Janet Gonzalez-Mena

#15. Maybe weakness is a strength of a kind.

Melissa De La Cruz

#16. It did not speak well of the power of God, in other words, if He needed a human government to prop him up.

Jon Meacham

#17. It felt as though they were the only people in the world, two young women about to bury the symbol of their helplessness, as if that's all it would take to make them whole again.

Sarah Addison Allen

#18. If you have learnt enjoying life without purpose, like a flowing river, you have learnt the art of living.

Girdhar Joshi

#19. Since when do you look out for me? You really have grown up."
"Had to happen sometime," I say.

Ashley Newell