Author: Melissa de la Cruz

Cites

• William Shakespeare (1)
  • IN: Triple Moon (2015) Fantasy, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I was too young that time to value her, / But now I know here: If she be a traitor, / Why, so am I. We still have slept together, / Rose at an instant, learn'd, play'd, eat together, / And wheresoe'er we went, like Juno's swans, / Still we went coupled and inseparable.
    FROM: As You Like It, (1623), Play, UK
• Emily Dickinson (1)
  • IN: The Ring & the Crown (2014) Fantasy, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A half unconscious Queen— / But this time—Adequate—Erect, / With Will to choose, or to reject, / And I choose, just a Crown—
    FROM: I'm ceded—I've stopped being Theirs, (1890), Poem, US
• Beyoncé (1)
  • IN: The Ring & the Crown (2014) Fantasy, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Who run the world? Girls! / Who run this motha? Girls!
    FROM: Run The World (Girls), (2011), Song, US
• Noël Coward (1)
  • IN: The Ring & the Crown (2014) Fantasy, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Everyone's here and frightfully gay; / Nobody cares what people say.
    FROM: I Went to a Marvellous Party, (1939), Song, UK
• Lorde (1)
  • IN: The Ring & the Crown (2014) Fantasy, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Let me be your ruler, / You can call me Queen Bee.
    FROM: Royals, (2013), Song, New Zealand
• Franklin D. Roosevelt (1)
  • IN: Something in Between (2016) Fantasy, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
    FROM: NULL, (1938), Speech, US
• Chuck Palahniuk (1)
  • IN: Something in Between (2016) Fantasy, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here.
    FROM: Choke, (2001), Book, US
• Zinedine Zidane (1)
  • IN: Something in Between (2016) Fantasy, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.
    FROM: NULL, (2004), Interview, NULL
• Lyndon B. Johnson (1)
  • IN: Something in Between (2016) Fantasy, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources–because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.
    FROM: NULL, (1965), Speech, US
• Peter Jackson (1)
  • IN: Gates of Paradise (2013) Fantasy, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Your time will come. You will face the same evil, and you will defeat it.
    FROM: The Fellowship of the Ring, (2001), Film, New Zealand
• Bob Dylan (1)
  • IN: Gates of Paradise (2013) Fantasy, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Knock, knock, knocking on heaven's door.
    FROM: Knockin' on Heaven's Door, (1973), Song, US
• Indigo Girls (1)
  • IN: Gates of Paradise (2013) Fantasy, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Blood and fire are too much for these restless arms to hold.
    FROM: Blood and Fire, (1987), Song, US
• Christina Perri (1)
  • IN: Gates of Paradise (2013) Fantasy, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I learned the live half alive . . .
    FROM: Jar of Hearts, (2011), Song, US
• The Killers (1)
  • IN: Gates of Paradise (2013) Fantasy, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: While everyone's lost, the battle is won.
    FROM: All These Things That I've Done, (2004), Song, US
• Amy Heckerling (1)
  • IN: Birthday Vicious (2014) Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The Haitians need to come to America. But some people are all, "What about the strain on our resources?" Well it's like when I had this garden party for my father's birthday, right? I put R.S.V.P. 'cause it was a sit-down dinner. But some people came that, like, did not R.S.V.P., so I was like totally buggin'. I had to haul ass to the kitchen, redistribute the food, squish in extra place settings, but by the end of the day it was like, the more the merrier! And so, if the government could just get to the kitchen, rearrange some things, we could certainly party with the Haitians. And in conclusion, may I please remind you it does not say R.S.V.P. on the Statue of Liberty! Thank you very much.
    FROM: Clueless, (1995), Film, US
• Katy Perry (1)
  • IN: Birthday Vicious (2014) Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Make it like your birthday every day
    FROM: Birthday, (2013), Song, US
• Rainer Maria Rilke (1)
  • IN: Bloody Valentine (2010) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Loving, for a long while ahead and far on into life, is solitude, a heightened and deepened kind of aloneness for the person who loves.
    FROM: Letters to a Young Poet, (1929), Book, Germany
• Pat Benatar (1)
  • IN: Bloody Valentine (2010) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Love is a battlefield.
    FROM: Love is a battlefield, (1983), Song, US
• Cowboy Junkies (1)
  • IN: Misguided Angel (2010) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Misguided angel hanging over me, Heart like a Gabriel, pure and white as ivory Soul like a Lucifer, black and cold like a piece of lead. Misguided angel, love you till I'm dead.
    FROM: Misguided Angel, (1988), Song, Canada
• Ovid (1)
  • IN: Misguided Angel (2010) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: All things change, nothing perishes.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Italy
• stellastarr (1)
  • IN: Lost in Time (2011) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I tried to say, "I miss you tonight." And they claim you've already died.
    FROM: Lost in Time, (2005), Song, US
• Tennessee Williams (1)
  • IN: Lost in Time (2011) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: What on earth can you do... but catch at whatever comes near you with both your hands, until your fingers are broken?
    FROM: Orpheus Descending, (1957), Song, US
• Emily Brontë (1)
  • IN: Van Alen Legacy (2009) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The murdered do haunt their murderers.
    FROM: Wuthering Heights, (1847), Novel, UK
• Evanescence (1)
  • IN: Van Alen Legacy (2009) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I've been sleeping a thousand years it seems, got to open my eyes to everything...
    FROM: Bring Me to Life, (2003), Song, US
• Michael Page and Robert Ingpen (1)
  • IN: Witches of East End (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It is possible that some Waelcyrgean chose to abandon Valhalla and settle in various parts of the country, where they began a new existence as witches.
    FROM: Encyclopedia of Things that Never Were, (1985), Book, US/Australia