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Melissa de la Cruz
Melissa de la Cruz

Melissa de la Cruz (born September 7, 1971) is an American author known for her young adult and adult fiction. Born in Manila, Philippines, she moved to the United States and graduated from Columbia University. Her works span genres including fantasy, romance, and mystery, with notable series such as Blue Bloods and The Descendants. Her books have sold millions of copies worldwide and been translated into multiple languages. She also worked as a fashion magazine editor, and her writing style blends pop culture elements with social insights. more

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“She nodded... and was about to turn away. Then, as if she thought better of it, she reached out and grabbed his arm. "Jack." "Yes?" "I. . ." she faltered. She knew what she wanted to tell him, but she couldn't bring herself to say the words. It turned out she didn't have to. Jack put a hand to his heart and nodded. "I feel the same way about you.”

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Book:Blue Bloods: Number 1 in series
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“You're punishing him over and over for things that are out of his control. Now, I'm not saying you shouldn't have a fully loaded weapon next to you round the clock. But I think it's time you flipped this little scenario in your head. If you'd been taken by the Capitol, and hijacked, and then tried to kill Peeta, is this the way he would be treating you?" demands Haymitch. I fall silent. It isn't. It isn't how he would be treating me at all. He would be trying to get me back at any cost. Not shutting me out, abandoning me, greeting me with hostility at every turn.”

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Author:Suzanne Collins
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“I know what blood poisoning is, Katniss," says Peeta. "Even if my mother isn't a healer." I'm jolted back in time, to another wound, another set of bandages. "You said that same thing to me in the first Hunger Games. Real or not real?" "Real," he says. "And you risked your life getting the medicine that saved me?" "Real." I shrug. "You were the reason I was alive to do it.”

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Book:Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)
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“You have to remember one life, one death–this one! To enter fully the day, the hour, the moment whether it appears as life or death, whether we catch it on the inbreath or outbreath, requires only a moment, this moment. And along with it all the mindfulness we can muster, and each stage of our ongoing birth, and the confident joy of our inherent luminosity. (24)”

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Author:Stephen Levine
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