Love & War Quotes

“wonder how a country so divided can stand?” “We will only stand if we learn to accept and even embrace each other’s differences rather than allow them to divide us. It is a childish fantasy to expect everyone to agree all the time, but how much better to live in a country where one is free to think differently from one’s neighbors, and even one’s government, without risking life and limb.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Love & War

“…and whatever flaws and transgressions lay on the rocky road ahead of them, he knew that she was right; They could meet every obstacle and temptation in their path as long as they were by each other’s side, in love and war, failure and victory, poverty and prosperity, until the curtain closed on their story.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Love & War

“But the ability to lead a nation is not a heritable trait like hair color or skin tone. It is a rare skill, indeed, and manifests itself only in persons whose unique combination of temperament, training, and experience have made them capable of seeing past the benefits that they can derive from their country, to the benefits that they can bestow upon that country.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Love & War

“These men know that I go to battle because I believe in the United States of America.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Love & War

“The courts have always attracted gawkers, just as the church has. People are fascinated by the collision of the individual with a force that has the power to convey life or death, liberty or bondage, riches or poverty. Sometimes they had a vested interest in one side or the other, but often it was just the process itself that drew them.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Love & War

“I have no doubt that slavery as an institution will eventually be banished”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Love & War

“Now you’re in for it, Mr. Morris,” Eliza warned proudly. “Mr. Hamilton loves to talk finance.” Alex held up his glass to toast his wife. “To poor Mrs. Hamilton, who has heard me go on about this subject one too many times, I’m afraid.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Love & War

“and the woman who founded New York’s first private orphanage . . .”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Love & War

“A battle command at last! Glory and bloodshed would be in his future! He could hardly wait.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Love & War

“Though he had never said so to anyone other than Laurens, he had often had concerns about Washington’s military savvy.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Love & War

“Lafayette has seven thousand French and American troops in position outside the town to keep Cornwallis’s men from escaping farther inland.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Love & War

“After extensive discussions with General Lafayette and Count de Rochambeau,”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Love & War

“We are of an age when we could have many more bachelor adventures together, and I am almost jealous of her new hold over you.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Love & War

“And, blinking back tears, Eliza turned as quickly as she could so Alex wouldn’t have to see her cry.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Love & War

“But you’d better come home,” she continued. “If you don’t, I will hunt you down and run you through myself.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Love & War

“It appears war and marriage are both more complicated than we realized.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Love & War

“You made your decision on your own. What do you care where I go?”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Love & War

“Were I to die in the service of my country, I would not consider myself a martyr. Just a patriot.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Love & War

“I’d say that in the game of wife-hunting, Colonel Hamilton, you went out looking for a rabbit and bagged yourself a ten-pointed buck.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Love & War

“Satisfactory. I would let you serve at table, if I were not afraid that you might distract my guests from their food.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Love & War

“Very nice,” Alex said. “I think the housekeeper said we were looking for a charwoman to clean the fireplaces. I’ll let her know. Next!”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Love & War

“Be honest: If you had to do it all over again, which of the Schuyler sisters would you propose to, based on tonight’s ensembles?”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Love & War

“You have already stolen my heart, so there is nothing left to shoot’?” Peggy mocked. “And I thought this cherry jam was sweet! Lord preserve us. Preserve us,” she repeated in a heavier voice. “D’you see what I did there?”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Love & War

“Though I confess you have already stolen my heart, so there is nothing left to shoot.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Love & War

“The flag has stood for many a noble cause as well. It remains for each individual American to decide what it means to him or to her,”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Love & War

“and if all else fails, he can always wrap himself in the flag and cry, ‘To war!”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Love & War

“Greed is as old as civilization,”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Love & War

“Even if she does so happen to be our daughter.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Love & War

“Home is wherever we are together.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Love & War

“I do feel like such a country girl sometimes. The idea of living in one of those, what do they call them, town houses? With all those stairs, and the rooms stacked one on top of each other? It sounds so . . . uncomfortable.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Love & War