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The Isle of the Lost

Melissa de la Cruz

Top 10 Best Quotes

“It was the truth, and like any truth, it was powerful.”

“Who wanted to make lemonade from lemons, when you could make perfectly good lemon grenades?”

“But these aren’t just stories,” she’d said. “They’re whole kingdoms. They’re worlds. They’re perspectives and opinions you can’t offer, from lives you haven’t lived. They’re more valuable than any gold coin, and more important than any state luncheon. I should hope you, as king, would know that!”

“It's not fair. It's not our fault. We have no say in our own lives. We're living a fairy tale someone else wrote.”

“We've been wicked for such a very long time, you know. It does get tiresome after a while.”

“Forever as it turns out, is a very long time.”

“By lunchtime, the rest of the school was still talking about last night’s epic howler at Hell Hall, but Mal had no interest. The party was the past; she’d moved on. She had bigger things to worry about now. All she could think about was how her mother wanted the Dragon’s Eye back. And how Maleficent wouldn’t see her as anything other than her father’s daughter—in other words, a pathetic, soft human—until Mal could prove her wrong. Mal kept reliving last night’s conversation over and over, so that she missed her first few classes and sleepwalked through the rest. She arrived for her one-on-one after-school seminar with Lady”

“put it bluntly, Prince Ben, this blows,” said Genie, who”

“It was the truth, and like any truth, it was powerful”

“And just like magic, the Isle of the Lost began to form before their eyes, including the hidden and forbidden zones. The Forbidden Fortress appeared, a menacing-looking castle of spiky walls and twisty towers, located on the edge of the island. Right in the middle of Nowhere.”

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Book Keywords:

villains, wicked, truth, life, unfair, powerful

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