Melissa de la Cruz Quotes

Sometimes when you involve yourself in so many things, you can't do any of them well - and I like to do everything perfectly.

Must being in love always mean being in pain?

Busyness kills more Christians than bullets.

I'm always aware that I risk being taken for a neurasthenic prima donna when I explain to someone who wants 'just a little' of my time that five minutes of the wrong kind of distraction can ruin a working day.

I have to always make sure I don't stay in one place and spend too much time one subject. I have my wife tell me [through an earpiece], "Come back! You're taking too long on that subject." I need to be reeled in.

Don't confuse activity with productivity. Many people are simply busy being busy.

The happiest folk are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe.

All the time that he can spare from the adornment of his person, he devotes to the neglect of his duties.

The bane of Americans is overwork-and the ruin of any work is a divided interest. Concentrate-concentrate. One thing at a time.

You can't live and write at the same time.

Being busy does not always mean real work.

When I write on Twitter, I do other things: I'm working, grading, or reading, and I'm procrastinating, and I'll pop on Twitter and be like, "Hey, what's up? Yogurt's delicious."

I find that if I use my time well and take care of my mind/body when I'm outside of work, then I feel more supported throughout my day.

My heart has made its mind up And I'm afraid it's you.

One either meets or one works.

You can kill a lot of time if you really want to put your mind to it Or leave it all behind and never really have to go through it

I was tired of men. Hanging in doorways, standing too close, men who made you love them then changed their minds.

I wish I could stop being in love with Sam. I really do.

I love to work, although sometimes I can spend whole days doing nothing more than picking the lint off the carpet and talking to my mother on the phone.

For years, I'd say yes to almost everything, trying to be nice and generous. Feeling obliged to be of service to the world. Maybe also a fear of being forgotten if I don't. But I paid the ultimate price in doing that, because for all those years, I got almost no work done! Some famous authors have written about this: that if they said yes to every request, then they'd never have time to write another book again.

Losing you is most difficult for me, but the nature of my love for you is what matters. If it distorts into half-truth, then perhaps it is better not to love you. I must keep my mind but loose you.

While the work or play is on, it is a lot of fun if while you are doing one you don't constantly feel that you ought to be doing the other.

Two-thirds of my energies go in trying to save one-third for work.

Each thing I do, I rush through, so I can do something else.

I'm not a very organized person for being uber work-obsessed. I struggle to keep it all organized because everything can become important and, when you have so many spinning plates, they sometimes can cancel each other out because you lose track of everything.