Melissa Marr famous quotes

Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter.
-- Melissa Marr

#Love #Letting Go #Mean

Chase away sorrow by living
-- Melissa Marr

#Life #Sorrow

He looked good, like sin in a suit.
-- Melissa Marr

#Suits #Sin #Ink Exchange

Just be you-strong and honest. The rest falls into place if you do that. It always has. It always will. Remember that. No matter what happens over the . . . centuries ahead of you, remember to be honest with yourself. And if you fail, forgive yourself. You'll make mistakes. The whole world is new, and they have so many more years in the then you.
-- Melissa Marr

#Strong #Mistake #Fall

I'd stop anyone from taking that smile from you. I would, if I were allowed.
-- Melissa Marr

We are what we are, neither a good or as bad as others paint us. And what we are doesn't change how truly we feel, only how free we are to follow those feelings.
-- Melissa Marr

#Feelings #Paint #Feels

Some mortals--like you--are already half in love with death. It is who you are, and I'll not make it harder on you by telling you things you don't need to know. Ask me again when you die. Then I'll tell you everything, anything, nothing.
-- Melissa Marr

#Half #Needs #Like You

Choose to be happy. It is what we have all done.
-- Melissa Marr

#Philosophy #Done #Choose To Be Happy

Mortals are such fragile things. Just tender feelings walking around exposed in their delicate shells...Easy to crush.
-- Melissa Marr

#Crush #Feelings #Shells

And he smiled at her, truely smiled- wicked and lovely...
-- Melissa Marr

#Lovely #Wicked

Life is too short to read books that I'm not enjoying.
-- Melissa Marr

#Book #Life Is Too Short #Enjoy

His blue-black hair fell over his face when he moved, like tiny arrows pointing to pronounced cheeckbones. "Starting to think you were going to bail on me." "Didn't know you were expecting me," she said in what she hoped was a casual voice. He gets sexier every day. "Not Expecting, but hoping. Always hoping
-- Melissa Marr

#Thinking #Hair #Blue

Leslie?" Irial whispered. "What are you doing?" "Choosing." Tears were soaking the blanket under Leslie's face. "I'm mine. Not anyone else's." "I'm still yours, though. That won't ever change, Shadow Girl." And then he was gone, and her emotions crashed over her.
-- Melissa Marr

#Girl #Shadow #Tears

Catch me, Seth," she invited. He paused. "Faeries chase," he said, an then , with a flirtatious smile, he turned away, but before he could take a second step, she was behind him, arms around him, lips pressed against his neck. "I seem caught," he murmured. The Summer Queen whispered, "Me too." And They fell together in a bed of flowers that now covered the floor
-- Melissa Marr

#Summer #Queens #Flower

I’ve never loved anyone the way I love you,” he whispered. “Lucky them.
-- Melissa Marr

#Love You #Way #Lucky

I still dream that it was you. No matter how many times I've looked, in my dreams it's always been you who were meant to be my queen.
-- Melissa Marr

#Dream #Queens #Matter

Hold me? If you still want to, I mean." She looked away. "Everyday"--then he was there, lifting her into his arms, holding her like she was fragile and precious--"I want to hold you every day. Nothing will ever change that.
-- Melissa Marr

#Mean #Everyday #Want

Not 'Don' in that I-m-sorry-and-now-you'll-forgive-me-like-you-always-do-way. Not this time, Keenan." (Donya)
-- Melissa Marr

#Sorry #Forgive Me #Forgiving

Trust me, you're not my first choice to fight next to, Sunshine, but as as much as it would simplify things, I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I left you to her tender mercies." (Seth to Keenan as he comes to his aid against Bananach)
-- Melissa Marr

#Fighting #Sunshine #Choices

Stab one or two healers, and everyone overreacts.
-- Melissa Marr

#Two #Healer

For this mortal I would disobey my queen, abandon my king, the court that has protected me all these years. All of it.
-- Melissa Marr

#Queens #Kings #Years

This changes nothing. It can't. You are my friend, my king,but that's.... All you can be." He nodded, but it was a gesture that indicated that he heard her, not that he agreed, which was abundantly clear as he said, "And you are my queen, my savior, my partner---and that's everything.
-- Melissa Marr

#Queens #Kings #Gestures

Seth gave her that: a private space to believe in the illusion of normalcy.
-- Melissa Marr

#Believe #Space #Normalcy

Do you ever wonder if what you look at is the same thing everyone else is seeing?' He went even stiller at her side. 'Sometimes I'm sure it isn't the same...but that's not so bad is it? Seeing the world in a different way?' Creative vision creates art' he motioned around the gallery 'that shows the rest of the world a new angle. That's a beautiful thing.
-- Melissa Marr

#Beautiful #Art #Creative

I don't know if you realize it or not, but your sudden devotion to her is creepy.
-- Melissa Marr

#Creepy #Realizing #Devotion

She turned so they were face-to-face and gave him back the words he'd offered her their first night together: "I survived. Isn't that what matters?
-- Melissa Marr

#Night #What Matters #Together

And sometimes you meet someone who doesn't see you any differently if you tell them. That is everything.
-- Melissa Marr

#Sometimes

What would I do without you?" "You'll never find out.
-- Melissa Marr

#Without You

With a strange half-mocking tone, Aislinn said, "It's not just guys like those today. Even the pretty ones can be awful. Don't trust them just because they're pretty." Donia laughed, coldly, sounding every bit Beira's creature in that moment. "Where were you when I needed that advice? I've already gone out with the biggest mistake a girl can make.
-- Melissa Marr

#Girl #Mistake #Guy

Pride goeth before the fall....but you've already fallen, haven't you?
-- Melissa Marr

#Fall #Pride #Fallen

That's what the court needs-a happy king, a king who can't stop dreaming of being lost in someone who wants to be just as lost. Tell me you'll let me get lost in you.
-- Melissa Marr

#Dream #Kings #Needs

Trust your instincts, trust your judgment.
-- Melissa Marr

#Judgment #Instinct #Trust Your Instincts

Faeries are equally loyal and deceitful.
-- Melissa Marr

#Loyal #Deceitful #Faerie

But you didn't need me, did you? You'd already got yourself to safety." "Sometimes, I sleep better knowing you . . . and Niall . . ." She faltered. "Love you from a safe distance," he finished. "Yes.
-- Melissa Marr

#Distance #Love You #Sleep

You're an idiot," she whispered tearfully. Finally, he opened his eyes and stared up at her; by then, she had moved on to stroking his hair and crying. She sat beside him on the edge of the bed, trying very hard not to bump him or let her cold tears fall on his bare chest and arms. For a moment he blinked at her. Then he asked, "Are you dead too?
-- Melissa Marr

#Fall #Eye #Hair

Some things are more important than safety.
-- Melissa Marr

#Safety #Important

You already gave me forever, Aislinn. I'm asking for a chance at right now.
-- Melissa Marr

#Forever #Asking #Chance

As a lifelong romance reader, its always satisfying to get to talk to other romance readers!
-- Melissa Marr

#Romance #Lifelong #Reader

I didn't drown. I didn't break.
-- Melissa Marr

#Break

Over a four-month period, I sat down and wrote every day. And then there was a novel, and all of a sudden, there were agents and offers.
-- Melissa Marr

#Four #Down And #Months

Not Expecting, but hoping. Always hoping
-- Melissa Marr

#Expecting

I was the girl in the black leather jacket with the black fingernails, picked up after school by guys with loud cars and motorcycles. I carried straight-A grades, but I had a little trouble with rules. I tended to have a bit of an authority problem.
-- Melissa Marr

#Girl #School #Car

The world is too fascinating to limit yourself to one path or one sort of people.
-- Melissa Marr

#People #Limits #Path

and "good" doesn't mean he's worthy of you , does it ?
-- Melissa Marr

#Mean #Doe #Worthy

I want to say that I really appreciate that readers are willing to work with my tendency to write in several different genres and for different age groups.
-- Melissa Marr

#Writing #Appreciate #Age

She stepped closer to one of the statues. It looked wide-eyed, almost afraid as she reached out her hand. One of the women reached out and snatched Aislinn's still uplifted hand. "No." The women spoke all at once, not to her or to Keenan, but softly-as if to themselves-in a sibilant whisper. "He's ours. Fair exchange. Not yours to interfere.
-- Melissa Marr

#Hands #Spokes #Stills

It was the only way he knew to protect the court, the faery, and the only mortal who'd ever mattered to him.
-- Melissa Marr

#Way #Court #Protect

I don't know what I am, but this isn't happiness.
-- Melissa Marr