Top 100 Melissa Marr Quotes
#1. Rejoice as summer should ... chase away sorrows by living.
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#2. Pride goeth before the fall ... but you've already fallen, haven't you?
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#3. It's okay. You're going to save me, Miss Maylene." The girl gave her a genuine look of happiness. "I know it. I knew if I found you everything would be okay.
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#4. 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.
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#5. I eventually realized that good things wouldn't happen to me if I didn't make the right choices.
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#6. Talking won't change it. But sometimes it was what she wanted most, to tell someone; often, though, she just wanted to escape those horrid feelings, to escape herself, so there was no pain, no fear, no ugliness.
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#7. Mortals are such fragile things. Just tender feelings walking around exposed in their delicate shells ... Easy to crush.
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#8. What would I do without you?"
"You'll never find out.
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#9. 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.
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#10. It was the only way he knew to protect the court, the faery, and the only mortal who'd ever mattered to him.
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#11. 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.
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#12. He didn't slam the door, didn't rage, didn't weep, he simply left.
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#13. Without stopping kissing her, he swept her up into his arms. They stood in the motel lobby kissing until someone called, "Get a room."
Donia pulled back and laughed. "That was the plan. They said no.
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#14. 'Graveminder' is about a mortician, a young woman with commitment issues, a dead teenager, and a town called Claysville where the dead don't always stay dead.
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#15. I'm not happy," she whispered. "I don't know what I am, but this isn't happiness.
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#16. 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.
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#17. 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.
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#18. The problem is, no matter how far or fast you drive, you can't leave yourself behind. And if you can't feel at home in your own head, where can you?
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#19. 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?
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#20. If he took her into his arms, he would keep her. He wouldn't let her suffer the way the other mortals had when he'd left them. He would keep her, with his court's permission or without it. Irial wouldn't take her, and Keenan wouldn't stand between them.
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#21. For this mortal I would disobey my queen, abandon my king, the court that has protected me all these years. All of it.
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#22. Some people worked well with daily discipline, but she'd always been more of a need-a-deadline or consumed-by-vision artist.
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#23. He would, in essence, be the person that he was assigned to embody as his cover - and he'd enjoy it. That was the trick, finding the pleasure in it.
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#24. He'd given her his vow: to take care of her, to keep her from hurt or pain, from wanting for anything. Her leaving didn't negate his promises; they weren't conditional.
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#25. In all of eternity, no faery born has overcome me in anything.'
Aaah. Pride goeth before the fall, my friend"
Irial stood and clasped Devlin's hand
"but you've already fallen, haven't you?'
And to that, Devlin had no answer.
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#26. You are my life now. this"_he waved a hand dismissively around him at the club-"the fey, everything, it all falls into place once you accept me"
-kennan
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#27. But I want to be near you always," he reminded her.
"But you'll lose everyone else, and ... "
"I want forever with you." Seth lifted her chin so he was able to look directly into her eyes. "The rest will fall into place if I can be with you.
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#28. You know its more than that. I know now that it was right that I didn't find my queen all these years. Waiting for you was worth everything that I thought I couldn't endure.
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#29. Discord says it's a good idea. That's comforting.
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#30. What can I give you, Aislinn? Shall I weave flowers into your hair?"
He opened his hand, letting go of her hair. An iris blossom sat in the palm of his hand. "Shall I bring you necklaces of gold? Delicacies mortals can only dream of? I'll do all those things anyway. Don't waste your wish.
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#31. You say potato; I say potahto ... '
'I say integrity; you say deceit.
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#33. If you fail me, I'll kill you. I swear it, Keenan. If you fail me, I'll rip your heart out with my own hands."
"If I fail you, I'll cut it out for you.
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#34. By every mortal standard, the worst faeries in the world were those in the Dark Court. They fed on the baser emotions; they engaged in activities that the other-also amoral-faery courts repudiated. They were also the only ones she truly trusted or understood.
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#35. Cinderella time?' You knw how it is= got to get home before the shoe falls off. No sense tempting any princes
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#36. Then he kissed her, not just a brush of lips as she'd done, but a kiss a kiss that scalded her tongue. The tree burst into full blooms. The garden fluttered around her. A riot of flowers shot out of the earth. She was mud-covered as he pulled back.
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#37. We are what stands between the living and the dead. Being an Undertaker is an honor, son.
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#38. You are the single most amazing person, faery, woman in this world or the other. Because of you, I am a part of this strange new world, have a second mother, and ... eternity. I have almost everything I could want.
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#39. Absently, she wondered if finding one's place in the world always felt like this, as if an audible click could be heard
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#40. Love can give a person strength to break through glamours and magicks.
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#41. I'd stop anyone from taking that smile from you. I would, if I were allowed.
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#42. [Keenan] 'What am I going to do?' He sank to the floor.
[Donia] 'Hope that some of us are kinder to you than you've been to us,' she whispered. Then, before she could soften again, she walked away and left the Summer King kneeling in her foyer.
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#43. She stretched up on her tiptoes, tilted her head, trying to get even closer. Seth slid a hand around her waist and kissed her like she was the air, and he was suffocating. And she forgot about everything: there were no faeries, no Sight, nothing €"just them.
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#46. As a lifelong romance reader, it's always satisfying to get to talk to other romance readers!
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#47. They say, 'Write what you know.' What I know isn't cheerleader; it has a little bit of teeth to it.
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#48. I watch comic book movies. Give me 'The Avengers,' give me 'Thor', those are my area. But I don't watch comedies.
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#49. I was thinking it was worth the risk if it meant forever with my faery girlfriend.
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#50. And he was gone before she could think clearly enough to explain that her yes was a Yes, I'll marry you.
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#52. 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.
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#53. And sometimes you meet someone who doesn't see you any differently if you tell them. That is everything.
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#54. I will keep you safe- from them and from me.
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#55. 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.
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#56. He might be out of her skin, but she'd left him as something other than what he'd been before- not moral, but not strong enough to deserve the title of Dark King.
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#57. What are you going to do? What do you want to do?" she prompted.
"I'm going to go try to help Niall. He's not acting like himself, and I have a theory on what's wrong," he told her. "Then afterward I'm going to ask you to marry me.
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#58. They've been stealing mortals away for centuries, but they can't have you.
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#59. And he smiled at her, truely smiled- wicked and lovely ...
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#60. 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.
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#61. If you get killed. I'm going to be furious."
"I love you too. Come On.
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#62. Whatever this fearlessness, this strength, this difference was, she was starting to like it.
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#63. 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.
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#64. She took a breath, exhaled slowly, and then told him, "If you fail me, I'll kill you. I swear it, Keenan. If you fail me, I'll rip your heart out with my own hands."
"If I fail you, I'll cut it out for you." He stared up at her.
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#65. You're killing me here, Ash. Good, she said. She'd bend a few rules, but they both knew she wasn't going to push him beyond where he chose to go. Love wasn't to be based on trickery. But reminding him what he's refusing isn't trickery.
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#67. As if fixing the little errors would made the big stuff manageable.
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#68. and "good" doesn't mean he's worthy of you , does it ?
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#69. Choose to be happy. It is what we have all done.
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#71. Creative vision creates art" - he motioned around the gallery - "that shows the rest of the world a new angle. That's beautiful thing."
"Or some sort of madness", she said.
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#72. You are the one who gives me reason to wake in the mornings, who infuriates me, who enrages me, who enthralls me. You are my passion, my fury, my soul. Shall i explain further?
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#73. You need to live a little, girl. There's nothing wrong with a little quick love if they're good. I hear he's good.
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#75. A clear division between good and evil, right and wrong, would simplify everything, but life was rarely simple.
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#78. She was afraid, but she couldn't just sit around waiting for someone to save her. She had to try to save herself, try to figure it out.
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#79. It was her choice. In a world where so many choices weren't hers, it was a wonderful thing.
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#80. She might not be bound to him, but she was still his Shadow Girl.
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#81. What is it doing to me? Will the darkness consume me?
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#82. I was very afraid to write a novel - it was a dream for a very long time, and it was one of the few things that I was afraid to try.
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#83. What does it mean when nightmares dream of peace? When shadows wish for light?
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#84. You. I've spent my life waiting for you.' -Keenan
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#85. Maybe the girl would get strong enough to withstand an ink exchange with one of the chosen faeries. If not, he could always give her to one of the weaker fey. It seemed a shame to waste a lovely broken toy.
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#86. You are my queen. I've spent nine centuries seeking the mortal who would free this court, who would save my best friend's son, who would save the lives of the rest of the girls who were not you. I'd die before I'd allow harm to you. He bowed his head.
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#87. It's not just guys like those today. Even the pretty ones can be awful. Don't trust them just because they're pretty.
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#88. Once they take you and you taste the food ... you cannot come back. You are changed ... and live with them for ever. - The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. Evans-Wentz (1911)
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#89. Have you ever tried?'
'No.'
'Then don't tell me I can't.
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#90. I've never loved anyone the way I love you," he whispered.
"Lucky them.
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#91. You're not weak at all. Wounded, but that's nothing to be ashamed of.
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#95. You cannot force me to make my wishes now" She squared her shoulders and looked at him. "I've read texts.
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#96. You don't have to do those things. You don't have to become a hero, Seth.
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#97. He pulled something out of his pocket and tried to stick it in her arm. A needle. He'd offered her hope, but then he was trying to hurt her. Poison. She pushed him away. That wasn't nice.
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#98. She wanted something she didn't have words for- peace, numbness, something.
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#99. But it's not always as set as that. Some things, though, feel like they're right. You and me? It's one of those things. I don't know why they see or why things are such a mess, but in the middle of it all, I do know that being around you is one of tue best things that happened to me in, well, ever.
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#100. I need to check in with Seth before I
" he burrowed his face into the side of her neck, his breath almost painfully warm on her throat
"give in to my unconscionable desire to put my hands on you properly.
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