Top 136 Quotes & Sayings by Melissa Marr

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.

I watch comic book movies. Give me 'The Avengers,' give me 'Thor', those are my area. But I don't watch comedies.

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

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.

I eventually realized that good things wouldn't happen to me if I didn't make the right choices.

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.

'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.

Westerns were all daddy liked to watch. Give me some Clint Eastwood, some Charles Bronson, and I was a happy girl. It was our father-daughter bonding.

As a lifelong romance reader, it's always satisfying to get to talk to other romance readers!

I have amazing kids, an amazing husband, a fabulous career, wonderful parents. If I had to go through some rough spots to get to this amazing place, so be it.

They say, 'Write what you know.' What I know isn't cheerleader; it has a little bit of teeth to it.

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.

He didn't slam the door, didn't rage, didn't weep, he simply left.

I'm still yours, though. That won't ever change, Shadow Girl.

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

Happiness is a choice.

He tipped her head up. "Don't give up. Don't leave me before you're even here.

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

Seth: "You're what matters" Ash: "Hold me? If you still want to, I mean." Seth: "Every day, I want to hold you every day. Nothing will ever change that.

Love makes you foolish. It makes you throw every bit of logic away, do stupid things, dangerous things.

Belief is a powerful thing. If you believe you can.

A clear division between good and evil, right and wrong, would simplify everything, but life was rarely simple.

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?

You need to face what you're running from

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

He was an answer to a question she'd forgotten to ask.

He looked good, like sin in a suit.

What does it mean when nightmares dream of peace? When shadows wish for light?

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.

Chase away sorrow by living

Stab one or two healers, and everyone overreacts.

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.

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

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

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

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

Love can give a person strength to break through glamours and magicks.

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.

Like chaos in a glass cage.

Writing is not just the technical act of your fingers on the keyboard. Writing is living.

How was I to know? ... You didn't say anything.""I said lots of things," he corrected gently. "You just didn't hear them.

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

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.

Not Expecting, but hoping. Always hoping

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.

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

-"You won't like me if I'm cruel." -"I don't like you now." -"We don't lie." -"I'm mortal, Irial. I can lie all I want to.

I didn't drown. I didn't break.

Good night, Seth." "So you're running again, then?" One of his boots thudded on the floor. "I'm not running." The other boot hit the floor. "Really?" "Really. It's just—" She stopped; she didn't have anything that would finish that sentence and be honest. "Maybe you should slow down, so I can catch you." He paused, waiting.

Rejoice as summer should...chase away sorrows by living.

Love is a mistake when we're all going to die any day now.

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

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

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

Love ans desire aren't the same