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“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, Fragile Eternity

“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, Ink Exchange

“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, Ink Exchange

“Chase away sorrow by living”
― Melissa Marr, Darkest Mercy

“Like chaos in a glass cage.”
― Melissa Marr, Radiant Shadows

“Have you ever tried?'
'No.'
'Then don't tell me I can't.”
― Melissa Marr, Fragile Eternity

“I'd stop anyone from taking that smile from you. I would, if I were allowed.”
― Melissa Marr, Ink Exchange

“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.”
― Melissa Marr, Radiant Shadows

“I don't know why certain people shine for others. I don know why you and not someone else”
― Melissa Marr, Wicked Lovely

“In the end mortals always expired before faeries. They were such finite creatures. Their first heartbeat and breath were but a blink from death. To add the weight of nourishing his insatiable court in a time of peace was to hasten that unconscionably.”
― Melissa Marr, Ink Exchange

“[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.”
― Melissa Marr, Fragile Eternity

“Images cluttered the pages, but one tattoo set her nerves on edge; inky black eyes surrounded by wings likes shadows coalescing.
Mine. The thought, the need,
the reaction was overpowering.
Leslie looked up. "This one." she said. "I need this one.

But the image is more than just tempting art, and it draws her into a world of shadows and desire- into the world of Faerie.”
― Melissa Marr

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

“Like many faeries she knew, he was sculpture-perfect, but instead of being wrought of shadows like those in her court, this faery had a tangled feel to him. Shadow and radiance. He didn‘t look much older than her, until she saw the arrogance in his posture. Then, he reminded her of Irial, of Bananach, of Keenan, of the faeries who walked through courts and crowds confident that they could slaughter everyone in the room. Like chaos in a glass cage.”
― Melissa Marr, Radiant Shadows

“He tipped her head up. "Don't give up. Don't leave me before you're even here.”
― Melissa Marr, Wicked Lovely

“And sometimes you meet someone who doesn't see you any differently if you tell them. That is everything.”
― Melissa Marr, Ink Exchange

“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.”
― Melissa Marr, Wicked Lovely

“The reality was that while they might have eternity, there was violence on the horizon. And in the present. She wasn't intending on ignoring it. She couldn't. But she wasn't going to ignore them either. Just kiss me, ---.”

A look of hesitation crossed his face, but he didn't push her away. He swept her legs from under her and lifted her into his arms. " -Darkest Mercy (p 28)”
― Melissa Marr

“Loving someone meant letting them be who they were, not caging them”
― Melissa Marr, Fragile Eternity

“Pride goeth before the fall....but you've already fallen, haven't you?”
― Melissa Marr, Radiant Shadows

“Belief is a powerful thing. If you believe you can…”
― Melissa Marr, Ink Exchange

“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?”
― Melissa Marr, Faery Tales & Nightmares

“And he was gone before she could think clearly enough to explain that her yes was a Yes, I'll marry you.”
― Melissa Marr, Darkest Mercy

“When I told you I wanted to try, I spoke the truth. When I turned away, it was for my former court, and when I tried to make another faery love me, it was for that court. I’ve lived for my whole life trying to bring the Summer Court back to the strength it once was. In all of those years, in centuries , I’ve only wished myself free of duty because of one reason. You.”
― Melissa Marr, Darkest Mercy

“Love can give a person strength to break through glamours and magicks.”
― Melissa Marr

“A clear division between good and evil, right and wrong, would simplify everything, but life was rarely simple.”
― Melissa Marr, Faery Tales & Nightmares

“I'm mine. Not anyone else's.”
― Melissa Marr, Ink Exchange

“Trust your instincts, trust your judgment.”
― Melissa Marr, Challenge

“-"Leslie? What are you doing?"
-"Choosing. I'm mine. Not anyone else's."
-"I'm still yours, though. That won't ever change, Shadow Girl.”
― Melissa Marr, Ink Exchange

“You need to face what you're running from ”
― Melissa Marr, Ink Exchange