Top 40 Melissa Grey Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Where flowers bloom, you’ll find your way, through the darkness and the flames, but beware the price that you must pay, for only the worthy will know my name.”

— Melissa Grey

2. “The young always think they’re invincible, right until the moment they learn otherwise. Usually, the hard way.”

— Melissa Grey

3. “One needs only a single match to start a fire.”

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4. “Memories make us who we are,” he said. “Without them, we are nothing.”

— Melissa Grey

5. “Humans make art to remember and be remembered,” said Caius. “Art is their weapon against forgetting.”

— Melissa Grey

6. “Ala!” Echo sprang to her feet, legs tangled in the sheets. The Ala was here. The Ala had brought food. The Ala was a goddess.”

— Melissa Grey

7. “The library was her home. Books didn’t give her dirty looks or whisper snide comments under their breath. Books didn’t judge.”

— Melissa Grey

8. “He sounded so confident, but Echo had a feeling that it was feigned certainty, put on for her benefit. The notion that he was trying to make her feel better, even in a minor way, made the tiny, broken things inside her flutter, as though maybe they were considering gluing themselves back together. She like the way his voice sounded in the dark, soft and low, as if it was meant just for her. She closed her eyes and buried her face in the sheets.”

— Melissa Grey

9. “Every good fairy tale has a kernel of truth to it.”

— Melissa Grey

10. “Dorian, darling,” Jasper said. “What brings you to my humble abode?” Also, please stay, forever and ever, thank you.”

— Melissa Grey

11. “She had gone to the library in search of hope, but what she’d found instead was a child. It would take her many years to realize that the two were not so different.”

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12. “It’s the same nonsense for which all monuments are built: we fought, we bled, we died, and all in the name of glory. And so we perpetuate the legend that all that fighting and bleeding and dying is worth something so that future generations can go on repeating the sins of the past while expecting it to result in anything besides more fighting and bleeding and dying.” It.”

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13. “Besides” – Jasper smiled, teeth pearly white and predatory – “it’ll be a cold day in hell when I complain about having a hot piece like you in my bed.”

— Melissa Grey

14. “Hi, I’m the firebird, you may know me from folklore of various cultures all over the globe. And these are my friends, members of magical species you had no idea existed until twenty-seven seconds ago. We teleported here to fight evil! The.”

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15. “If war had taught him anything, it was that it took the people who deserved long and happy lives and gave them short, brutal ones instead.”

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16. “Warlocks had been human once, but dark magic came with a price, and their humanity had been the cost of their power.”

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17. “You’re a thief, Echo.′ The Ala Squeezed her hand, her grip strong despite her frailty. ‘Steal him back.”

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18. “The girl smiled, and the Ala knew she would not be returning to the Nest alone that day. She had gone to the library in search of hope, but what she’d found instead was a child. It would take her many years to realize that the two were not so different after all.”

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19. “You never quite appreciated the fit of a decent pair of jeans until you didn’t have any that weren’t bloodstained or ripped.”

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20. “But the only thing worse than remembering the feel of Rose in his arms, the softness of her black and white feathers, the sound of her voice when she sang quietly to herself, would be forgetting it.”

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21. “Greatness is not always good.”

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22. “The imagining of chaos was quite different from the reality of it.”

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23. “Her seven-year-old self had decided that stealing books was morally bankrupt, but since the books hadn’t actually left the library – they’d merely been relocated – it wasn’t technically stealing. Echo looked around at her sea of tomes, and a single word came to mind: Tsundoku. It was the Japanese word for letting books pile up without reading them all.”

— Melissa Grey

24. “A magic-wielding psycho with a grudge might have been hot on her heels, but she hadn’t eaten since the slice of cold pizza she’d had for breakfast.”

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25. “His smile was pulled from him, against his will, a hostage of Echo’s charm. He doubted she knew just how charming she was. He thought about telling her, but she seemed like the kind of person on whom compliments were wasted.”

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26. “When in doubt, bravado. Always bravado.”

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27. “Kindness wasn’t a passive quality. It was a choice one had to make, and right then, Ivy didn’t feel much like making it.”

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28. “It would be earth-shatteringly poor manners for you to whip out your sword in my home.” And then, oh sublime horror, Jasper winked. “After all, we’ve only just met.”

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29. “Sometimes,” the Ala said, “when I’m feeling sad, I like to be around all these books. They’re very good at making you forget your troubles. It’s like having a million friends, wrapped in paper and scrawled in ink.”

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30. “Echo looked around at her sea of tomes, and a single word came to mind: tsundoku. It was the Japanese word for letting books pile up without reading them all.”

— Melissa Grey

31. “The was something about churches that she found unsettling. Everything seemed overly concerned with death, as if someone had forgotten that the basis of the religion for which they’d been built was a rebirth.”

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32. “Not the truth, but close enough. Maybe she ought to make that her life motto.”

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33. “Jasper was staring at Dorian, golden eyes guarded but keen. Caius tried to see his friend as Jasper did. Scarred skin impossibly fair. Gray hair with a soft luster that made it look almost silver. A single blue eye, as clear as the sea at morning. Jasper’s nest was a testament to his appreciation of beautiful things, and Dorian was lovely, even with his scars, even if he never recognized it in himself.”

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34. “If Tanith’s insincerity were gold, Caius thought, I’d be a rich man indeed.”

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35. “She was beginning to think that maybe this was what relationships did to people. They hurt and felt good, at the same time.”

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36. “Dorian’s scar itched. It did that when he was agitated, or angry, or experiencing anything one might call emotion. Or when rain was on the horizon, but he didn’t think that was entirely relevant to why it was itching now.”

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37. “Echo glanced at Ivy, who raised her eyebrows in response. That was just what their little group needed-a love triangle between an Avicen, a Drakharin, and a warlock. Because that emotional Chernobyl wasn’t likely to blow up in anyone’s face. Nope. Not at all.”

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38. “Young?” Echo took another look at the date. “This is a hundred years old.” “Youth is a relative concept.”

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39. “There was something monumental about her. He was beginning to understand what drove a certain breed of man to make art. When.”

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40. “If her hormones had a face, she would slap it.”

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41. “But think carefully on it. Names are not a thing to be rushed. There’s power in names.”

— Melissa Grey