Top 90 Melissa Marr Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Happiness is a choice.”

— Melissa Marr

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

— Melissa Marr

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

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4. “Not Expecting, but hoping. Always hoping.”

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5. “Going backwards is never an option.”

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6. “Life is too short to read books that I’m not enjoying.”

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7. “What does it mean when nightmares dream of peace? When shadows wish for light?”

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8. “Trust your instincts, trust your judgment.”

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9. “Sometimes being human sucks.”

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

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11. “I’m still yours, though. That won’t ever change, Shadow Girl.”

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12. “He looked good, like sin in a suit.”

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13. “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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14. “You’re not weak at all. Wounded, but that’s nothing to be ashamed of.”

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15. “Nature abhors a vacuum... !!”

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16. “I like to read the ending first.”

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17. “Like chaos in a glass cage.”

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18. “And sometimes you meet someone who doesn’t see you any differently if you tell them. That is everything.”

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19. “Chase away sorrow by living.”

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

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22. “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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23. “As if fixing the little errors would made the big stuff manageable.”

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24. “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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25. “Do you like it?” Bananach whispered. “How they want to eat you alive? You took away the last king’s mortal. You make the new king mourn for both his mortals.”

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26. “Will you be my forever, Donia?”

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27. “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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28. “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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29. “Faeries are equally loyal and deceitful.”

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30. “Creative vision creates art” – he motioned around the gallery – “that shows the rest of the world a new angle. That’s a beautiful thing.”

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31. “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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32. “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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33. “The fae were known to stand by their word – their literal word, but still, it was better than humanity, which could be treacherous for so many foolish, selfish reasons.”

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34. “I didn’t drown. I didn’t break.”

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35. “It wasn’t the tattoo that had changed her, had given her repossession of her body. It was her actions, her choices. It was finding the path when it looked like there weren’t any paths to be found.”

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36. “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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37. “I see humanity’s flaws, but I see the goodness too.”

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38. “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.”

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39. “Family isn’t only blood.”

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40. “The Summer King stroked her cheek with his thumb. “Can you offer me your fidelity? Your heart and your body and your companionship for eternity? Do you want my fidelity? Either love me or kiss me goodbye, my Summer Queen.”

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41. “I don’t know what I am, but this isn’t happiness.”

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42. “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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43. “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.”

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

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

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46. “I’d stop anyone from taking that smile from you. I would, if I were allowed.”

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47. “Seth gave her that: a private space to believe in the illusion of normalcy.”

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48. “Discord says it’s a good idea. That’s comforting.”

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49. “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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50. “And he smiled at her, truely smiled- wicked and lovely...”

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