Quotes from Melissa Marr

You say potato; I say potahto...' 'I say integrity; you say deceit.

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

Sometimes being human sucks.

Chase away sorrow by living

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.

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.

Like chaos in a glass cage.

Have you ever tried?' 'No.' 'Then don't tell me I can't.

Keenan was staring at her, too intently for comfort. "I don't know why certain people shine for others. I don't know why you and not someone else." He gently pulled her forward and whispered, "But it's you I think of when I wake each morning. It's your face in my dreams." Aislinn swallowed. That would seem odd even if he were normal . And he wasn't. What he was-unfotunately-was completely serious.

If you get killed. I'm going to be furious." "I love you too. Come On.

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

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

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

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

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

Stab one or two healers, and everyone overreacts.

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.

I told them he'd be able to get you to go out." Rianne folded her winnings and tucked the bills into her blazer pocket. "Look at him." "He's right here, Ri," Carla murmured, shooting Keenan an apologetic look. "We've tried to teach her manners, but..." She shrugged. "It's like housebreaking a dog. If we'd had her when she was a puppy, maybe." Rianne smacked her on the arm, but she was grinning. "Woof, woof.

I'm not bloodthirsty, but...seriously, she killed you. She needs to be dead.

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.

As if fixing the little errors would made the big stuff manageable.

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.

I don't know why certain people shine for others. I don know why you and not someone else

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.