822 Quotes by Marissa Meyer

Sometimes the weak must be sacrificed so that the strong may flourish.

The question felt more personal than professional. A father disappointed that his son had broken a promise. And in this case, a broken promise might have gotten him killed.

But what I was really thinking was that you talk about him like...like you talk about a piece of decadent chocolate cake.

Some say it is better to have eaten and lost than never to have eaten at all.

She was smiling as she imagined herself as one more star in the sea of millions, and her body decided it had had enough, and she felt the exact moment when her power source gave up and the hum of electricity extinguished.But she was already vast and bright and endless.

That's very...big of you.

That is the trick of it. You see, Time works differently in Chess.” He pulled out his pocket watch and let it dangle like a pendulum overhis desk. “Sometimes he moves forward and sometimes he moves backward,sometimes he goes fast or slow and sometimes he pauses altogether. But as longas I keep moving, as long as I am always moving in the opposite direction fromTime, he can never find me, and I can never meet my fate.

...the walls have been bleeding for years, and no one else sees it.

She is a rose, Jest. Lovely on the eyes, yes, but such thorns are not to be ignored.