248 Quotes by Melissa Marr

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.

An armed fool could be more dangerous than an experienced shooter.

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.

Absently, she wondered if finding one’s place in the world always felt like this, as if an audible click could be heard.

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.

I survived. Isn’t that what matters?

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.

Had they not wounded her, she’d be inaccessible to him. Had she not resisted the darkness so successfully, she’d not be strong enough to handle what he was about to do to her. She’d been damaged, but not irreparably. Fragmented and strong, the perfect mix for him.

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.