Melissa Marr
Melissa Marr is an American author of young adult urban fantasy novels, born on July 25, 1972, in Pennsylvania.
Marr has worked across several roles connected to writing and education, serving as a teacher and docent in addition to her career as a novelist and comics writer. Writing in English, she has produced work in multiple formats, including novels aimed at younger readers and contributions to comics. Her output spans both children's literature and fiction directed at young adult audiences.
Her notable work includes the novel Wicked Lovely. Beyond her novels, her work as a comics writer demonstrates an engagement with an additional storytelling format. Marr's career encompasses her roles as a novelist, a children's writer, a young adult author, and a comics writer, all conducted in English, situating her within a body of work that draws consistently on fantasy as a genre.
Quotes by Melissa Marr
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Some mortals – like you – are already half in love with death. It is who you are, and I’ll not make it harder on you by telling you things you don’t need to know. Ask me again when you die. Then I’ll tell you everything, anything, nothing.
You’re killing me here, Ash. Good, she said. She’d bend a few rules, but they both knew she wasn’t going to push him beyond where he chose to go. Love wasn’t to be based on trickery. But reminding him what he’s refusing isn’t trickery.
There was nothing wrong with progress, with the evolution of a society, with developments in technology, but when avarice directed progress, the natural order of a community was destroyed.
Were you hoping for a quest? A seemingly impossible task that you could relay to your queen afterward? Would you like to tell her that you found and slayed the dragon for love of her? -Queen Sorcha.
