Melissa Marr
I want to say that I really appreciate that readers are willing to work with my tendency to write in several different genres and for different age groups.
As a lifelong romance reader, it's always satisfying to get to talk to other romance readers!
Westerns were all daddy liked to watch. Give me some Clint Eastwood, some Charles Bronson, and I was a happy girl. It was our father-daughter bonding.
I watch comic book movies. Give me 'The Avengers,' give me 'Thor', those are my area. But I don't watch comedies.
I eventually realized that good things wouldn't happen to me if I didn't make the right choices.
'Graveminder' is about a mortician, a young woman with commitment issues, a dead teenager, and a town called Claysville where the dead don't always stay dead.
I have amazing kids, an amazing husband, a fabulous career, wonderful parents. If I had to go through some rough spots to get to this amazing place, so be it.
They say, 'Write what you know.' What I know isn't cheerleader; it has a little bit of teeth to it.
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.
I was very afraid to write a novel - it was a dream for a very long time, and it was one of the few things that I was afraid to try.
Over a four-month period, I sat down and wrote every day. And then there was a novel, and all of a sudden, there were agents and offers.
The world is too fascinating to limit yourself to one path or one sort of people.
Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter.Collection: Love
Going backwards is never an option.Collection: Backwards
Rejoice as summer should...chase away sorrows by living.Collection: Summer
You need to face what you're running fromCollection: Running
Chase away sorrow by livingCollection: Life
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.Collection: Feelings
I don't know if you realize it or not, but your sudden devotion to her is creepy.Collection: Creepy
Not Expecting, but hoping. Always hopingCollection: Expecting
What does it mean when nightmares dream of peace? When shadows wish for light?Collection: Dream
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.Collection: Waiting
Life is too short to read books that I'm not enjoying.Collection: Life Is Too Short
Love can give a person strength to break through glamours and magicks.Collection: Break Through
Mortals are such fragile things. Just tender feelings walking around exposed in their delicate shells...Easy to crush.Collection: Crush
Love makes you foolish. It makes you throw every bit of logic away, do stupid things, dangerous things.Collection: Stupid
Just be you-strong and honest. The rest falls into place if you do that. It always has. It always will. Remember that. No matter what happens over the . . . centuries ahead of you, remember to be honest with yourself. And if you fail, forgive yourself. You'll make mistakes. The whole world is new, and they have so many more years in the then you.Collection: Strong
Choose to be happy. It is what we have all done.Collection: Philosophy
I didn't drown. I didn't break.Collection: Break
He looked good, like sin in a suit.Collection: Suits
He was an answer to a question she'd forgotten to ask.Collection: Answers
I'd stop anyone from taking that smile from you. I would, if I were allowed.Collection: Ifs
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.Collection: Needs
And he smiled at her, truely smiled- wicked and lovely.Collection: Lovely
Stab one or two healers, and everyone overreacts.Collection: Two
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 hopingCollection: Thinking
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.Collection: Tattoo
You're not weak at all. Wounded, but that's nothing to be ashamed of.Collection: Weak
Sometimes being human sucks.Collection: Sometimes
How was I to know? ... You didn't say anything.""I said lots of things," he corrected gently. "You just didn't hear them.Collection: Say Anything
What are you going to do? What do you want to do?” she prompted. “I’m going to go try to help Niall. He’s not acting like himself, and I have a theory on what’s wrong,” he told her. “Then afterward I'm going to ask you to marry me.Collection: Trying
But you didn't need me, did you? You'd already got yourself to safety." "Sometimes, I sleep better knowing you . . . and Niall . . ." She faltered. "Love you from a safe distance," he finished. "Yes.Collection: Distance
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.Collection: Summer
Donia asked incredulously. “What were you doing?” “The day had just begun, and we were dancing,” Aislinn said. “Dancing?” Donia looked at the Summer Queen with the same disdain Keenan had once seen on her face when she looked at the Summer Girls. “Of course you were. Bananach is attacking faeries, stealing from our courts. Irial is injured. Faerie is closed. Yes, dancing is precisely what will help.Collection: Girl
I’ve never loved anyone the way I love you,” he whispered. “Lucky them.Collection: Love You
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.Collection: Dream
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.Collection: Dream
Without stopping kissing her, he swept her up into his arms. They stood in the motel lobby kissing until someone called, "Get a room." Donia pulled back and laughed. "That was the plan. They said no.Collection: Kissing
If you fail me, I'll kill you. I swear it, Keenan. If you fail me, I'll rip your heart out with my own hands." "If I fail you, I'll cut it out for you.Collection: Rip
A clear division between good and evil, right and wrong, would simplify everything, but life was rarely simple.Collection: Simple