Melissa Marr Quotes

I sat down next to her. Took her hand. This can work, I said. All we have to do is try.

Keep believing. You may be tired, discouraged, but don't give up on your future.

Don't give up! You're too talented. You're too good!

You can't give up on me. If you give up, then I'm going to break into a million pieces. I'm here. I'll give you everything I've got.

Don't give up on your own happy-evers.

my love isn't a weapon, it's a lifeline, reach out and take hold, and don't let go!

When you want it the most, there's no easy way out.When you're ready to go, and your heart's left in doubt. Don't give up on your faith, love comes to those who believe it...And that's the way it is.

One thing I won't do: I won't give up on love.

It's best to let her go," he says. No, no, that's wrong. It's never right to give up on someone.

Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.

If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.

I think invariably when you are dealing with relationships, the films really center on that, and the plot is really born out of that. That's the most core part of a relationship: intimacy, I think, whether it's expressed or not.

How we need another soul to cling to.

Love is a mess, at best, and I figure it can be very real in spite of all the things people try to attach to it.

There is nothing you can control about love.

Family or love or romance, whatever it is, is not restricted to perfect people. If it were, it wouldn't exist. All of that comes out in my work in some way.

Just the notion of falling for someone, that involves weakness.

You need someone to lift your spirits. You need someone to look you in the face and say, "This isn't the end. Don't give up. There is a better place than this. And I'll lead you there.

I looked at other couples and wondered how they could be so calm about it. They held hands as if they weren't even holding hands. When Steve and I held hands, I had to keep looking down to marvel at it. There was my hand, the same hand I've always had - oh, but look! What is it holding? It's holding Steve's hand! Who is Steve? My three-dimensional boyfriend. Each day I wondered what would happen next. What happens when you stop wanting, when you are happy. I supposed I would go on being happy forever. I knew I would not mess things up by growing bored. I had done that once before.

The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own.

Like, really like you. And i want that kiss to have been the start of something. Not the end.

True love is singing karaoke 'under pressure' and letting the other person sing the Freddie Mercury part.

I clench his hands to the point of pain. "Stay with me." His pupils contract to pinpoints, dialate again rapidly, and then return to something resembling normalcy. "Always," he murmurs.

I almost can’t believe I’m going to make myself vulnerable to him again. But what is love but the most extreme and exquisite form of risk perception? I know that relationships don’t last. And yet, with him, the risk of not being with him is much worse than any other hurt I can imagine.