Melissa Marr Quotes

Fidelity is a gift not a requirement.

Love can do much, but duty more.

I will not betray my country.

I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish to, without the help and support of the woman I love.

How can I do this and leave the clergy, the churches of God, the empire, and all of the people? What will the world think of me? … No my lords, no! I will die here with you.

My plays are ultimately about love, honor, duty, betrayal.

I put family and country first.

Kat looked down at her lemonade. 'Do you think he betrayed the love of his life...because of us?' 'She used the name Romani, Kat,' was Gabrielle's answer. 'And besides...' She let the words draw out. Her gaze went to the distance, and there was a sense of peace in the way she said, 'WE'RE the love of his life.' She raised her glass again. 'To family.

That’s what you do for family. Anything.

You would quit the Order for her? Niko asked, the youngest only behind Dante, and a warrior who relished his duty perhaps even more than Dante had himself. I would quit breathing for her, if she asked it of me.

For this mortal I would disobey my queen, abandon my king, the court that has protected me all these years. All of it.

Consideration of any kind are a crime against the German people and the soldier at the front.

How happy I am to go to the front at last. To do my bit. To prove with my life what I think I feel.

In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.

Patriotism demands of us sustained sacrifice.

Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.

Follow me if I advance, kill me if I retreat, avenge me if I die.

Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.

A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.

For me, 'Lamb' started out as a further exploration of the phenomenon of faith and the responsibility of a messiah that I touched on in 'Coyote Blue' and 'Island of the Sequined Love Nun,' but it ended up being an exploration of the true meaning of sacrifice, loyalty, and friendship.

Love and marriage are wonderful arenas in which to place a character. We are most likely to risk our morals and beliefs while in love. Betrayal gives tremendous insights into a character as well.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

I love my country more than anything. I spent 12 years in the United States Marine Corps. I know what it means to defend this country.