Melissa Marr Quotes

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

Be okay with who you are. And that you can't choose your parents or what life you were born into, but you can choose the kind of person you want to be.

I never going to satisfy everybody, so I decided to satisfy myself.

McCabe's Law: Nobody has to do anything.

If I had children, I would be very selfish. I wouldn't be out doing things. But by not having kids, it makes me freer to travel the world and talk about things I feel are important.

The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

I always felt a weird obligation to be adventurous.

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

I don't cover my face because I want to show my identity.

Every man among you is a free will volunteer. Not one has been invited. No more typical are made of free man who ever marched to meet an enemy.

A degree of silence envelops [George] Washington’s actions; he moved slowly; one might say that he felt charged with future liberty, and that he feared to compromise it. It was not his own destiny that inspired this new species of hero: it was that of his country; he did not allow himself to enjoy what did not belong to him; but from that profound humility what glory emerged! Search the woods where Washington’s sword gleamed: what do you find? Tombs? No; a world! Washington has left the United States behind for a monument on the field of battle.

If I know something's expected of me, I won't wear it or do it. It just seems boring.

If someone comes to me with a script and says, 'Sir, this hero...' I'm like, 'Is there a name, or he is just called a hero?' We are not heroes. Heroes are people fighting for us at the border. We are not heroes; we are just doing our job.

Tis as easy to be heroes as to sit the idle slaves.

My heart was filled with gratitude, with thankfulness, and went out in love to all the heroes, the thinkers who gave their lives for the liberty of hand and brain... to all the wise, the good, the brave of every land, whose thoughts and deeds have given freedom to the sons of men. And then I vowed to grasp the torch that they had held, and hold it high, that light might conquer darkness still.

I do not like giving advice: it is incurring an unnecessary responsibility.

My message to women: Do what makes you feel good, because there'll always be someone who thinks you should do it differently. Whether your choices are hits or misses, at least they're your own.

You don't have to do anything.

It is the hero alone, not the coward, who has liberation within his easy reach.

In the real world there's an after-effect of disappointment if you lose an argument. But if, to begin with, you're set up not to have this particular autonomy, then you're not disappointed.

In this life you have to be your own hero. By that I mean you have to win whatever it is that matters to you by your own strength and in your own way. Like it or not, you are alone in a forest, just like all those fairy tales that begin with a hero who’s usually stupid but somehow brave, or who might be clever, but weak as a straw, and away he goes (don’t worry about the gender), cheered on by nobody, via the castles and the bears, and the old witch and the enchanted stream, and by and by (we hope) he’ll find the treasure.

Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not the villains of our own stories. In fact, it is quite the contrary: we play, and only play, the hero, and in the swirl of other people's stories, insofar as these stories concern us at all, we are never less than heroic.

I believe that discipline and self-love are the total secrets to freedom.

The blood of heroes is closer to the Lord than the ink of scholars and the prayers of the pious.