Melissa Marr Quotes

I'm not going to be in a relationship that I don't fully trust.

If you're a parent, love your children. If you're married, honor your spouse instead of looking on the Internet for love in all the wrong places. I'm talking about real relationships, not false intimacies.

People tell all sorts of lies in order to live. That enables friendships to form and love to blossom.

Look, just stop trying to annihilate yourself, okay? Because if I think you can do it, I'll make Doc pull me out today. Or I'll tell Jared. Just imagine what he would do. I imagined it for her, smiling a little through my tears. Remeber? He said no guarantees about what he would or wouldn't do to keep you here. I though of those buring kisses in the hall...thought of other kisses and other nights in her memory. My face warmed as I blushed. You fight dirty. You bet I do.

I'm not trying to twist people's heads around. I'm not trying to say, "Believe in me."

Love given without free will or truthfulness wasn't love at all.

The only people who make love all the time are liars.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

When you are seeing somebody, then obviously it's a commitment. And if you don't want to commit, then don't be in a relationship. Every relationship deserves a certain credibility and respectability. For me, it's always been like that.

I love being honest and intimate with people. I love building community. I love emailing with readers.

You musn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.

If love means never having to say you're sorry, then marriage means always having to say everything twice.

There's only so far you can take a relationship before you got to get into things that are too serious or over the top.

When you're just shagging girls, you can talk about it, but once it gets real, then you don't.

I think love can be really tough. Because it involves ultimately an honesty to the nth degree that you are capable of. Once said, you've lost your deposit. It's best if you don't say it.

I think marriage and family keeps being written about because that's where we keep our reputations with ourselves - I mean, we can't quite slip the truths we reveal about ourselves at home.

I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it.

That's one of the great lies of intimacy, to pretend you know everything - you cannot. No matter how close you've been, over however many years, there remain secrets. I think we all know that - that you don't tell everybody everything.

Of all the myriad ways we define love, there is perhaps none more honest and powerful than this: Great love is rooted in great partnership.

I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

A good motto is: use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Nothing is inevitable with relationships.

Trust is not about what you can or cannot do in the name of love but who you are and what you choose to reveal as things progress and evolve.

My philosophy of dating is to just fart right away.