Melissa Marr Quotes

To heal our wounds, we need courage to face them.

Real pain hurts so bad. When you've gone through something and you've overcome it, you're able to heal other people.

I need to be someone who didn't break because of what I've been through.

I saw his scars - the visible ones-and saw how breaking him had not made him any less beautiful. If anything, he stood stronger, because he'd survived.

All of us heal in time. The strongest are born again. We only keep the scars we choose to keep.

Don't apologize for all the tears you've cried, you've been way too strong now for all your life.

My music is about being strong, even in your vulnerability.

The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born.

I'm not a pitiable creature. It's just that I suffer very eloquently.

You don't have to be a scared person. I've had so many tragedies. I've managed to withstand things that you may think you cannot tolerate. But I have the strength.

The people who are inspiring and strong for me are the ones who acknowledge vulnerabilities.

Strength comes in so many forms. Not just the physical strength, but to understand the emotional strength. To have emotional vulnerability, to show that's not a weakness.

Everyone cries sometimes, Tory. There are some pains that run too deep for even the strongest to take without breaking. I don’t think any less of you for it. (Acheron)

You, sleeping on your bed of nails. Weeping an ocean beyond the pale. Strange, sorrow is your greatest skill. You're suffering from overkill... Choose whether to laugh or to cry. Menace and promise mingle in your eye. Wait, it's only a matter of time. You know everything will be fine... Rain falls down and the seas run high. When you're by my side we can rise above it. Let me dry all the tears inside. On your way you cannot hide from the howling wind and the roaring tide. You might get hurt but your fears will subside when you at last escape from the tears inside.

There's no evidence that vulnerabilty is weakness.

Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.

There are some pains that run too deep for anything to absolve them. The best we can do is pick up the pieces and hope for the strength we need to keep going.

Love didn't make you weak, it made you stronger.

Do you have to make me feel like there's nothing left of me? You can take everything I have, you can break everything I am, like I am made of glass, like I am made of paper.Go on and try to tear me down I will be rising from the ground like a Skyscraper.

Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.

It takes strength to show vulnerability.

It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.

In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold.

Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.

I'd like to be a wounded leading man. Instead of a pillar of strength, I'd be the scared one.