Quotes from Fragile Eternity

Melissa Marr ·  389 pages

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“Just be you-strong and honest. The rest falls into place if you do that. It always has. It always will. Remember that. No matter what happens over the . . . centuries ahead of you, remember to be honest with yourself. And if you fail, forgive yourself. You'll make mistakes. The whole world is new, and they have so many more years in the then you.”
― Melissa Marr, quote from Fragile Eternity


“Choose to be happy. It is what we have all done.”
― Melissa Marr, quote from Fragile Eternity


“Have you ever tried?'
'No.'
'Then don't tell me I can't.”
― Melissa Marr, quote from Fragile Eternity


“Then he kissed her, not just a brush of lips as she'd done, but a kiss a kiss that scalded her tongue. The tree burst into full blooms. The garden fluttered around her. A riot of flowers shot out of the earth. She was mud-covered as he pulled back.”
― Melissa Marr, quote from Fragile Eternity


“As if fixing the little errors would made the big stuff manageable.”
― Melissa Marr, quote from Fragile Eternity



“Tell me i'm not losing more of you to him every fucking day.
-Seth”
― Melissa Marr, quote from Fragile Eternity


“I was thinking it was worth the risk if it meant forever with my faery girlfriend.”
― Melissa Marr, quote from Fragile Eternity


“[Keenan] 'What am I going to do?' He sank to the floor.
[Donia] 'Hope that some of us are kinder to you than you've been to us,' she whispered. Then, before she could soften again, she walked away and left the Summer King kneeling in her foyer.”
― Melissa Marr, quote from Fragile Eternity


“Loving someone meant letting them be who they were, not caging them”
― Melissa Marr, quote from Fragile Eternity


“Were you hoping for a quest? A seemingly impossible task that you could relay to your queen afterward? Would you like to tell her that you found and slayed the dragon for love of her?

-Queen Sorcha”
― Melissa Marr, quote from Fragile Eternity



“I don't know if you realize it or not, but your sudden devotion to her is creepy.”
― Melissa Marr, quote from Fragile Eternity


“I still dream that it was you. No matter how many times I've looked, in my dreams it's always been you who were meant to be my queen.”
― Melissa Marr, quote from Fragile Eternity


“You don't have to do those things. You don't have to become a hero, Seth.”
― Melissa Marr, quote from Fragile Eternity


“But I want to be near you always," he reminded her.

"But you'll lose everyone else, and..."

"I want forever with you." Seth lifted her chin so he was able to look directly into her eyes. "The rest will fall into place if I can be with you.”
― Melissa Marr, quote from Fragile Eternity


“That's what the court needs-a happy king, a king who can't stop dreaming of being lost in someone who wants to be just as lost. Tell me you'll let me get lost in you.”
― Melissa Marr, quote from Fragile Eternity



“This changes nothing. It can't. You are my friend, my king,but that's.... All you can be."

He nodded, but it was a gesture that indicated that he heard her, not that he agreed, which was abundantly clear as he said, "And you are my queen, my savior, my partner---and that's everything.”
― Melissa Marr, quote from Fragile Eternity


“Donia looked away. "I pushed her toward you.I just made a mistake when I let myself think that you'd be mine for a few years... She's your match. I'm not."

"Maybe someday, but right now... I was carried away by the first summer. It's a heady thing, but I can redirect that energy. Let me have the dream of us for as long as we can. That's what the court needs--a happy king, a king who can't stop dreaming of being lost in someone who wants to be just as lost. Tell me you'll let me get lost in you.”
― Melissa Marr, quote from Fragile Eternity


“You already gave me forever, Aislinn. I'm asking for a chance at right now.”
― Melissa Marr, quote from Fragile Eternity


“He leaned in and kissed her softly. "If you're finally going to let yourself love me, we're going to date."

"We sort of have been."

"No." He caught her hands and pulled her into his embrace. "We've been trying very hard not to date. Let me show you our world. Let me take you to dinner and whisper temptations. Let me take you to ridiculous carnival rides and symphonies and dances in the rain. I want you to laugh and smile and trust me first. i want it to be real love if you are in my bed.”
― Melissa Marr, quote from Fragile Eternity


“Love ans desire aren't the same”
― Melissa Marr, quote from Fragile Eternity



“You know its more than that. I know now that it was right that I didn't find my queen all these years. Waiting for you was worth everything that I thought I couldn't endure.”
― Melissa Marr, quote from Fragile Eternity


“I ask to become a faery because I love a faery queen, and because she deserves to have someone who loves her for who she is, not what she is. She needs me. There are people-good people-I love and I'm a liability to them because I'm a mortal. I'm fragile. I'm finine. I am in this world. People I care about, the woman I love, friends in all three of the courts... This is where I belong. I just need you to give me what it takes to stay with them and be strong enough not to fail them.”
― Melissa Marr, quote from Fragile Eternity


“If you were my queen, truly my queen, our court would be stronger still. If you were mine , without mortal distractions, we'd be safer. We'd be stronger if we were truly together. Summer is a time to rejoice in pleasures and heat. When I'm around you, I want to forget everything else. I love Donia. I always will, but when I'm near you--" He stopped himself.”
― Melissa Marr, quote from Fragile Eternity


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