“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.” IfsWantStillsWould BeTogetherForgetPleasureMinesSummerStrongerCourtMortalsQueensHeatDistractionRejoiceForget Everything Author:Melissa Marr
“It was the only way he knew to protect the court, the faery, and the only mortal who'd ever mattered to him.” WayProtectCourtMortals Author:Melissa Marr
“Mortals are such fragile things. Just tender feelings walking around exposed in their delicate shells...Easy to crush.” FeelingsEasyWalkingMortalsCrushFragileExposedDelicateShellsFragile ThingsWicked LovelyTender Feelings Author:Melissa Marr
“In the end mortals always expired before faeries. They were such finite creatures. Their first heartbeat and breath were but a blink from death. To add the weight of nourishing his insatiable court in a time of peace was to hasten that unconscionably.” FirstsEndsCreaturesWeightBreathsCourtAddMortalsFiniteHeartbeatFaerieBlinkInsatiableExpired Author:Melissa Marr
“I've read Reverend Kirk, in fact. My uncle's library has quite a few books of your people. I have read Mr. Lang's fairy tales as well. (Katherine Rae O'Flaherty) "Books are not the same as reality," Devlin stared at her. "My world is not always kind to mortals.” PeopleWorldWellsKindBookFactsRealityLibraryTalesMortalsFairyFairy TaleUnclesKirkReverends Author:Melissa Marr
“They've been stealing mortals away for centuries, but they can't have you.” CenturyStealingMortals Author:Melissa Marr
“-"You won't like me if I'm cruel." -"I don't like you now." -"We don't lie." -"I'm mortal, Irial. I can lie all I want to.” IfsWantI CanLyingLike YouLike MeMortalsDon't LieI Don't Like YouInk Exchange Author:Melissa Marr
“You are my queen. I’ve spent nine centuries seeking the mortal who would free this court, who would save my best friend’s son, who would save the lives of the rest of the girls who were not you. I’d die before I’d allow harm to you.” He bowed his head.” DiesGirlCenturySonCourtSeekingHarmNineMortalsQueensMy Best Friend Author:Melissa Marr
“Some mortals--like you--are already half in love with death. It is who you are, and I'll not make it harder on you by telling you things you don't need to know. Ask me again when you die. Then I'll tell you everything, anything, nothing.” KnowsNeedsDiesAsksHalfLike YouHarderWho You AreMortalsAsk Me Author:Melissa Marr
“For this mortal I would disobey my queen, abandon my king, the court that has protected me all these years. All of it.” YearsKingsCourtMortalsQueensAbandonProtected Author:Melissa Marr
“If he took her into his arms, he would keep her. He wouldn't let her suffer the way the other mortals had when he'd left them. He would keep her, with his court's permission or without it. Irial wouldn't take her, and Keenan wouldn't stand between them.” IfsWaySufferingLeftArmsCourtMortalsPermission Author:Melissa Marr
“By every mortal standard, the worst faeries in the world were those in the Dark Court. They fed on the baser emotions; they engaged in activities that the other-also amoral-faery courts repudiated. They were also the only ones she truly trusted or understood.” WorldDarkEmotionWorstActivityStandardsUnderstoodCourtMortalsEngagedFedsTrustedFaerie Book:Stopping Time and Old Habits Source: Stopping Time and Old Habits