7 Quotes & Sayings By Melissa Grey

Melissa Grey is a freelance writer based in New York City. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, O Magazine, BusinessWeek, and more. Prior to her journalism career, Melissa worked as a legal assistant at a large law firm in San Francisco. She graduated from the University of California Santa Cruz with a degree in English Read more

She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two children.

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Humans make art to remember and be remembered, ” said Caius. “Art is their weapon against forgetting. Melissa Grey
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Dorian's scar itched. It did that when he was agitated, or angry, or experiencing anything one might call emotion. Or when rain was on the horizon, but he didn't think that was entirely relevant to why it was itching now. Melissa Grey
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Her seven-year-old self had decided that stealing books was morally bankrupt, but since the books hadn’t actually left the library–they’d merely been relocated–it wasn’t technically stealing. Echo looked around at her sea of tomes, and a single word came to mind: Tsundoku. It was the Japanese word for letting books pile up without reading them all. Melissa Grey
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But the only thing worse than remembering the feel of Rose in his arms, the softness of her black and white feathers, the sound of her voice when she sang quietly to herself, would be forgetting it. Melissa Grey
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Greatness is not always good. Melissa Grey
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Ala! " Echo sprang to her feet, legs tangled in the sheets. The Ala was here. The Ala had brought food. The Ala was a goddess Melissa Grey