“
While it did smash, breaking a bottle over someone’s head requires a lot more force than movies had led me to believe.
”
”
Amanda Hocking (Hollowland (The Hollows, #1))
“
Can you just saw his arm off while we're here and get me loose? (Amanda)
I could do that, but he needs his more. I'd cut yours off before I did his. (Tate)
Oh, great, what are you, his Igor? (Amanda)
Wrong movie, Igor was Frankenstein's flunky. Renfield is the one you're thinking of, and no, I'm not Renfield. Name's Tate Bennett. Parish coroner. (Tate)
”
”
Sherrilyn Kenyon (Night Pleasures (Dark-Hunter #1))
“
I loved Jack because of every little thing about him. The way he laughed, the way he made me smile, the way he'd stay up until nine in the morning watching zombie movies he'd seen a hundred times, and the way he could never hold a grudge. I loved him because I loved him, not because it was fate or destiny or in my blood, We had chosen each other, and that felt more powerful and more magical.
”
”
Amanda Hocking (Wisdom (My Blood Approves, #4))
“
I'm probably gonna have to buy like a massive entertainment center for all of these movies," Jack said, staring up at his DVD's. It overwhelmed him for a minute, so he sighed, and finally turned back to look at me. I have no idea what he was planning to say, but his jaw fell open and his eyes widened. "Holy Hell.
”
”
Amanda Hocking
“
Dinner and a movie? Forget that. I'd rather have a picnic and a waterfall.
”
”
Amanda Grace
“
Just because you didn't experience sexual attraction didn't mean you didn't you didn't experience romantic feelings. But those romantic feelings didn't look like they did in the movies because, well, Hollywood didn't make movies about ace people. Period. So they could be a little hard to figure out.
”
”
Amanda DeWitt (Aces Wild: A Heist)
“
Of course I’m going to the front door like a stupid chick in a horror movie," he muttered. On his way to the door, he doubled back and grabbed a baseball bat from the closet. "Now I just have to remember not to go outside and ask if anyone is there.
”
”
Amanda Hocking (Tidal (Watersong, #3))
“
The two guys with the Weimaraners did note that Amanda looked a little like the girl in the Twilight movies, if not in the hair and the cheekbones, then in the nose and the forhead and the close-set-eyes, but then they got into an argument over whether said actress was a Kristen or a Kirsten, and I wandered over to the middle-aged woman before it devolved into a Team Edward vs Team Jacob imbroglio
”
”
Dennis Lehane
“
The on-screen depiction of oral sex performed on women has consistently earned movies an NC-17 rating – Blue Valentine, Boys Don’t Cry, and Charlie Countryman are a few that come to mind. The same standard has certainly not been applied to on-screen blow jobs. I often think of 2013s Lovelace, a biopic about the star of the 1972 porn film Deep Throat. This was an entire movie dedicated to fellatio, and to extreme sexual violence, and even that was given a mild R. Sure, let the kids watch a porn star get repeatedly raped, but female desire? No, no, no.
”
”
Amanda Montell (Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language)
“
I always hated watching movies where the couple falls so hard and so fast. I had always thought that was too good to be true. Things like that didn’t happen in real life. But here I was so wrapped up in a guy that I had known for a little over a week.
”
”
Amanda Stone
“
In fact, I suspected it might never be finished. I'd keep writing forever, never quite getting it right, until I was a withered crone and he was a well-preserved movie star, with a house on the Riveria and dozens of linen shirts in varying shades of blue.
”
”
Amanda Sellet (By the Book)
“
horror movies are her favorite, but it’s not because she wants someone to come put their arm around her & protect her during the scary parts. it’s because she likes being frightened by something so much less dangerous than walking alone to her car at night. —a movie could never murder her.
”
”
Amanda Lovelace (Flower Crowns & Fearsome Things)
“
we are the generation
you gave participant
trophies to.
we are the generation
you made wear helmets,
elbow pads, & kneepads.
we are the generation
you gave censored CDs
& PG movies to.
we are the generation
you spent years overprotecting
then threw to the wolves.
now we are the generation
running on nothing but coffee
& three hours of sleep.
we are the generation
working minimum-wage jobs
with college degrees.
we are the generation
making just enough
money to survive.
we are the generation
you didn’t want to see fail
then ensured that we did.
- millennials.
”
”
Amanda Lovelace (The Princess Saves Herself in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #1))
“
The roots of the slasher movie stretch back to Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960), based on Robert Bloch’s book of the same name. While Bloch stated many times that his book was based on the real-life crimes of Ed Gein, far more clippings were found in his files regarding Wisconsin’s infamous children’s entertainer and serial poisoner, Floyd Scriltch. When Hitchcock purchased the rights to Bloch’s book, he also optioned the life rights from the sole survivor of Scriltch’s infamous “Easter Bunny Massacre,” Amanda Cohen. Cohen was instrumental in the detection and capture of Scriltch and paid a heavy price for her bravery. This book is dedicated to her memory.
”
”
Grady Hendrix (The Final Girl Support Group)
“
Is that...the Looney Tunes theme?"
Mer and St. Clair cock their ears.
"Why,yes.I believe it is," St. Clair says.
"I heard 'Love Shack' a few minutes ago," Mer says.
"It's official," I say. "America has finally ruined France."
"So can we go now?" St. Clair holds up a small bag. "I'm done."
"Ooo,what'd you get?" Mer asks. She takes his bag and pulls out a delicate, shimmery scarf. "Is it for Ellie?"
"Shite."
Mer pauses. "You didn't get anything for Ellie?"
"No,it's for Mum.Arrrgh." He rakes a hand through his hair. "Would you mind if we pop over to Sennelier before we go home?" Sennelier is a gorgeous little art supply sore,the kind that makes me wish I had an excuse to buy oil paints and pastels. Mer and I went with Rashmi last weekend. She bought Josh a new sketchbook for Hanukkah.
"Wow.Congratulations,St. Clair," I say. "Winner of today's Sucky Boyfriend award.And I thought Steve was bad-did you see what happened in calc?"
"You mean when Amanda caught him dirty-texting Nicole?" Mer asks. "I thought she was gonna stab him in the neck with her pencil."
"I've been busy," St. Clair says.
I glance at him. "I was just teasing."
"Well,you don't have to be such a bloody git about it."
"I wasn't being a git. I wasnt even being a twat, or a wanker, or any of your other bleeding Briticisms-"
"Piss off." He snatches his bag back from Mer and scowls at me.
"HEY!" Mer says. "It's Christmas. Ho-ho-ho. Deck the halls. Stop fighting."
"We weren't fighting," he and I say together.
She shakes her head. "Come on,St. Clair's right. Let's get out of here. This place gives me the creeps."
"I think it's pretty," I say. "Besides, I'd rather look at ribbons than dead rabbits."
"Not the hares again," St. Clair says. "You're as bad as Rashmi."
We wrestle through the Christmas crowds. "I can see why she was upset! The way they're hung up,like they'd died of nosebleeds. It's horrible. Poor Isis." All of the shops in Paris have outdone themselves with elaborate window displays,and the butcher is no exception. I pass the dead bunnies every time I go to the movies.
"In case you hadn't noticed," he says. "Isis is perfectly alive and well on the sixth floor.
”
”
Stephanie Perkins (Anna and the French Kiss (Anna and the French Kiss, #1))
“
Amanda Werner and several other beautiful, elegant, conically breasted foreign ladies, from unspecified vaguely defined countries, plus a few bucolic co-called humorists, comprised Buster's perpetual core of repeats. Women like Amanda Werner never made movies, never appeared in plays; they lived out their queer, beautiful lives as guests on Buster's unending show, appearing, Isidore had once calculated, as much as seventy hours a week.
”
”
Philip K. Dick
“
Last year we stepped onto an elevator.
We politely asked the white lady behind us
If she could please take the next lift
To continue social distancing.
Her face flared up like a cross in the night.
Are you kidding me? she yelled,
Like we'd just declared
Elevators for us only
Or Yous must enter from the back
Or No yous or dogs allowed
Or We have the right to refuse
Humanity to anyone
Why it's so perturbing for privileged groups to follow
restrictions of place & personhood.
Doing so means for once wearing the chains their power
has shackled on the rest of us.
It is to surrender the one difference that kept them separate & thus superior.
Meanwhile, for generations we've stayed home, [segre] gated, kept out of parks, kept out of playgrounds, kept out of pools, kept out of public spaces, kept out of outside spaces, kept out of outer space, kept out of movie theaters, kept out of malls, kept out of restrooms, kept out of restaurants, kept out of taxis, kept out of buses, kept out of beaches, kept out of ballot boxes, kept out of office, kept out of the army, kept out of the hospitals, kept out of hotels, kept out of clubs, kept out of jobs, kept out of schools, kept out of sports, kept out of streets, kept out of water, kept out of land, kept out of kept in kept from kept behind kept below kept down kept without life.
Some were asked to walk a fraction / of our exclusion for a year & it almost destroyed all they thought they were. Yet here we are. Still walking, still kept.
”
”
Amanda Gorman (Call Us What We Carry)
“
The last week of shooting, we did a scene in which I drag Amanda Wyss, the sexy, blond actress who played Tina, across the ceiling of her bedroom, a sequence that ultimately became one of the most visceral from the entire Nightmare franchise. Tina’s bedroom was constructed as a revolving set, and before Tina and Freddy did their dance of death, Wes did a few POV shots of Nick Corri (aka Rod) staring at the ceiling in disbelief, then we flipped the room, and the floor became the ceiling and the ceiling became the floor and Amanda and I went to work.
As was almost always the case when Freddy was chasing after a nubile young girl possessed by her nightmare, Amanda was clad only in her baby-doll nightie. Wes had a creative camera angle planned that he wanted to try, a POV shot from between Amanda’s legs. Amanda, however, wasn’t in the cameramen’s union and wouldn’t legally be allowed to operate the cemera for the shot. Fortunately, Amy Haitkin, our director of photography’s wife, was our film’s focus puller and a gifted camera operator in her own right. Being a good sport, she peeled off her jeans and volunteered to stand in for Amanda. The makeup crew dapped some fake blood onto her thighs, she lay down on the ground, Jacques handed her the camera, I grabbed her ankles, and Wes called, “Action.”
After I dragged Amy across the floor/ceiling, I spontaneously blew her a kiss with my blood-covered claw; the fake blood on my blades was viscous, so that when I blew her my kiss of death, the blood webbed between my blades formed a bubble, a happy cinematic accident. The image of her pale, slender, blood-covered legs, Freddy looming over her, straddling the supine adolescent girl, knife fingers dripping, was surreal, erotic, and made for one of the most sexually charged shots of the movie. Unfortunately it got left on the cutting-room floor. If Wes had left it in, the MPAA - who always seemed to have it out for Mr. Craven - would definitely have tagged us with an X rating. You win some, you lose some.
”
”
Robert Englund (Hollywood Monster: A Walk Down Elm Street with the Man of Your Dreams)
“
1.
"Ahem. I know you hate Mondays, madam, but you picked the absolutely wrong one to play hooky. Or be sick. Yes, I suppose it's vaguely possible that you are actually sick. Anyway, here we are at lunch, Sadie and I, witnessing total social disorder. Your friend Alexander Bainbridge is sitting at the usual table, but facing the room. Amanda Alstead is sitting at Table One. Or, should I say,sitting more or less on a Phillite senior boy, whose name is unimportant, at Table One. A very nice young lady at the next table over-you know, the one who writes about Mr. Darcy-has just informeed us that Amanda dumpled Alex over the break. On Thanksgiving Day,no less. By e-mail. No telling how much truth is there, but a lot more than a kernal, I would say. We have a large, seven-dollar bag o' movie popcorn here. Thought you'd like to know. Call me.
”
”
Melissa Jensen (The Fine Art of Truth or Dare)
“
Scholars argue that many gay men might unconsciously “learn” the gay voice not only from their communities but also from TV and movies. Since the nineteenth century, gay male characters have had a place in mainstream American entertainment; it’s just that until the 1990s or so they were always in the form of some extreme stereotype, like the wealthy, foppish “pansy” or the hyperintellectual cunning villain. In Do I Sound Gay? David Thorpe explains that growing up, he didn’t have any gay figures to relate to in his community (at least none that were out),* but he knew what gay men sounded like because of a few on-screen archetypes. These included Liberace and Truman Capote, with their nasally affects, as well as sophisticated movie villains like Waldo Lydecker in 1944’s Laura and Addison DeWitt in 1950’s All About Eve, both portrayed as impeccably dressed, acid-tongued dandies.
”
”
Amanda Montell (Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language)
“
As kids got older, the parental involvement that seemed to matter most was different but related. All over the world, parents who discussed movies, books, and current affairs with their kids had teenagers who performed better in reading. Here again, parents who engaged their kids in conversation about things larger than themselves were essentially teaching their kids to become thinking adults. Unlike volunteering in schools, those kinds of parental efforts delivered clear and convincing results, even across different countries and different income levels.
”
”
Amanda Ripley (The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way)
“
The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way, Amanda Ripley explains that around the world the kids whose parents engaged them in conversation about books, movies, and current events scored better on the reading portion of the international PISA test.
”
”
Julie Lythcott-Haims (How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success)
“
It's not that I have something to hide, I have nothing I want you to see
”
”
Anon (movie) - Amanda Seyfried
“
But our great-aunt Tillie was forcing us to watch a string of very bad horror movies, so I had a feeling I wouldn’t get a say in the matter.
”
”
Amanda M. Lee (Friday the Witchteenth (Wicked Witches of the Midwest, #20))
“
You looked like Cinderella running away at midnight. Are you going to turn into a pumpkin?"
"Cinderella didn't turn into a pumpkin, that was her carriage," I said in the automatic way of someone who'd watched every single Disney Princess movie multiple times a child. Maybe this was it, how I could spin it. Princesses ran away.
But queens? Queens stayed to face the facts. And I wasn't a princess. I was a queen.
”
”
Amanda Elliot (Love You a Latke)
“
They might watch American movies, wear American clothes, even read American books but Bush and the Iraq War have made actual American people social lepers; she only has to open her mouth in some places to feel a wave of loathing directed at her. Katie is weary of pointing out that at least half her countrymen detest their President even more than Europe does, but it’s no good.
”
”
Amanda Craig
“
Men this good-looking are only supposed to exist in books or movies. Not real life. Even
”
”
Amanda Maxlyn (What's Left of Me (What's Left of Me, #1))
“
we are the generation you gave participant trophies to. we are the generation you made wear helmets, elbow pads, & kneepads. we are the generation you gave censored CDs & PG movies to. we are the generation you spent years overprotecting then threw to the wolves. now we are the generation running on nothing but coffee & three hours of sleep. we are the generation working minimum-wage jobs with college degrees. we are the generation making just enough money to survive. we are the generation you didn’t want to see fail then ensured that we did.-millennials.
”
”
Amanda Lovelace (The Princess Saves Herself in this One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #1))
“
we are the generation you gave participant trophies to. we are the generation you made wear helmets, elbow pads, & kneepads. we are the generation you gave censored CDs & PG movies to. we are the generation you spent years overprotecting then threw to the wolves. now we are the generation running on nothing but coffee & three hours of sleep. we are the generation working minimum-wage jobs with college degrees. we are the generation making just enough
”
”
Amanda Lovelace (The Princess Saves Herself in this One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #1))
“
Welcome back to the wild (advertisement for a zoo)
Watch movies like they were meant to be seen (advertisement for a movie theater)
”
”
Amanda Gorman (Call Us What We Carry)
“
I could easily admit I was obsessed with chocolate, rom-coms (in any form: book, movie, real life), and yoga.
”
”
Amanda P. Jones
“
horror movies are her favorite,
but it’s not because she wants someone
to come put their arm around her
& protect her during the scary parts.
it’s because she likes being frightened
by something so much less dangerous
than walking alone to her car at night.
—a movie could never murder her.
”
”
Amanda Lovelace (Flower Crowns & Fearsome Things)
“
Seriously, that thing looks like it could be an extra in a monster movie,” Clove said disgustedly.
”
”
Amanda M. Lee (Any Witch Way You Can (Wicked Witches of the Midwest, #1))
“
Teenage girls were so desperate to be needed. None of them actually wanted boyfriends, or high drama, or true pain. They just wanted to feel essential, exposed in some crucial way to the vicissitudes of the world. And so they did things like give blow jobs in movie theaters, cry in public when something tragic happened to strangers across the country, throw themselves into her path in the hallway to ask her how Madison was feeling today. How she was managing. Did Amanda know anything. They just wanted the communal energy of crisis, the sense that they had to yank their best selves from somewhere deep within. They wanted, so very badly, to rise to the occasion.
”
”
Angelica Baker (Our Little Racket)
“
Is it that common to get rid of your spouse, that you can just get a name from someone at the club?” I spoke in a mock imitation of a snooty rich person. “Don’t be coy,” Amanda said. “Who told you about them?” “I can’t…
”
”
Renee Pawlish (This Doesn't Happen In The Movies (Reed Ferguson Mystery, #1))
“
But there is another type of breakup. The kind that's not romantic. The kind that happens between friends. There are no movies made about that. Perhaps because the pain is too deep, too profound to even encapsulate.
”
”
Amanda Jayatissa (You're Invited)