Amanda Quotes

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A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.
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Carolyn G. Heilbrun
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I thought only a wooden stake through the heart killed a vampire. (Amanda) A wooden stake through the heart will kill just about anything. And if it doesn't, run like hell. (Kyrian)
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Sherrilyn Kenyon (Night Pleasures (Dark-Hunter #1))
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What are you doing? (Amanda) I'm getting into my car. (Kyrian) You own this?! (Amanda) No. I'm stealing it with the key in my hand. (Kyrian)
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Sherrilyn Kenyon (Night Pleasures (Dark-Hunter #1))
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I don't want only one night. I want all the nights. I want all of you, forever.
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Amanda Hocking (Ascend (Trylle, #3))
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I wanted to be his life preserver, the thing that would keep him afloat. Instead, he became my anchor. And I’m tired of drowning.
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Amanda Grace (But I Love Him)
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repeat after me: you owe no one your forgiveness. - except maybe yourself.
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Amanda Lovelace (The Princess Saves Herself in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #1))
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But even when I stop crying, even when we fall asleep and I'm nestled in his arms, this will leave another scar. No one will see it. No one will know. But it will be there. And eventually all of the scars will have scars, and that's all I'll be--one big scar of a love gone wrong.
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Amanda Grace (But I Love Him)
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What do you do when the one person you want comfort from the most is the one who caused your pain? How can I want so desperately for him to wrap me up in his arms but also want so much for him to leave me alone.
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Amanda Grace (But I Love Him)
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Wendy: Why are you staring at me? Finn: Because you're standing in front of me.
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Amanda Hocking (Switched (Trylle, #1))
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ah, lifeβ€” the thing that happens to us while we’re off somewhere else blowing on dandelions & wishing ourselves into the pages of our favorite fairy tales.
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Amanda Lovelace (The Princess Saves Herself in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #1))
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silence has always been my loudest scream.
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Amanda Lovelace (The Princess Saves Herself in this One)
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Hey, yummy leather guy? Can you hear me? (Amanda)
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Sherrilyn Kenyon (Night Pleasures (Dark-Hunter #1))
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Oh no, no, no! Are you going to suck my blood? (Amanda Do I look like a lawyer to you? (Kyrian)
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Sherrilyn Kenyon (Night Pleasures (Dark-Hunter #1))
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My God. Is there some unwritten law that you guys have to be giants? (Amanda) What can I say? Artemis likes her Dark-Hunters tall. Short men need not apply. (Acheron)
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Sherrilyn Kenyon (Night Pleasures (Dark-Hunter #1))
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I don't care where I come from or who you are. I can make you happy, and you make me happy. We could have a happily ever after.
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Amanda Hocking (Torn (Trylle, #2))
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What is a Dark-Hunter? Is it like the Vampire Slayer? (Amanda) Yes, I'm a small, emaciated teenage girl who struts around fighting vampires in earrings they would rip out of my ears and shove up my ass. (Kyrian)
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Sherrilyn Kenyon (Night Pleasures (Dark-Hunter #1))
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Mark my words, Princess,” Loki said. β€œOne day, you’ll be madly in love with me.
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Amanda Hocking (Ascend (Trylle, #3))
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Finn: I look at you because I can't look away Wendy. Wendy: That's kinda creepy. Finn: I will work on being less creepy then.
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Amanda Hocking (Switched (Trylle, #1))
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once upon a time, the princess rose from the ashes her dragon lovers made of her & crowned herself the mother-fucking queen of herself. Β  - how’s that for a happily ever after?
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Amanda Lovelace (The Princess Saves Herself in this One)
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I haven't fought with anyone else in over two thousand years. (Kyrian) Well, you're never too old to learn. (Amanda) You can't teach an old dog new tricks. (Kyrian) There's no time like the present. (Amanda) Time is of the essence. (Kyrian) God helps those who help themselves. (Amanda) You're not going to let me win this, are you? (Kyrian)
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Sherrilyn Kenyon (Night Pleasures (Dark-Hunter #1))
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Princess." He smiled up at me, but it was weak. "If i'd known that this is what it would take to get you to hold me, I would've collapsed a long time ago.
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Amanda Hocking (Ascend (Trylle, #3))
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Everything’s not exactly the way it seems ” I said. β€œIt seemed like you had your tongue down his throat ” Finn glared at us both. β€œWell then everything is exactly as it seems ” Loki said glibly.
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Amanda Hocking (Ascend (Trylle, #3))
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You like being vague, don't you? (Amanda) It was a choice of being a Dark-Hunter or a prophet. Personally I like the slash-and-kill stuff much more than prayers and the lotus position. (Acheron)
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Sherrilyn Kenyon (Night Pleasures (Dark-Hunter #1))
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i’m not scared of the monsters hidden underneath my bed. i’m much more scared of the boys with messy brown hair, sleepy eyes, & mouths that only know how to form half-truths.
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Amanda Lovelace (The Princess Saves Herself in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #1))
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Everything I went through," he said. "For you. It was worth it.
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Amanda Hocking (Ascend (Trylle, #3))
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Did you think you could treat me like shit at a dance, then sneak into my room in the middle of the night and tell me that I'm a troll with magical powers, and I'd just be like, yeah, that sounds right.
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Amanda Hocking (Switched (Trylle, #1))
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You should get married more often," Loki teased. "It makes you feisty.
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Amanda Hocking (Ascend (Trylle, #3))
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When something is important to you, you make sure its safe.
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Amanda Hocking (Switched (Trylle, #1))
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So you're the infamous Acheron. (Amanda) Lord and Master of the great barbarian horde that roams the night. (Acheron)
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Sherrilyn Kenyon (Night Pleasures (Dark-Hunter #1))
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The surest way to hurt yourself is to give up on love, just because it didn’t work out the first time.
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Amanda Howells (The Summer of Skinny Dipping (Summer, #1))
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Wendy!” Finn shouted pulling me from my moment with Loki. β€œWhat are you doing? You’re married. And not to him.” β€œNothing slips by you does it.” Loki asked.
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Amanda Hocking (Ascend (Trylle, #3))
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And I have two eyes. I’ve seen that little melodrama play out between you and that other tracker. Fish? Flounder? What’s his name?
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Amanda Hocking (Torn (Trylle, #2))
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women don't endure simply because we can; no, women endure because we aren't given any other choice. - they wanted us weak but forced us to be strong.
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Amanda Lovelace (The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #2))
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that is what abuse is: knowing you are going to get salt but still hoping for sugar for nineteen years. Β  -
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Amanda Lovelace (The Princess Saves Herself in this One)
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the only thing required to be a woman is to identify as one. - period, end of story.
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Amanda Lovelace (The Princess Saves Herself in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #1))
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What's your angle?" I asked, trying to sound more playful than demanding. "Isosceles," Jack quipped.
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Amanda Hocking (My Blood Approves (My Blood Approves, #1))
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I don’t know. After the downstairs, I assumed something creepier and dirtier.” I shrugged. β€œYou didn’t have electricity down there.” β€œIt’s for dramatic effect.” Loki gestured widely. β€œIt’s a dungeon.
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Amanda Hocking (Torn (Trylle, #2))
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She whispered a verse by Amanda Hamilton: You came again, blinding my eyes like the shimmer of sun upon the sea. Just as I feel free the moon casts your face upon the sill. Each time I forget you your eyes haunt my heart and it falls still. And so farewell until the next time you come, until at last I do not see you.
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Delia Owens (Where the Crawdads Sing)
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i’m pretty sure you have s t a r d u s t running through those v e i n s. Β  - women are some kind of magic.
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Amanda Lovelace (The Princess Saves Herself in this One)
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if i ever have a daughter, the first thing i will teach her to love will be the word β€œno” & i will not let her feel guilty for using it. Β  - β€œno” is short for β€œfuck off.” Β 
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Amanda Lovelace (The Princess Saves Herself in this One)
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I don't need love or a man to complete me,and someday, you'll find that true for yourself. Suitors will come and go, but you will remain.
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Amanda Hocking
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fiction: the ocean i dive headfirst into when i can no longer breathe in reality. - a mermaid escapist II.
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Amanda Lovelace (The Princess Saves Herself in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #1))
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Being liked for the way you looked is worse than not being liked at all.
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Amanda Hocking (My Blood Approves (My Blood Approves, #1))
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Can I cut off your head?" "Are you asking for my permission?
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Amanda Hocking (Ascend (Trylle, #3))
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the princess locked herself away in the highest tower, hoping a knight in shining armor would come to her rescue. Β  - i didn’t realize i could be my own knight.
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Amanda Lovelace (The Princess Saves Herself in this One)
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Right then, it didn't matter what his reasons were. All I knew that I was sick of him breaking my heart.
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Amanda Hocking (Torn (Trylle, #2))
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This is the way the world ends; not with a bang or a whimper, but with zombies breaking down the back door.
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Amanda Hocking (Hollowland (The Hollows, #1))
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sticks & stones never broke my bones, but words made me starve myself until you could see all of them. Β  -
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Amanda Lovelace (The Princess Saves Herself in this One)
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When you dance with the devil, the devil doesn't change. The devil changes you.
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Amanda Hocking (My Blood Approves (My Blood Approves, #1))
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The only clothes Amanda has are the ones on her back. (Kyrian) From what I saw, she had no clothes whatsoever on her back. Her front neither. (Nick) One day, Gaitor bait... (Kyrian) Note to self- be nice to woman, keep mouth shut. (Nick)
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Sherrilyn Kenyon (Night Pleasures (Dark-Hunter #1))
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Asking for help with shame says: You have the power over me. Asking with condescension says: I have the power over you. But asking for help with gratitude says: We have the power to help each other.
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Amanda Palmer (The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help)
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What I told you before is still true. I want to know that when you're with me, it's because you want to be, not because you have to be.
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Amanda Hocking (Torn (Trylle, #2))
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You actually enjoyed that, didn't you? (Amanda) Oh, hell yes! Did you see the look on their faces? Man, I love this car. (Kyrian) (She looked up at the sky and implored divine aid.) Dear God, please separate me from this maniac before I die of fright. (Amanda)
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Sherrilyn Kenyon (Night Pleasures (Dark-Hunter #1))
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all of the oceans & galaxies did not conspire together to create me just so i could reproduce for you. -Startling Fact #1
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Amanda Lovelace (The Princess Saves Herself in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #1))
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he opened me up like a book & poured the poetry back into me. -my personal pen and paper
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Amanda Lovelace (The Princess Saves Herself in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #1))
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Sometimes it seems to me that that’s all my life has been, a series of things that I loved deeply that I could never have.
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Amanda Hocking (Ascend (Trylle, #3))
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Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.
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Carolyn G. Heilbrun (Death in a Tenured Position (A Kate Fansler Mystery #6))
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I predict a long reign ahead of you. Years of being referred to as Your Majesty, Your Grace, Your Excellence, My Liege, My Queen, My Lovely.” β€œI don’t think that last one is a formal title,” I said. β€œIt should be.
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Amanda Hocking (Ascend (Trylle, #3))
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It's not fair. It's not fair that he lets his rage take over, that he lets it rule him. I don't know why he has to let it rule him. I don't know why he has to be two people. I don't know why he gets to be two people, and I only get to be me, the one who is here to take what he has to give, and who is here to pick pu the pieces afterward.
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Amanda Grace (But I Love Him)
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There's a cough behind me, and I find Cheeseburger staring anxiously at my box. I glare at Amanda, the Arm-Toucher, and pull out an entire sleeve of Thin Mints. "Here you go, Cheeseburger." He looks at me in surprise, but then again, that's how he always looks. "Wow. Thanks Anna." Cheeseburger takes the cookies and lumbers toward the stairwell. Josh is horrified. "Whyareyougivingawaythecookies?
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Stephanie Perkins (Anna and the French Kiss (Anna and the French Kiss, #1))
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There is always light. Only if we are brave enough to see it. There is always light. Only if we are brave enough to be it.
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Amanda Gorman
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Oh yeah. That's why. Like a fairy tale. I was marrying the Prince. I just happened to be in love with the pauper.
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Amanda Hocking (Torn (Trylle, #2))
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When I had no friends I reached inside my beloved books & sculpted some out of 12 pt Times new roman. -- & it was almost good enough.
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Amanda Lovelace (The Princess Saves Herself in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #1))
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it is strange how sisters can be saviors or strangers & sometimes a bit of both.
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Amanda Lovelace (The Princess Saves Herself in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #1))
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raid your library. read everything you can get your hands on & then some. Β  go on, collect words & polish them up until they shine like starlight in your palm. Β  make words your finest weaponsβ€” a gold-hilted sword to cut your enemies d o w n. Β  - a survival plan of sorts.
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Amanda Lovelace (The Princess Saves Herself in this One)
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Tove had blown the doors open with his abilities, and he stood on the other side of them, looking astonishigly bad ass.
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Amanda Hocking (Torn (Trylle, #2))
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People don't change because you want them to. They aren't clay, ready to be molded.
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Amanda Grace (But I Love Him)
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when I die, do not waste a minute mouring me. I may go, but I will leave behind all my thousand & one lives β€” a bookmad girl never dies.
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Amanda Lovelace (The Princess Saves Herself in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #1))
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i don't wear makeup for others the same way i don't decorate my house for others. this is my home & everything i do is for me.
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Amanda Lovelace (The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #2))
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And I'm stuck in it with no way out. I love you, and I can't stop, and you don't even care!
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Amanda Hocking (Torn (Trylle, #2))
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There hasn’t been a day in my life that I haven’t loved you. I wish you would just let me love you,” he said
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Alison G. Bailey (Present Perfect (Perfect, #1))
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the love some girls have for other girls is so gentle & so soft & so fucking beautiful, & these girls deserve to have better stories than the ones where they are murdered because they love with too much of their hearts. -love is never a weakness.
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Amanda Lovelace (The Princess Saves Herself in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #1))
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How did you even know I wasn't in my room?" "I checked on you." Finn gave me a look like I was an idiot. "I check on you every morning." "You check on me when I'm sleeping?" I gaped at him. "Every morning?" He nodded. "I didn't know that." "Why would you know that? You're sleeping," Finn pointed out.
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Amanda Hocking (Switched (Trylle, #1))
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if you don't want to end up in someone else's poem, then maybe you should start treating people better for a change. - an unapologetic poet.
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Amanda Lovelace (The Princess Saves Herself in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #1))
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He kissed me desperately, like a drowning man and I was his oxygen.
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Amanda Hocking (Switched (Trylle, #1))
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To be a woman is to be warbound, knowing all the odds are stacked against you.
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Amanda Lovelace (The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #2))
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I paused outside your door to see if you were awake, and you clearly were, so I came in." "You still can't just barge in." I crossed my arms over my chest. "Would you like me to go back out and knock?" Loki gestured to the doors behind him. "Would that make you feel better?
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Amanda Hocking (Ascend (Trylle, #3))
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Remember, this is important: Never trust that you will be saved by anyone.
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Amanda Boyden (Pretty Little Dirty)
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Each piece of glass is another piece of myself I gave to him. It's too bad I didn't keep any pieces for myself.
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Amanda Grace (But I Love Him)
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Amanda Lamb (Love Lies: A True Story of Marriage and Murder in the Suburbs)
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There was nothing like having a dead husband return from the grave to ruin a fine spring morning.
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Amanda Quick (Second Sight (Arcane Society, #1))
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You know what’s really cool? Wake up every morning, decide what you feel like doing, and do it.
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Amanda Palmer
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But you're the hardest thing I've ever done, and you're also the best. So... I think that's the moral of the story here. Anything worth having is worth fighting for.
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Amanda Hocking (Wisdom (My Blood Approves, #4))
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The blade sings to me. Faintly, so soft against my ears, its voice calms my worries and tells me that one touch will take it all away. It tells me that I just need to slide a long horizontal cut, and make a clean slice. It tells me the words that I have been begging to hear: this will make it ok.
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Amanda Steele (The Cliff)
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Life as it should be: all friends, all art, all music, all love, all the time.
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Amanda Palmer
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I am so glad we were born during the same lifetime. -I may not believe in fate, but I believe in you.
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Amanda Lovelace (The Princess Saves Herself in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #1))
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We got latched together and I was hoping you could separate us? (Amanda) They were made by your stepfather. Any chance you have a key lying around? (Kyrian) I guess I shouldn't be surprised. At least this time she's not an Amazon princess with an irate mother demanding parts of your body be removed. Two thousand years later, and you're still getting into unbelievable messes. (Julian)
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Sherrilyn Kenyon (Night Pleasures (Dark-Hunter #1))
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Things happen, people change,' is what Amanda said. For her that covered it. You wanted an explanation, and ending that would assign blame and dish up justice. You considered violence and you considered reconciliation . But what you are left with is a premonition of the way your life will fade behind you, like a book you have read too quickly, leaving a dwindling trail of images and emotions, until all you can remember is a name.
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Jay McInerney (Bright Lights, Big City)
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Who was that?” I whispered, as if the walls could hear me. They were lined with pictures, a few of which I recognized as being painted by master painters. β€œRhys.” β€œYeah, I know but… is he my brother?” I asked. I had already decided that he was foxy, so I really hoped that he wasnβ€Ÿt.
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Amanda Hocking (Switched (Trylle, #1))
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The Fraud Police are the imaginary, terrifying force of 'real' grown-ups who you believe - at some subconscious level - are going to come knocking on your door in the middle of the night, saying: We've been watching you, and we have evidence that you have NO IDEA WHAT YOU'RE DOING. You stand accused of the crime of completely winging it, you are guilty of making shit up as you go along, you do not actually deserve your job, we are taking everything away and we are TELLING EVERYBODY.
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Amanda Palmer (The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help)
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There’s no β€œcorrect path” to becoming a real artist. You might think you’ll gain legitimacy by going to art school, getting published, getting signed to a record label. But it’s all bullshit, and it’s all in your head. You’re an artist when you say you are. And you’re a good artist when you make somebody else experience or feel something deep or unexpected.
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Amanda Palmer (The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help)
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When you are rich and powerful, no one will challenge you to your face or give you a chance to explain yourself. All the whispers are behind your back. You are left with no means of clearing your own name. And after a while you realize there is no point in even attempting to do so. No one wants the truth. All anyone wants is the chance to add more fuel to the fires of gossip. The whispers become so loud that sometimes you think you will drown in them.
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Amanda Quick (Ravished)
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There’s a difference between wanting to be looked at and wanting to be seen. When you are looked at, your eyes can be closed. You suck energy, you steal the spotlight. When you are seen, your eyes must be open, and you are seeing and recognizing your witness. You accept energy and you generate energy. You create light. One is exhibitionism, the other is connection. Not everybody wants to be looked at. Everybody wants to be seen.
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Amanda Palmer (The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help)
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I’m alright,” Loki assured me with a grin and stepped out into the hall, so we could have some privacy from onlookers. β€œWhat can I do for you, Princess?” β€œCan I cut off your head?” I asked. β€œAre you asking for my permission?” Loki tilted his head and cocked an eyebrow. β€œBecause I’m going to have to say no to this one request, Princess.” β€œNo, I mean, can I?” I asked. β€œAs in, am I capable of it? Would you die if I did?” β€œOf course I would die.” Loki put one hand against the wall and leaned on it. β€œI’m not a bloody cockroach. What’s all this about? What are you trying to find out?
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Amanda Hocking (Ascend (Trylle, #3))
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Loki," I said. "Hey, Princess." He smiled dazedly as he looked up at me. "What's wrong?" "Nothing." I smiled and shook my head. "Not anymore." "What's this?" He took my hair and held it out so i could see. A curl near the front had gone completely silver. "I take a nap, and you go gray?" "You didn't take a nap." I laughed. "Don't you remember what happened?" He furrowed his brow, trying to remember, and understanding flashed in his eyes. "I remember..." Loki touched my face. "I remember that I love you." I bent down, kissing him full on the mouth, and he held me to him.
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Amanda Hocking (Ascend (Trylle, #3))
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I want to live and work alone. If we get married, do I have to live with you? No, he said. Will you marry me? Do I have to act like a wife? I don’t really want to be a wife. No, you don’t need to be a wife, he said. Will you marry me? If we get married, will we be able to sleep with other people? Yep, he said. Will you marry me? Can I maintain total control of my life? I need total control of my life. Yes, darling. I’m not trying to control you. At all. Will you marry me? I probably don’t want kids. That’s fine. I already have three. They’re great. Will you marry me? If I marry you and it doesn’t work, can we just get divorced? Sure, he said brightly.
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Amanda Palmer (The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help)
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You just couldn’t wait to get me naked, could you, Princess?” Loki asked tiredly. I started to pull my hand back, but he put his own hand over it, keeping it in place. β€œNo, Iβ€”I was checking for wounds,” I stumbled. I wouldn’t meet his gaze. β€œI’m sure.” He moved his thumb, almost caressing my hand, until it hit my ring. β€œWhat’s that?” He tried to sit up to see it, so I lifted my hand, showing him the emerald-encrusted oval on my finger. β€œIs that a wedding ring?” β€œNo, engagement.” I lowered my hand, resting it on the bed next to him. β€œI’m not married yet.” β€œI’m not too late, then.” He smiled and settled back in the bed. β€œToo late for what?” I asked. β€œTo stop you, of course.” Still smiling, he closed his eyes.
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Amanda Hocking (Ascend (Trylle, #3))
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Amanda: This weekend was wonderful, but it isn't real life. It was more like a honeymoon, and after a while the excitement will wear off. We can tell ourselves it won't happen, we can make all the promises we want, but it's inevitable, and after that you'll never look at me the way you do now. I won't be the woman you dream about, or the girl you used to love. And you won't be my long-lost love, my one true thing anymore, either. You'll be someone my kids despise because you ruined the family, and you'll see me for who I really am. In a few years, I'll simply be a woman pushing fifty with three kids who might or might not hate her, and who might end up hating herself because of all this. And in the end, you'll end up hating her, too. Dawson: That's not true. Amanda: But it is. Honeymoons always come to an end. Dawson: Being together isn't about a honeymoon. It's about the real you and me. I want to wake up with you beside me in the mornings, I want to spend my evenings looking at you across the dinner table. I want to share every mundane detail of my day with you and hear every detail of yours. I want to laugh with you and fall asleep with you in my arms. Because you aren't just someone I loved back then. You were my best friend, my best self, and I can't imagine giving that up again. You might not understand, but I gave you the best of me, and after you left, nothing was ever the same. I know you're afraid, and I'm afraid, too. But if we let this go, if we pretend none of this ever happened, then I'm not sure we'll ever get another chance. We're still young. We still have time to make this right. Amanda: We're not that young anymore- Dawson: But we are. We still have the rest of our lives. Amanda: I know. That's why I need you to do something for me. Dawson: Anything. Amanda: Please...don't ask me to go with you, because if you do, I'll go. Please don't ask me to tell Frank about us, because I'll do that, too. Please don't ask me to give up my responsibilities or break up my family. I love you, and if you love me, too, then you just can't ask me to do these things. Because I don't trust myself enough to say no.
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Nicholas Sparks (The Best of Me)
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I don’t ever remember being afraid of β€œoldness”. There are things I miss about being younger - chiefly the ability to pull all-nighters and keep working and working well; and being smiled at by girls I didn’t know who thought I was cute; and I wish I had the eyesight I had even five years ago… but that stuff feels pretty trivial. I’m happier than I’ve been at any time in my life these days. I have a wonderful wife whom I adore, watched three amazing kids grow into two delightful adults and my favourite teenager, an astonishing number of grand life experiences, I’ve made art I’m proud of, I have real, true, glorious friends, and I’ve been able to do real good for things I care about, like freedom of speech, like libraries. Sometimes I’ll do something like An Evening With Neil and Amanda, or the 8 in 8 project, and completely surprise myself. I miss friends who have died, but then, I’m glad that time gave them to me, to befriend, even for a while, and that I was alive to know them. I knew Douglas Adams, and I knew Roger Zelazny, and I knew John M Ford, and I knew Diana Wynne Jones… do you know how lucky that makes me? Ah, I’m rabbiting on, and I sound a bit more Pollyannaish than I’m intending to sound: I know the downside of age and the downside of time, and I am sure that the view from age 51 is not the view from age 71. I wish the time hadn’t gone so fast, though. And sometimes I wish I’d enjoyed it more on the way, and worried about it less.
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Neil Gaiman
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Good morning, good morning, good morning," Loki chirped, wheeling in a table covered with silver domes. "What are you doing?" I asked, squinting at him. He'd pulled up the shades. I was tired a hell, and I was not happy. "I thought you two lovebirds would like breakfast," Loki said. "So I had the chef whip you up something fantastic." As he set up the table in the sitting area, he looked over at us. "Although you two are sleeping awfully far apart for newly weds." "Oh my god." I groaned and pulled the covers over my head. "You know, I think you're being a dick," Tove told him as he got out of bed. "But I'm starving. So I'm willing to overlook it. This time." "A dick?" Loki pretended to be offended. "I'm merely worried about your health. If your bodies aren't used to strenous activities, like a long night of love making, you could waste away if you don't get plenty of protein and rehydrate. I'm concerned for you." "Yes we both believe that's why you're here," Tove said sarcastically and took a glass of orange juice that Loki had just poured for him. "What about you princess?" Loki's gaze cut to me as he filled another glass. "I'm not hungry."I sighed and sat up. "Oh really?" Loki arched an eyebrow. "Does that mean that last night-" "It means last night is none of your business," I snapped.
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Amanda Hocking (Ascend (Trylle, #3))