Top 100 Amanda Hocking Quotes
#1. Hugh Howey and Amanda Hocking come to mind immediately as authors who managed to build a successful following without the initial support of a large publisher.
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#2. I knew people were independently publishing, and I buy books on Amazon. I began seriously considering it when Amanda Hocking was in the news about her self-publishing success.
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#3. Amanda Hocking and Hugh Howey have been successful in their self-publishing ventures. But notice that Hocking would prefer to write and hand over the editing, promotion, and selling to a traditional publisher.
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#4. Because you're here with me, Jack said. Any night that ends with that can't be that bad
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#5. During our session, I told Tove about how I'd done mind-speak on Duncan, but it only worked when I was irritated. Using that logic,Tove spent most of the morning trying to irritate me into using it. Sometimes it worked, but most of the time I just got pointlessly annoyed.
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#6. I have a screened in porch, and it's nice to curl up with a book outside when it's raining, especially an old battered classic like 'Pride & Prejudice & Zombies.'
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#7. I had called him out on being creepy, justifiably so, and it didn't faze him at all. He didn't stammer an apology or flush with shame and regret. He just kept looking at me evenly. Most likely, he was a damn sociopath, and for whatever reason, I found that endearing.
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#8. You're killing me here! You are far more dangerous than I am!
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#9. I love it when you talk clean to me, quoting training manuals like sonnets.
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#11. You know, back in the day, when a guy saved a Princess's life, she would reward him with a kiss ...
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#12. Cause I lit him on fire, I shrugged and brushed dust from my pants.
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#13. Remember my name. Because I'm going to be the one who kills you.
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#14. You're not very good at being contemplative," Milo said. "You always sound like some bad caricature of a philosopher, like those fortune cookies with 'Confucius say' or the Nietzsche guy from Mystery Men that's always saying 'when you walk on the ground, the ground walks on you.
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#15. If im lucky, i will never have to see you again. Because if i do, that means we are at war, and id have to hurt you
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#16. An oblique angle," Jack said, and his bout of jealousy was quickly replaced with glee. "Ha! I told you I would work that in!
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#17. 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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#18. 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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#19. He smelled of cold. Like ice and snow on the harshest days of winter.
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#20. I don't want one night. I want all nights. I want all of you, forever.
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#21. When you told me you loved me," Lily's eyes widened when she looked at Lux, "You saved the world.
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#22. Everything I went through," he said. "For you. It was worth it.
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#23. I've taken every writing class I've had available. I took classes in high school, and I took English and writing classes in community college, but I dropped out of college. I also attended a local writing workshop two years ago.
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#24. You can't go messing around with people's hearts. It never ends well, no matter how good your intentions might be -Daniel
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#25. For me to be a billion-dollar author, I need to have people buying my books at Wal-Mart.
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#26. He sat on his bed watching Willa straighten her hair. We may have been in crisis mode, but that didn't mean her hair had to look like it.
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#27. Writing has always felt like a compulsion. Even at high school there'd be times when people would ask me if I wanted to go and hang out and I'd sit home and write instead.
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#28. She's the princess. She commanded and I obeyed!"-Loki
"You don't obey a suicide mission!"-Finn
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#29. Justice? Does that mean you'll drag them back here? Or are you going to kill them all?
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#30. Can I cut off your head?" "Are you asking for my permission?
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#31. So, what do you say, white rabbit?" Konstantin asked. "Friends?
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#32. He hadn't been peeping intentionally; he'd been trying to sneak into my room. So that was slightly less creepy, I supposed.
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#33. Mark my words, Princess," Loki said. "One day, you'll be madly in love with me.
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#34. 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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#35. They were unfailing in their love for me, and most of the time they had gotten nothing in return. Maybe that last part was the proof that my mother was right. They only gave, and I only took.
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#36. I don't know why you're making the poor girl play with you," Peter said. "You're going to completely slaughter her."
"Well, I am the greatest Guitar Hero player of all time," Jack said.
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#37. I need to call Matt and let him know I'm okay," I said. Finn held the passenger door open while I got inside. As soon as he got in the driver's seat, I turned to him. "Well? Can I call him?"
"You really want to?" Finn asked as he started the car.
"Yes, of course I do! Why is that so suprising?
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#38. No! If you die, I die! You asked me to spend forever with you, and I'm going to!
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#39. I tended to hate people that hit me in the head without warning.
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#40. When something is important to you, you make sure its safe.
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#41. Do you know much about the Vittra?"
"Some." He held out an orange slice to me. "Want some?"
"No, thanks." I shook my head. "How much is 'some'?"
"I meant like a slice or two, but you can have the rest if you really want.
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#43. It's not the amount of time that makes something real. It's what happens in that time," he said solemnly. "Each moment is weighted against the next, and the moments I've spent with you have been more meaningful than almost all the ones I've had before it.
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#44. Have you tried?" Tove countered, his eyes sparkling.
"Well ... no," I admitted.
"Do it."
"How?"
He shrugged. "Figure it out."
"You're really good at this training thing," I said with a sigh.
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#45. What's your angle?" I asked, trying to sound more playful than demanding.
"Isosceles," Jack quipped.
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#46. I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.' Vega
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#48. His lips brushed against mine. Delicately at first, almost testing to see if this was real.
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#49. I'll always have your back," Ridley said with a wry smile. "Or any part of your body."
I rolled my eyes and smiled despite myself. "Way to ruin a perfectly nice moment, Ridley.
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#50. Yeah, but they're PURPLE pants," Bobby said as if that made some kind of distinction. "Hence, I'm awesome.
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#51. Are you going to be all right now?" Loki asked. He'd walked me over here, and he waited just inside the doorway.
"Yeah I'm great," I lied and sat on the bed. "The entire kingdom is falling apart. People are dying. I have to kill my father. And my husband just went crazy
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#52. You expect me to believe that you're being held against your will?" I raised a skeptical eyebrow. "You're roaming around the castle freely."
"As are you." He turned away from me then. "Not all prisons have bars. You should know that better than anyone, Princess.
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#53. I am on my way, and tell him he better watch his ass!" Jack shouted, and I held the phone away from
ear so it wouldn't damage my eardrums.
"Real mature, Jack," Peter scoffed
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#54. 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." "I don't think that last one is a formal title," I said. "It should be.
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#55. That's when I realized the chill wasn't coming from outside - it was coming from within me.
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#57. My mom has a tape from when I was, like, 2 years old, talking with my grandma, telling her a story that's really elaborate about werewolves and wolves.
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#58. When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
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#59. Self-publishing is great, but I don't want to be an icon for it, or anything else.
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#60. Forever is a really long time, you know? What do you do with forever?"
"The same thing you do when you don't have forever." He smiled wanly. "Live.
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#61. I looked at him like he was an idiot, but he didn't notice. Or maybe he got it so often, he thought that was how people looked at him.
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#62. When I was a little kid, before I learned how to write, I would tell stories.
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#63. You aren't the man of my dreams because I could never have dreamed someone as amazing as you.
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#64. I don't think I've ever really had a home before, not until I met you.
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#65. I decided to go along with it. If he tried to give me the runaround, I would bolt. I didn't have time to waste on vague answers and evasive language. Matt and Rhys were captive, and Rhys couldn't even sit down.
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#66. I have seen all kinds of things that defy the laws of nature. But I've never seen a monster. Only those that are misunderstood and mistreated.
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#67. That's not how it works. You don't have the right to other people's thoughts just because they might include you,
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#68. It was lovely meeting you.Tell Ember I said good-bye."
"You're welcome here anytime, Princess," Thomas said, and I could actually hear Annali hitting him in the arm as I walked out of the cottage.
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#69. Wendy: Why are you staring at me?
Finn: Because you're standing in front of me.
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#70. (Scientists haven't tested this, but I've come to find that a Gatorade, a bowl of Fruity Pebbles, and an Excedrin will cure any hangover.) "Hung
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#71. There's one good thing about making mistakes.' Thea turned to her with a smile. 'You learn not to make them again.
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#72. How could you do nothing to him, if you fought so hard?" she asked. "I'm lust and he's wrath!" he yelled. "I'm a lover, he's a fighter!" Virtue - A Fairy Tale
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#73. Through most of the ride, none of us really said anything.It was hard to hear over the sound of the vehicle, and there wasn't much to say.
Are you scared that the Omte will literally crush you?
Oh, me too!
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#75. 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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#76. I can't marry Tove!"
"Why ever not?" She batted her dark lashes at me.
"Because I don't love him!"
"Love is a fairy tale that manks tell their children so they'll have grandchildren," Elora said, brushing me off.
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#77. I know," I admitted, hating that it was true. "But it is only worth losing some lives if
we can win, otherwise the lives were lost for nothing.
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#78. You could kill me, Alice, he looked at me seriously. That's how much you mean to me. As foolish and masochistic as that makes me, you are so much to me that even if it destroys me to be with you, I'll be with you!
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#79. I usually plan to read a book for a half-hour before bed, but then I end up staying awake until 3 A.M. to finish it. Fortunately, my dog doesn't mind when I keep the bedside lamp on.
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#80. Alone I walk on paths I know, looking for a friendly face, I look to meet you, the one I gave my whole heart to. I want to see you once again, and dance again with, my love.
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#81. I don't know. After the downstairs, I assumed something creepier and dirtier." I
shrugged. "You didn't have electricity down there."
"It's for dramatic effect." Loki gestured widely. "It's a dungeon.
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#82. He stepped into my room with one graceful move, as if entering through bedroom windows was nothing out of the ordinary.
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#83. It feels so weird to be able to just kind of buy things when I want them or need them.
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#84. He kissed me desperately, like a drowning man and I was his oxygen.
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#85. Unfortunately, zombies aren't very flammable, and it went out instantly.
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#86. This was good, except that now I had two crazed, burning zombies standing between me and the exit, plus another one that wasn't on fire. I had not thought this plan through at all.
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#87. Fine. Whatever. I don't. Nobody understands your pain, Mae. Because it is so unique! Nobody's ever loved something so much they would do anything to save it, except for you, Mae. You cornered that market!
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#88. Taking a deep breath, I turned around to face the doors. I went down the hall, prepared to kill my father.
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#89. There was something almost painful about that, the intensity of being so vulnerable and so intimate with him.
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#90. 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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#91. It smelled pretty rank, but I was getting used to the smell of death, as much as anyone could get used to it.
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#92. But I think they aren't as hard to defeat as we once thought. They're not fighters."
"I'm sure that will be real comforting to all the dead people here," Tove said.
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#93. He looked at me then, his deep golden eyes meeting mine, and I saw a heat in them that I felt reflecting in my own.
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#94. This is so weird. They're your brother and aunt."
"No, I understand. They're your family too." Rhys said. "They loved you and raised you. That's what family is, right?
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#95. I saw you first," Jack mumbled.
"You cannot use that as an argument," I rolled my eyes. "I'm not the last piece of pizza. I'm a perso.
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#96. As a rule, I don't enjoy being tossed into closets and having the door shut on my face, but I knew he was protecting me.
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#97. A vampire is branding girls, okay?" I ignored his refusal. "Something about that just feels wrong to me."
"I would hope so.
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#98. When you dance with the devil, the devil doesn't change. The devil changes you.
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#100. You know what would be fun?
Nobody wants to play Guitar Hero.
But you can play the Beatles! You loved the Beatles!
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