“God is good, but the devil is not so bad to those he likes,”
― Amanda Hocking, quote from Freeks
“That's when I realized the chill wasn't coming from outside—it was coming from within me.”
― Amanda Hocking, quote from Freeks
“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.”
― Amanda Hocking, quote from Freeks
“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.”
― Amanda Hocking, quote from Freeks
“Darkness engulfed me...There was no ground below me, no sky above. Only the black, and the cold.”
― Amanda Hocking, quote from Freeks
“The sun had begun its descent toward the horizon, and the sounds of the carnival played like a familiar song behind me.”
― Amanda Hocking, quote from Freeks
“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.”
― Amanda Hocking, quote from Freeks
“It means ‘God is good, and the devil is not so bad to those he likes.”
― Amanda Hocking, quote from Freeks
“Your boyfriend spent the night sleeping outside your door. I haven't decided if that's romantic or creepy yet. Maybe both.”
― Amanda Hocking, quote from Freeks
“As Gideon always said in the opening of his act, There is always something extraordinary in the ordinary”
― Amanda Hocking, quote from Freeks
“Denial is how I cope. If I just deny everything, it can't hurt me right?”
― Amanda Hocking, quote from Freeks
“Once you open your mind to the spirits, you can't shut it again.”
― Amanda Hocking, quote from Freeks
“That night at the hotel, in our room with the long empty hall outside and our shoes outside the door, a thick carpet on the floor of the room, outside the windows the rain falling and in the room light and pleasant and cheerful, then the light out and it exciting with smooth sheets and the bed comfortable, feeling that we had come home, feeling no longer alone, waking in the night to find the other one there, and not gone away; all other things were unreal. We slept when we were tired and if we woke the other one woke too so one was not alone. Often a man wishes to be alone and a girl wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they are jealous of that in each other, but I can truly say we never felt that. We could feel alone when we were together, alone against the others ... But we were never lonely and never afraid when we were together. I know that the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started. But with Catherine there was almost no difference in the night except that it was an even better time. If people bring so much courage to the world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
― Ernest Hemingway, quote from A Farewell to Arms
“He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson”
― John Irving, quote from The World According to Garp
“Every real story is a never ending story.”
― Michael Ende, quote from The Neverending Story
“New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.”
― Charles Dickens, quote from David Copperfield
“People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.”
― Gregory Maguire, quote from Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
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