“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
“The dog approached again, cautiously. I found the bologna sandwich, ripped off a chunk, wiped the cheap watery mustard off, then placed it on the sidewalk.
The dog walked up to the bit of sandwich, put his nose to it, sniffed, then turned and walked off. This time he didn't look back. He accelerated down the street.
No wonder I had been depressed all my life. I wasn't getting proper nourishment. ”
― Charles Bukowski, quote from Ham on Rye
“I realized then that I didn't understand anything. I read all the books I could.”
― Marjane Satrapi, quote from Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
“I’ve been in love with you for months. I’m telling you now because I think you love me, too, Anna. You just don’t think you’re supposed to. You’ll tell me when you’re ready. I can wait.”
― Tracey Garvis-Graves, quote from On the Island
“More stringent security measures. Universal electronic surveillance. No-knock laws. Stop and frisk laws. Government inspection of first-class mail. Automatic fingerprinting, photographing, blood tests, and urinalysis of any person arrested before he is charged with a crime. A law making it unlawful to resist even unlawful arrest. Laws establishing detention camps for potential subversives. Gun control laws. Restrictions on travel. The assassinations, you see, establish the need for such laws in the public mind. Instead of realizing that there is a conspiracy, conducted by a handful of men, the people reason—or are manipulated into reasoning—that the entire populace must have its freedom restricted in order to protect the leaders. The people agree that they themselves can’t be trusted.”
― Robert Shea, quote from The Illuminatus! Trilogy
“The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting. For some, it's a Broadway spotlight; for others, a lamplit desk. Use your natural powers -- of persistence, concentration, and insight -- to do work you love and work that matters. Solve problems. make art, think deeply.”
― Susan Cain, quote from Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
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