“What's your angle?" I asked, trying to sound more playful than demanding.
"Isosceles," Jack quipped.”
― Amanda Hocking, quote from My Blood Approves
“Being liked for the way you looked is worse than not being liked at all.”
― Amanda Hocking, quote from My Blood Approves
“When you dance with the devil, the devil doesn't change. The devil changes you.”
― Amanda Hocking, quote from My Blood Approves
“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.”
― Amanda Hocking, quote from My Blood Approves
“Nothing is 'just' anything with you”
― Amanda Hocking, quote from My Blood Approves
“Yeah, you're probably right," I admitted and slowly pulled myself out from underneath the covers.
"You know, I really wish you'd catch onto the fact that I'm always right.”
― Amanda Hocking, quote from My Blood Approves
“It's not my fault everybody wants me”
― Amanda Hocking, quote from My Blood Approves
“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”
― Amanda Hocking, quote from My Blood Approves
“You know what would be fun?
Nobody wants to play Guitar Hero.
But you can play the Beatles! You loved the Beatles!”
― Amanda Hocking, quote from My Blood Approves
“You can bite me if you want. I want you to.”
― Amanda Hocking, quote from My Blood Approves
“You don't want me here, I don't wanna be here, so why am I here?”
― Amanda Hocking, quote from My Blood Approves
“You're killing me here! You are far more dangerous than I am!”
― Amanda Hocking, quote from My Blood Approves
“Cuando Bailas con el diablo, no es el diablo el que cambia.El Diablo te Cambia a Ti.-Jack a Alice”
― Amanda Hocking, quote from My Blood Approves
“(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”
― Amanda Hocking, quote from My Blood Approves
“Welcome to the world of grown-ups. You might be good at math, and somebody pays for tht, but what you really love to do is sing. Do you think Oscar prizes above all else his ability to book guests into a hotel?.. The sad fact of the world... is almost nobody exactly chooses what they get paid to do."
Peggy to James”
― Elizabeth McCracken, quote from The Giant's House
“Have you not noticed that the wild flowers are becoming scarcer every year? It may be that their wise men have told them to depart till man becomes more human. Perhaps they have migrated to heaven.”
― Kakuzō Okakura, quote from The Book of Tea
“CONSORTING WITH ANGELS
I was tired of being a woman,
tired of the spoons and the pots,
tired of my mouth and my breasts,
tired of the cosmetics and the silks.
There were still men who sat at my table,
circled around the bowl I offered up.
The bowl was filled with purple grapes
and the flies hovered in for the scent
and even my father came with his white bone.
But I was tired of the gender of things.
Last night I had a dream
and I said to it . . .
"You are the answer.
You will outlive my husband and my father."
In that dream there was a city made of chains
where Joan was put to death in man's clothes
and the nature of the angels went unexplained,
no two made in the same species,
one with a nose, one with an ear in its hand,
one chewing a star and recording its orbit,
each one like a poem obeying itself,
performing God's functions,
a people apart.
"You are the answer,"
I said, and entered,
lying down on the gates of the city.
Then the chains were fastened around me
and I lost my common gender and my final aspect.
Adam was on the left of me
and Eve was on the right of me,
both thoroughly inconsistent with the world of reason.
We wove our arms together
and rode under the sun.
I was not a woman anymore,
not one thing or the other.
0 daughters of Jerusalem,
the king has brought me into his chamber.
I am black and I am beautiful.
I've been opened and undressed.
I have no arms or legs.
I'm all one skin like a fish.
I'm no more a woman
than Christ was a man.”
― Anne Sexton, quote from The Complete Poems
“Çünkü akıl maddeyi güzelleştirir bilgi aklı parlatır.”
― Alexandra Lapierre, quote from Artemisia
“My my Laura Goodman. I must say that is a charming name for a charming young lady."
"Eric's old." I broke in. "Really really old."
"Er— really?" Laura asked. "Gosh you don't look even out of your thirties."
"Tons of face-lifts. He's a surgical addict. I'm trying to get him help." I added defensively when they both gave me strange looks.”
― MaryJanice Davidson, quote from Undead and Unappreciated
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