“There's one good thing about making mistakes.' Thea turned to her with a smile. 'You learn not to make them again.”
― Amanda Hocking, quote from Tidal
“And you'd be surprised what you can do to the people you love.”
― Amanda Hocking, quote from Tidal
“Nope. I'm just going to a bookstore,' Gemma replied. 'How dangerous could that be?”
― Amanda Hocking, quote from Tidal
“My mama didn't raise any fools and she didn't raise any heroes.”
― Amanda Hocking, quote from Tidal
“You can't go messing around with people's hearts. It never ends well, no matter how good your intentions might be" -Daniel”
― Amanda Hocking, quote from Tidal
“Of course I’m going to the front door like a stupid chick in a horror movie," he muttered. On his way to the door, he doubled back and grabbed a baseball bat from the closet. "Now I just have to remember not to go outside and ask if anyone is there.”
― Amanda Hocking, quote from Tidal
“Everything was ready to go. Except for her.”
― Amanda Hocking, quote from Tidal
“Time cannot be packaged and ribboned and left under trees for christmas morning.Time can't be given.But it can be shared”
― Cecelia Ahern, quote from The Gift
“Finally, I’d say to anyone who wants to tell these tales, don’t be afraid to be superstitious. If you have a lucky pen, use it. If you speak with more force and wit when wearing one red sock and one blue one, dress like that. When I’m at work I’m highly superstitious. My own superstition has to do with the voice in which the story comes out. I believe that every story is attended by its own sprite, whose voice we embody when we tell the tale, and that we tell it more successfully if we approach the sprite with a certain degree of respect and courtesy. These sprites are both old and young, male and female, sentimental and cynical, sceptical and credulous, and so on, and what’s more, they’re completely amoral: like the air-spirits who helped Strong Hans escape from the cave, the story-sprites are willing to serve whoever has the ring, whoever is telling the tale. To the accusation that this is nonsense, that all you need to tell a story is a human imagination, I reply, ‘Of course, and this is the way my imagination works.”
― Philip Pullman, quote from Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version
“Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade...It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head - even if in the end you conclude that someone else's head is not a place you're really like to be.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, quote from What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures
“Her sister - shimmering and translucent in the moonlight - was next to her, standing fiercely over Ethan with her fists balled up. And then, just as quickly, she was gone.”
― Sara Shepard, quote from Seven Minutes in Heaven
“Sam was spirited, and it was letting her exercise that spiritedness that got her going. Whether”
― Suzanne Wright, quote from Here Be Sexist Vampires
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