“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
“Were the judgments of mankind correct, custom would be regulated by the good. But it is often far otherwise in point of fact; for, whatever the many are seen to do, forthwith obtains the force of custom. But human affairs have scarcely ever been so happily constituted as that the better course pleased the greater number. Hence the private vices of the multitude have generally resulted in public error, or rather that common consent in vice which these worthy men would have to be law.”
― John Calvin, quote from Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols
“My body becomes a raft and there's this part of me that wants just literally to go with the flow. To close my eyes and let it take me. But I know sooner or later I will have to get out, that I need to feel the earth beneath my feet, between my toes - the splinters, the bindi-eyes, the burning sensation of hot dirt, the sting of cuts, the twigs, the bites, the heat, the discomfort, the everything. I need desperately to feel it all, so when something wonderful happens, the contrast will be so massive that I will bottle the impact and keep it for the rest of my life.”
― Melina Marchetta, quote from Jellicoe Road
“She waited until both girls nod.”
― M.K. Eidem, quote from Grim
“Feeling dead was better than when my heart hurt. Sometimes I thought it might burn through my ribs while I was asleep, and smolder in the sheets until the whole house caught fire.”
― Bryn Greenwood, quote from All the Ugly and Wonderful Things
“Humanity must need to continue because humanity is about humans and humans are nothing without humanity.”
― Zaman Ali, quote from Humanity
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