Amanda Hocking Quotes

“I don't care where I come from or who you are. I can make you happy, and you make me happy. We could have a happily ever after.”

— Amanda Hocking

“You should get married more often," Loki teased. "It makes you feisty.”

— Amanda Hocking

Wendy!" Finn shouted pulling me from my moment with Loki. "What are you doing? You're married. And not to him."
"Nothing slips by you does it." Loki asked.

— Amanda Hocking

“How did you even know I wasn't in my room?"
"I checked on you." Finn gave me a look like I was an idiot. "I check on you every morning."
"You check on me when I'm sleeping?" I gaped at him. "Every morning?"
He nodded.
"I didn't know that."
"Why would you know that? You're sleeping," Finn pointed out.”

— Amanda Hocking

“When you dance with the devil, the devil doesn't change. The devil changes you.”

— Amanda Hocking

“I don't know. After the downstairs, I assumed something creepier and dirtier." I
shrugged. "You didn't have electricity down there."
"It's for dramatic effect." Loki gestured widely. "It's a dungeon.”

— Amanda Hocking

“Travelling is a great time to catch up on my reading. It's hard falling asleep in new places, but a good book always makes it easier.”

— Amanda Hocking

“For me to be a billion-dollar author, I need to have people buying my books at Wal-Mart.”

— Amanda Hocking

“I don't really like fairies.”

— Amanda Hocking

“It feels so weird to be able to just kind of buy things when I want them or need them.”

— Amanda Hocking

“People have bad things to say about publishers, but I think they still have services, and I want to see what they are. And if they end up not being any good, I don't have to keep using them.”

— Amanda Hocking

“He might as well have been telling me to build a damn rocketship. I had no idea what to do.”

— Amanda Hocking

“Not all prisons have bars”

— Amanda Hocking

In case you haven't noticed, I'm a lover not a fighter.

— Amanda Hocking

“How had it turned into this? I had lived my whole stupid life without him, and now I could barely make it through the hour.”

— Amanda Hocking

“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

“Are you in love with him?"
"What?" I asked, and my heart dropped to my stomach. "Why would you ... " I wanted to argue, but the strength had gone out of my words.
"He's in love with you." He lifted his head and looked up at me. "Do you know that?"
"I-I don't know what you're talking about," I stammered. I walked over to the bed, needing to do something to busy myself, so I pulled up the sheets. "Loki is merely-"
"I see your auras," Tove interrupted me, his voice firm but not angry. "His is silver, and yours is gold. And when you're around each other, you both get a pink halo. Just now you were both glowing bright pink, and your auras intertwined.”

— Amanda Hocking

I need to call Matt and let him know I'm okay," I said. Finn held the passenger door open while I got inside. As soon as he got in the driver's seat, I turned to him. "Well? Can I call him?"
"You really want to?" Finn asked as he started the car.
"Yes, of course I do! Why is that so suprising?

— Amanda Hocking

“I tended to hate people that hit me in the head without warning.”

— Amanda Hocking

“You're killing me here! You are far more dangerous than I am!”

— Amanda Hocking

“Don't." I walked up to him. "If it ever comes down to a
situation between me and you, save yourself. I'm not worth dying
for."
"Princess, I-"
"None of us are," I said, looking at him seriously. "Not the
Queen or any of the Markis or Marksinna. That's a direct order from
the Princess, and you have to follow it. Save yourself."
"I don't understand." Duncan's whole face scrunched in
confusion. "But ... if it's as you wish, Princess."
"It is. Thank you," I smiled at him and walked into the palace.”

— Amanda Hocking

“The only consent hinge in life is that everyhin is changing. And that's a little scary, but it means that hints can't be bad or hard forever.”

— Amanda Hocking

“You know something?" He lifted his head, and when he turned to me, he had this strange look in his eyes. Almost as if he was really seeing me for the first time. "I don't think I ever really lived until this. I've never done anything that mattered before, but now I'm fighting to save my life, and yours. And I know it sounds really cheesy and lame, but I don't think I ever really felt alive. Not until I met you.”

— Amanda Hocking

“Remember my name. Because I'm going to be the one who kills you.”

— Amanda Hocking

“Im looking at you 'cause i can't look away -Finn”

— Amanda Hocking

“That's kind of creepy,”

— Amanda Hocking

“I can't talk you out of this?" he whispered, his eyes searching mine.
"No."
He swallowed and brushed back a hair from my forehead. His hand lingered on my face, and I let it. His eyes were strangely sad, and I wanted to ask him why, but I didn't dare speak.
"I want you to remember this," he said, his voice low and husky.
"What?" I asked.
"You want me to kiss you."
"I don't," I lied.
"You do. And I want you to remember that."
"Why?"
"Because." Without further explanation, he turned away from me. "If you want to do this, hurry and put some clothes on. You don't want to see the King in your pajamas.”

— Amanda Hocking

Loki started to speak, but his knees gave out. He pitched forward, and I rushed to catch him. He fell into my arms, and I lowered him to the floor.
"Loki?" I brushed the hair back from his eyes, and they fluttered open.
"Wendy." He smiled up at me, but the smile was weak. "If I'd known that this is what it would take to get you to hold me, I would've collapsed a long time ago."
"What is going on, Loki?" I asked gently. If he hadn't been so obviously distressed, I would've swatted him for that comment, but he grimaced in pain when I touched his face.
"Amnesty," he said thickly, and his eyes closed. "I need amnesty, Princess." His head tilted to the side, and his body relaxed. He'd passed out.

— Amanda Hocking

Have you tried?" Tove countered, his eyes sparkling.
"Well ... no," I admitted.
"Do it."
"How?"
He shrugged. "Figure it out."
"You're really good at this training thing," I said with a sigh.

— Amanda Hocking

“At that moment I didn't particularly care if a band of raging marauders tried to do her in,but if there were frequent attacks on her "castle," I thought I should know.”

— Amanda Hocking

“A vampire is branding girls, okay?" I ignored his refusal. "Something about that just feels wrong to me."
"I would hope so.”

— Amanda Hocking

“When you mix dirt with water, the dirt doesn't get clean. The water just gets dirty.”

— Amanda Hocking

You overestimate my interest in you," Loki grinned broadly. "I prefer my Princesses in unsoiled pajamas."
My clothes would've been relatively clean if it weren't for the blood on my sweater and some dirt on my knees. I was sure I was a mess, but it wasn't my fault.
"I'm sorry. I usually look much nicer after I take a beating," I said, and his smile faltered.

— Amanda Hocking

“I can't marry Tove!"
"Why ever not?" She batted her dark lashes at me.
"Because I don't love him!"
"Love is a fairy tale that manks tell their children so they'll have grandchildren," Elora said, brushing me off.”

— Amanda Hocking

And you'd be surprised what you can do to the people you love.

— Amanda Hocking

“I love it when you talk clean to me, quoting training manuals like sonnets.”

— Amanda Hocking

It was lovely meeting you.Tell Ember I said good-bye."
"You're welcome here anytime, Princess," Thomas said, and I could actually hear Annali hitting him in the arm as I walked out of the cottage.

— Amanda Hocking

“When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.”

— Amanda Hocking

“You always have a choice!”

— Amanda Hocking

“This is Bayle's meeting, isn't it?" Kennet asked, looking over his shoulder at the large bronze clock hanging on the wall. "Doesn't he know it's rude to arrive late to your own party?"
"When you arrived late to your own birthday party, you told me that was arriving in style," Linnea reminded him.”

— Amanda Hocking

“Everything was ready to go. Except for her.”

— Amanda Hocking

“I don't want anyone getting hurt over me," I said and looked directly at him.
 
"Good." His mouth curled up into a smirk. "Then learn to defend yourself. Move the tarp.”

— Amanda Hocking

“All that it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing”

— Amanda Hocking

“Delia let out a resigned sigh. 'I couldn't help her, and she didn't want to stay. So there was nothing more I could do.' 'But you said she was in trouble.' Delia nodded. 'She is, but I can't force help on her. 'She'll come back when she's ready.' 'If she's every ready,' Lydia clarified. 'That's true. Some people never are,' Delia agreed thoughtfully.”

— Amanda Hocking

“Oh, Alice, I'm afraid you've really fallen into a rabbit hole this time,”

— Amanda Hocking

“Some books and authors are best sellers, but most aren't. It may be easier to self-publish than it is to traditionally publish, but in all honesty, it's harder to be a best seller self-publishing than it is with a house.”

— Amanda Hocking

“In that moment, Lux felt complete for the first time. He hadn't even realized anything was missing until he met her, but now, with her curled up in his arms, her hair tickling against his chin, he couldn't imagine existing without her - Virtue - A Fairy Tale”

— Amanda Hocking

You don't want me here, I don't wanna be here, so why am I here?

— Amanda Hocking

“There was something almost painful about that, the intensity of being so vulnerable and so intimate with him.”

— Amanda Hocking

“Can I cut off your head?" "Are you asking for my permission?”

— Amanda Hocking