Top 120 Amanda Hocking Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Amanda Hocking

2. “A foolish man thinks he knows everything. A wise man knows he doesn’t.”

— Amanda Hocking

3. “You don’t want me here, I don’t wanna be here, so why am I here?”

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4. “Not all prisons have bars.”

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5. “I look at you because I can’t look away.”

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6. “This is the way the world ends; not with a bang or a whimper, but with zombies breaking down the back door.”

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7. “You can’t let doubt or fear or guilt eat away at you. You are good and you need to remember that above all else. Love is stronger than hatred, and you are made of love.”

— Amanda Hocking

8. “Don’t stay out too late. The real trouble always starts after midnight.”

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9. “I’ve always kind of wrote when I wanted to. Once I get the idea in my head and get it outlined out, I usually just sit and write until it’s done.”

— Amanda Hocking

10. “That’s the funny thing about love,” he said. “It doesn’t wait for perfection – the heart loves who it loves, exactly as they are, faults and all.”

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11. “It’s not my fault everybody wants me.”

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12. “I’m not all you need, and I don’t even want to be. I just want to love you, for the rest of my life, and as long as you let me do that, we’ll be okay.”

— Amanda Hocking

13. “And I’m stuck in it with no way out. I love you, and I can’t stop, and you don’t even care!”

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14. “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.”

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15. “Sometimes the best course in the search for the meaning of life is to busy yourself until you forget that you don’t know the meaning of life.”

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16. “It means ‘God is good, and the devil is not so bad to those he likes.”

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

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18. “You show me an angel that breaks bad, and I’ll show you a devil in disguise.”

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19. “I will make this world a better place, whether they like it or not. That’s the fun of being Queen.”

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20. “Sometimes it seems to me that that’s all my life has been, a series of things that I loved deeply that I could never have.”

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21. “Fine. Whatever. I don’t. Nobody understands your pain, Mae. Because it is so unique! Nobody’s ever loved something so much they would do anything to save it, except for you, Mae. You cornered that market!”

— Amanda Hocking

22. “The dead must stay dead. That which is dead cannot rise.”

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23. “You can bite me if you want. I want you to.”

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

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25. “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

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26. “If im lucky, i will never have to see you again. Because if i do, that means we are at war, and id have to hurt you.”

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27. “You could kill me, Alice, he looked at me seriously. That’s how much you mean to me. As foolish and masochistic as that makes me, you are so much to me that even if it destroys me to be with you, I’ll be with you!”

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28. “If Peter Pan had been real, he would’ve gone mad and killed everyone in Neverland.”

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29. “He kissed me desperately, like a drowning man and I was his oxygen.”

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30. “I looked at him like he was an idiot, but he didn’t notice. Or maybe he got it so often, he thought that was how people looked at him.”

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31. “His lips brushed against mine. Delicately at first, almost testing to see if this was real.”

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32. “While it did smash, breaking a bottle over someone’s head requires a lot more force than movies had led me to believe.”

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33. “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.”

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34. “I was always depressed growing up. There wasnt a reason for it, I just was. I was sad and morose. I cried a lot, I wrote a lot, and I read a lot; and that was how I dealt with it.”

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35. “I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.’” Vega.”

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36. “Finn: I look at you because I can’t look away Wendy. Wendy: That’s kinda creepy. Finn: I will work on being less creepy then.”

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37. “When I met you, I just knew,” he said as his fingers trailed down my temple. “I knew you were good, and I knew you were who I was looking for.”

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38. “Alone I walk on paths I know, looking for a friendly face, I look to meet you, the one I gave my whole heart to. I want to see you once again, and dance again with, my love.”

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39. “I don’t want only one night. I want all the nights. I want all of you, forever.”

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40. “Being liked for the way you looked is worse than not being liked at all.”

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41. “Wendy: Why are you staring at me? Finn: Because you’re standing in front of me.”

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42. “My mama didn’t raise any fools and she didn’t raise any heroes.”

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43. “I had called him out on being creepy, justifiably so, and it didn’t faze him at all. He didn’t stammer an apology or flush with shame and regret. He just kept looking at me evenly. Most likely, he was a damn sociopath, and for whatever reason, I found that endearing.”

— Amanda Hocking

44. “Darkness engulfed me... There was no ground below me, no sky above. Only the black, and the cold.”

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45. “In case you haven’t noticed, I’m a lover not a fighter.”

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46. “I get that we can’t be together. And it’s not like I’m so weak-willed that the simple act of saying hello to me will cause me to jump your bones in the hall.”

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47. “As a rule, I don’t enjoy being tossed into closets and having the door shut on my face, but I knew he was protecting me.”

— Amanda Hocking

48. “I still have the same friends I’ve had for the last 15 or 20 years.”

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49. “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.”

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50. “I guess what I’m trying to say is that you can’t live somebody else’s life for them. They have to make their own choices, and sometimes all we can do is learn to live with them.”

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