Top 120 Amanda Hocking Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “My outfit was a black dress with a corset waist, off-the-shoulder sleeves, and a large ball gown skirt. It looked like something someone might‘ve worn to a Gothic wedding. And then they‘d been buried in it for a few months.”

— Amanda Hocking

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

— Amanda Hocking

103. “Because you’re here with me, Jack said. Any night that ends with that can’t be that bad.”

— Amanda Hocking

104. “It was in the fishbowl of the meeting room that everything went completely insane, and this was coming from someone who’d just been visited in a dream by Konstantin Black.”

— Amanda Hocking

105. “He looked at me then, his deep golden eyes meeting mine, and I saw a heat in them that I felt reflecting in my own.”

— Amanda Hocking

106. “As Gideon always said in the opening of his act, There is always something extraordinary in the ordinary.”

— Amanda Hocking

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

— Amanda Hocking

108. “Don’t act on everything your heart says, but make sure you listen to it,” Elora smiled. “Sometimes your heart is right.”

— Amanda Hocking

109. “Tove had blown the doors open with his abilities, and he stood on the other side of them, looking astonishigly bad ass.”

— Amanda Hocking

110. “How did I look at you? I asked thickly. Like you had to, like I was a magnet you were pulled to. There was no choice, he said. And when you look at Jack, it’s because when he’s around, why would you want to look at anything else? You love him the way you could never love me.”

— Amanda Hocking

111. “Unfortunately, zombies aren’t very flammable, and it went out instantly.”

— Amanda Hocking

112. “Are you just gonna stare at Jack or are we gonna go?” Milo asked, poking his head into the bedroom.”

— Amanda Hocking

113. “He stepped into my room with one graceful move, as if entering through bedroom windows was nothing out of the ordinary.”

— Amanda Hocking

114. “I want to be a writer. I do not want to spend 40 hours a week handling e-mails, formatting covers, finding editors, etc.”

— Amanda Hocking

115. “He pointed to a pedal and said, “That one makes it go. So push on it and let’s go.”

— Amanda Hocking

116. “Oh, that?” Marcy scoffed. “What do you mean ‘oh that’? Half your room has been destroyed.”

— Amanda Hocking

117. “I’ve taken every writing class I’ve had available. I took classes in high school, and I took English and writing classes in community college, but I dropped out of college. I also attended a local writing workshop two years ago.”

— Amanda Hocking

118. “Writing has always felt like a compulsion. Even at high school there’d be times when people would ask me if I wanted to go and hang out and I’d sit home and write instead.”

— Amanda Hocking

119. “Once you open your mind to the spirits, you can’t shut it again.”

— Amanda Hocking

120. “Self-publishing is great, but I don’t want to be an icon for it, or anything else.”

— Amanda Hocking

121. “They were unfailing in their love for me, and most of the time they had gotten nothing in return. Maybe that last part was the proof that my mother was right. They only gave, and I only took.”

— Amanda Hocking

122. “It is so contradictory that life can be the worst it‘s ever been and the best it‘s ever been all at once. It‘s strange how love can blossom even in the darkest places.”

— Amanda Hocking

123. “Taking a deep breath, I turned around to face the doors. I went down the hall, prepared to kill my father.”

— Amanda Hocking

124. “It doesn’t matter what you meant. It matters what you do. Intentions are the lies we tell ourselves. Actions are the truth.”

— Amanda Hocking

125. “When I was a little kid, before I learned how to write, I would tell stories.”

— Amanda Hocking

126. “That’s when I realized the chill wasn’t coming from outside – it was coming from within me.”

— Amanda Hocking

127. “My only experience with dances was what I had seen on TV, but it really wasn’t that far off. The theme appeared to be “Crepe Paper in the Gymnasium,” and they had mastered it perfectly.”

— Amanda Hocking

128. “You know, back in the day, when a guy saved a Princess’s life, she would reward him with a kiss...”

— Amanda Hocking

129. “I don’t really like fairies.”

— Amanda Hocking

130. “You know what would be fun? Nobody wants to play Guitar Hero. But you can play the Beatles! You loved the Beatles!”

— Amanda Hocking

131. “He smelled of cold. Like ice and snow on the harshest days of winter.”

— Amanda Hocking

132. “I’m probably gonna have to buy like a massive entertainment center for all of these movies,” Jack said, staring up at his DVD’s. It overwhelmed him for a minute, so he sighed, and finally turned back to look at me. I have no idea what he was planning to say, but his jaw fell open and his eyes widened. “Holy Hell.”

— Amanda Hocking

133. “Wait. Did you just call me brave and beautiful? -Loki.”

— Amanda Hocking

134. “Your boyfriend spent the night sleeping outside your door. I haven’t decided if that’s romantic or creepy yet. Maybe both.”

— Amanda Hocking

135. “You can help me. I’d like it if you did, actually. But whether you do or not, I’m going to find the truth.”

— Amanda Hocking

136. “So much of life hurt, so much of it had been lost. The only way I knew how to survive was to shut everything off, or at least try to. To bury everything I felt down deep inside me, hiding the happiness along with the sadness. But it was killing me. I was exhausted from fighting it, from trying to keep everything inside me inside. And as much as I’d tried to do this all on my own, the one thing I knew for sure was that I couldn’t. I needed people.”

— Amanda Hocking