Amanda Hocking
So we know she's safe and taken care of?" Daniel asked, and she nodded. "Good. Then why don't we do something that you want to do?" "Like what?" "I don't know. What do you like to do?" "Um...." Her stomach rumbled, since crying always made her hungry. "I like eating breakfast." "That's so weird." Daniel grinned. "Because I like making French toast." "That works out, doesn't it?Collection: Taken
You really do hate me, don't you? I mean, destroying someone's ice-cream cone? That's vicious." Her cheeks reddened. "I didn't see you there. Honestly." She wiped at his shirt more frantically, as if she could prevent it from staining if she rubbed hard enough. "Oh, now I see your plan, and it's far more devious than I thought." Daniel smirked. "You were looking for an excuse to grope me.Collection: Hate
My mama didn't raise any fools and she didn't raise any heroes.Collection: Hero
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.Collection: Growing Up
I’m not a bloody cockroach. What’s all this about? What are you trying to find out?Collection: Trying
A foolish man thinks he knows everything. A wise man knows he doesn't," Finn replied absently, still looking down at the book. "That's such a fortune-cookie answer," I said with a laugh, and even he smirked at me.Collection: Wise
Ready?" Tove asked without looking at me. He started walking before I answered. "Duncan, you don't need to come with us," I told him as I hurried after Tove. Duncan followed me the way he always did, but he slowed. "It's probably best if he does," Tove said, tucking his hair behind his ears. "Why?" I asked, but Duncan smiled, excited to be included. "We need someone to test on," Tove replied matter-of-factly, and Duncan's smile instantly faded.Collection: Hair
While it did smash, breaking a bottle over someone’s head requires a lot more force than movies had led me to believe.Collection: Believe
Oh yeah. That's why. Like a fairy tale. I was marrying the Prince. I just happened to be in love with the pauper.Collection: Fairy Tale
Right then, it didn't matter what his reasons were. All I knew that I was sick of him breaking my heart.Collection: Heart
Well,I hope you like the ring." He held it out to me, he velvet lid still closed. "My mom hates it." "I'm sure I'll love it,then," I said, and he laughed.Collection: Mom
How could you do nothing to him, if you fought so hard?” she asked. “I’m lust and he’s wrath!” he yelled. “I’m a lover, he’s a fighter!” Virtue - A Fairy TaleCollection: Wrath
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.Collection: Simple
Yeah, but they're PURPLE pants," Bobby said as if that made some kind of distinction. "Hence, I'm awesome.Collection: Purple
You know what would be fun? Nobody wants to play Guitar Hero. But you can play the Beatles! You loved the Beatles!Collection: Fun
You can bite me if you want. I want you to.Collection: Want
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.Collection: Doors
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.Collection: Castles
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.Collection: Love Is
I have a screened in porch, and it's nice to curl up with a book outside when it's raining, especially an old battered classic like 'Pride & Prejudice & Zombies.Collection: Nice
His lips brushed against mine. Delicately at first, almost testing to see if this was real.Collection: Real
He stepped into my room with one graceful move, as if entering through bedroom windows was nothing out of the ordinary.Collection: Moving
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.Collection: Eye
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.Collection: Love You
You're not very good at being contemplative," Milo said. "You always sound like some bad caricature of a philosopher, like those fortune cookies with 'Confucius say' or the Nietzsche guy from Mystery Men that's always saying 'when you walk on the ground, the ground walks on you.Collection: Men
He hadn’t been peeping intentionally; he’d been trying to sneak into my room. So that was slightly less creepy, I supposed.Collection: Creepy
I heard you're campaigning on my behalf." He walked over to me. "That wouldn't be because you'd miss me too much if I were gone,would it?" "Don't be absurd," I scoffed. "I don't condone murder, even for people like you." "People like me,huh?" He cocked an eyebrow. "You mean devilishly handsome, debonair young men who come to sweep rebellious princesses of their feet?" "You came to kidnap me, not sweep me off my feet," I said,but he waved his hand at the idea. "Semantics.Collection: Princess
That's kind of creepy.Collection: Creepy
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.Collection: Mean
In case you haven't noticed, I'm a lover not a fighter.Collection: Lovers
I wanted to show you that it's not all cold and intimidating," Finn explained. "I wanted you to see something warm and beautiful.Collection: Beautiful
Forever is a really long time, you know? What do you do with forever?" "The same thing you do when you don't have forever." He smiled wanly. "Live.Collection: Long
What I told you before is still true. I want to know that when you're with me, it's because you want to be, not because you have to be.Collection: Want
And I'm stuck in it with no way out. I love you, and I can't stop, and you don't even care!Collection: Love You
If Peter Pan had been real, he would've gone mad and killed everyone in Neverland.Collection: Real
Princess." He smiled up at me, but it 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.Collection: Princess
You should get married more often," Loki teased. "It makes you feisty.Collection: Feisty
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.Collection: Dungeons
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!Collection: Pain
An oblique angle,” Jack said, and his bout of jealousy was quickly replaced with glee. “Ha! I told you I would work that in!Collection: Glee
I paused outside your door to see if you were awake, and you clearly were, so I came in." "You still can't just barge in." I crossed my arms over my chest. "Would you like me to go back out and knock?" Loki gestured to the doors behind him. "Would that make you feel better?Collection: Feel Better
When I said it aloud, it sounded terribly creepy, which is why I had said it aloud.Collection: Creepy
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.Collection: Morning
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?Collection: Doors
You're killing me here! You are far more dangerous than I am!Collection: Killing
I look at you because I can't look away.Collection: Looks
He kissed me desperately, like a drowning man and I was his oxygen.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Stupid
This was good, except that now I had two crazed, burning zombies standing between me and the exit, plus another one that wasn’t on fire. I had not thought this plan through at all.Collection: Fire