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Not all prisons have bars

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Amanda Hocking
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: July 12
Novelist
Writer
Rochester
Minnesota
Prisons
Bars
Prison

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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.
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the way it always did.
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I think I draw most inspiration from writers like Richelle Mead and filmmakers like John Hughes. They both really understand the experience of being a teenager and how insistent and intense everything feels, but they're also smart, savvy, and fun.
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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.
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When you told me you loved me, Lily's eyes widened when she looked at Lux, You saved the world.
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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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Don’t be a hero,” I told him sternly. “Protect yourself.
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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.
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I hate that you do this to me. I hate how crazy you make me. I hate you! - Wendy
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I know you’ll be a good Queen, a strong, noble leader, and that’s more than these people deserve,” she said. “But don’t give too much. You need to keep some of yourself for you. And listen to your heart.
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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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His lips brushed against mine. Delicately at first, almost testing to see if this was real.
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I only saw fire and chandeliers and smoke. No people. Not the room. Not even a time frame. Do you know how many chandeliers there are in the south wing alone? What was I supposed to do? Tell everyone to avoid chandeliers forever?
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I don't want to be famous per se, but I want to write books for as long as I can. And I plan on writing a lot.
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I was always writing. When I was a little kid, before I learned how to write, I would tell stories. But as soon I as capable, I started writing. I filled notebooks and notebooks until I got my first computer when I was 11. It never really occurred to me that I would do anything else.
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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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You expect me to believe that you're being held against your will? I raised a skeptical eyebrow. You're roaming around the castle freely. As are you. He turned away from me then. Not all prisons have bars. You should know that better than anyone, Princess.
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Cause I lit him on fire,” I shrugged and brushed dust from my pants.
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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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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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