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

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Amanda Hocking
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: July 12
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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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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.
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Because you're here with me, Jack said. Any night that ends with that can't be that bad
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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I still have the same friends I've had for the last 15 or 20 years.
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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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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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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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But you're the hardest thing I've ever done, and you're also the best. So... I think that's the moral of the story here. Anything worth having is worth fighting for.
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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.
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It feels so weird to be able to just kind of buy things when I want them or need them.
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I usually plan to read a book for a half-hour before bed, but then I end up staying awake until 3 A.M. to finish it. Fortunately, my dog doesn't mind when I keep the bedside lamp on.
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He kissed me desperately, like a drowning man and I was his oxygen.
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