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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 knew that she wanted me to marry somebody else,and you never told me? He appeared confused by my reaction. It wasn't my place. Maybe it wasn't your place as a tracker, but as the guy making out with me in this bed, yeah,I think it was your place to tell me that I'm supposed to marry someone else.
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I decided to go along with it. If he tried to give me the runaround, I would bolt. I didn't have time to waste on vague answers and evasive language. Matt and Rhys were captive, and Rhys couldn't even sit down.
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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.
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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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And I have two eyes. I’ve seen that little melodrama play out between you and that other tracker. Fish? Flounder? What’s his name?
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During our session, I told Tove about how I'd done mind-speak on Duncan, but it only worked when I was irritated. Using that logic,Tove spent most of the morning trying to irritate me into using it. Sometimes it worked, but most of the time I just got pointlessly annoyed.
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Cause I lit him on fire,” I shrugged and brushed dust from my pants.
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That's kind of creepy.
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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 Tale
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I don't really like fairies.
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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.
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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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He hadn’t been peeping intentionally he’d been trying to sneak into my room. So that was slightly less creepy, I supposed.
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You can bite me if you want. I want you to.
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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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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.
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Everything I went through, he said. For you. It was worth it.
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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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