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

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Amanda Hocking
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: July 12
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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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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?
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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’m not a bloody cockroach. What’s all this about? What are you trying to find out?
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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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It feels so weird to be able to just kind of buy things when I want them or need them.
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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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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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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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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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When you dance with the devil, the devil doesn't change. The devil changes you.
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What's your angle? I asked, trying to sound more playful than demanding. Isosceles, Jack quipped.
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Self-publishing is great, but I don't want to be an icon for it, or anything else.
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Tomorrow you will belong to someone else, Finn said. But tonight, you're with me
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Wendy: Why are you staring at me? Finn: Because you're standing in front of me.
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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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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.
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A foolish man thinks he knows everything. A wise man knows he doesn't.
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