That's when I realized the chill wasn't coming from outside—it was coming from within me.

— Amanda Hocking

The desperation was coming off you in waves. You were all but begging to dance with me. I am doing you a favor.

— Amanda Hocking

The sun had begun its descent toward the horizon, and the sounds of the carnival played like a familiar song behind me.

— Amanda Hocking

The way it always did.

— Amanda Hocking

This is the way the world ends; not with a bang or a whimper, but with zombies breaking down the back door.

— Amanda Hocking

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.

— Amanda Hocking

Unfortunately, zombies aren’t very flammable, and it went out instantly.

— Amanda Hocking

When I said it aloud, it sounded terribly creepy, which is why I had said it aloud.

— Amanda Hocking

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

— Amanda Hocking

When you told me you loved me," Lily's eyes widened when she looked at Lux, "You saved the world.

— Amanda Hocking