Amanda Leigh > Quotes

“Are you going to sit or are you afraid I’ll suck your blood?”

“No, I am not afraid.”

“Then come sit next to me.”

~ Trent and Kiara: Scarred”
― Amanda Leigh, Scarred

“Why can’t I
quiet the thoughts
running through my head?
Put down the pen
and climb
snugly
into bed?”
― Amanda Leigh, Thousands of Mornings: Original Poetry and Photography

“Time passes too fast.
Like a hummingbird flying by,
it’s just a blur to my eyes.”
― Amanda Leigh, Thousands of Mornings: Original Poetry and Photography

“Well that's too bad.

Because it's too late.

She's gone.

She slipped away.”
― Amanda Leigh, Thousands of Mornings: Original Poetry and Photography

“You just noticed
the disguise that she wears
from day to day?

Well that’s too bad.
Because it’s too late,
she’s gone.

She slipped away.”
― Amanda Leigh, Thousands of Mornings: Original Poetry and Photography

“It still is on the run,
time that is.”
― Amanda Leigh, Thousands of Mornings: Original Poetry and Photography

“You see another who looks thirsty.
Walking over to them, you nudge them on the back.
They look at you, and you gesture toward the lake with your head.
You and the other walk over there, and you are content and you are happy.
You are home.”
― Amanda Leigh, Thousands of Mornings: Original Poetry and Photography

“I was so close to her that I could lean down just a bit...her lips were so close...I could lean down and kiss those full pink lips. I heard her heartbeat speeding up in her chest and it almost shattered any control that I had.”
― Amanda Leigh, Scarred

“It still is on the run,
time that is.

Sometimes it seems like everything’s changing;
my whole world is rearranging.

Everything’s different,
and yet everything’s the same.

Time is just a crazy game.”
― Amanda Leigh, Thousands of Mornings: Original Poetry and Photography

“Time is just a crazy game.”
― Amanda Leigh, Thousands of Mornings: Original Poetry and Photography

“Everything’s different,
and yet everything’s the same.

Time is just a crazy game.”
― Amanda Leigh, Thousands of Mornings: Original Poetry and Photography

“Sometimes it seems like everything’s changing;
my whole world is rearranging.”
― Amanda Leigh, Thousands of Mornings: Original Poetry and Photography

“Days, hours, minutes,
seconds slip by
unappreciated, unnoticed.

Notice them.
Appreciate them.
And treat them
like they could be
your last.”
― Amanda Leigh, Thousands of Mornings: Original Poetry and Photography

“If you have a
strong stomach
read on.”
― Amanda Leigh, Holiday Hospital Stay Poetry Collection 2012: Original Poetry

“I don’t understand
how everything moves so quickly.
They say time flies when you’re having fun,
but I wasn’t always having fun.
Even when I was mad or sad,
time was always on the run.”
― Amanda Leigh, Thousands of Mornings: Original Poetry and Photography

“More than the attraction - like a magnetic pull - between us, more than the tiny nagging voice that said he wouldn't hesitate to drink my blood and what then? Did he give me any reason to trust him? As far as a reason not to trust him, this was a reason, right here.”
― Amanda Leigh, Scarred

“I ate a rabbit for you."

"Is that supposed to be romantic?"

"Why? Do you want it to be romantic?"

Trent and Kiara, Scarred”
― Amanda Leigh, Scarred

“If I'm supposed to be SO powerful then why can't I destroy that thing?”
― Amanda Leigh, Scarred

“We held each other's gaze for a long moment and I willed my breath to come evenly instead of the uneven gasps that I felt. Trent's eyes drifted down to my lips and then back up to my eyes again before we wrenched our eyes away from one another.”
― Amanda Leigh, Scarred

“The flames that popped up wouldn't stop coming. Like they were coming straight from her soul. Straight from her anger. Her rage coming out of her to spread like wildfire over the forest. That was her darkness. Her power and the potential it had to consume her.”
― Amanda Leigh, Scarred

“They say there is a fine line between love and hate. I once loved Kaleib like a brother, now I hated him with the same conviction.”
― Amanda Leigh, Scarred

“The cloaked figure leaned over and I turned my head just as I heard the crack of bones.”
― Amanda Leigh, Scarred

“I bit the inside of my cheek. I wanted to hit him. Not just for his presumptuousness, but for the way my heart jumped to my throat at his words and how his eyes looked me over.”
― Amanda Leigh, Scarred

“You can come if you want, but I'm going with or without you.

Unless you're scared?”
― Amanda Leigh, Scarred

“Her voice.

That's what drew me to her.

It was gorgeous, perfect, angelic.

Ironic, that a demon should be drawn to the voice of an angel.”
― Amanda Leigh, Scarred