Amanda

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Amanda is Currently Reading

Amanda is currently reading

This Is How We End Things

by R.J. Jacobs (Goodreads Author)

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Northern Lights (His Dark Materials, #1)

by Philip Pullman

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Amanda’s Quotes

“I closed my eyes. I forced myself to relax, to remember that here, now, and always, I was the predator.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Never Fade

42 likes

“All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won’t be the truth: it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

tags: birth, children, myth, story, truth

304 likes

“They want you to think that darkness or evil is only something that gets inflicted on you by the outside world, but I know better, and I think the freak does, too. Sometimes the darkness lives inside you, and sometimes it wins.”
― Alexandra Bracken, In Time

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“It's easy, there's a trick to it, you do it or you die.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

tags: inspirational, life, magic

104 likes

“Although emotionally delicate and eminently bruisable, teenagers are short on empathy. That comes later in life, if it comes at all.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

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