Amanda Hocking Quotes

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Love--the most wonderful and most terrible thing in the world.

Girls are complicated. The instruction manual that comes with girls is 800 pages, with chapters 14, 19, 26 and 32 missing, and it's badly translated, hard to figure out.

I believe that life is chaotic, a jumble of accidents, ambitions, misconceptions, bold intentions, lazy happenstances, and unintended consequences, yet I also believe that there are connections that illuminate our world, revealing its endless mystery and wonder.

Irrationality interests me more than anything: sometimes it's very dangerous, but it can be incredibly beautiful.

The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.

In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.

Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.

Things are never simple when it comes to the human heart.

Everything around me inspires and influences me. Mainly love - falling in it, losing it, loving it and hating it.

I believe love isn't simple, and it's one of the things that makes people break all the rules.

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.

I think what you learn from relationships is that they are unpredictable.

I think when you don't know where you stand with someone, they can surprise you in their goodness and their badness, and that makes them human.

There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.

… history turns out as always to be too messy, contingent and subject to the vagaries of human agency to be slotted into neat boxes.

If you actually read the 'New Gods' tetralogy, this epic without an ending, it's like dipping your head into madness. You feel a little bit like the Joker for a little while. And I mean that in the best way possible.

Being a parent is beautiful chaos and not at all like how you imagine.

Love is very complicated and it's never black and white, as I'm sure we all know in our lives.

There's no way to know what makes one thing happen and not another. What leads to what. What destroys what. What causes what to flourish or die or take another course. But I was pretty certain as I sat there that tonight that if it hadn't been for Eddie, I wouldn't have found myself on the PCT. And though it was true that everything I felt for him sat like a boulder in my throat, this realization made the boulder sit ever so much lighter. He hadn't loved me well in the end, but he'd loved me well when it mattered.

If someone wants to open this Pandora's box and deal with it, all right, go for it then.

Most of the time-- 99 percent of the time-- you just don't know how and why the threads are looped together, and that's okay. Do a good thing and something bad happens. Do a bad thing and something good happens. Do nothing and everything explodes.

What is the point? We assume that every time we do anything we know what the consequences will be, i.e., more or less what we intend them to be. This is not only not always correct. It is wildly, crazily, stupidly, cross-eyed-blithering-insectly wrong!

For once, you're going to hear something that doesn't fit into your neat, compartmentalized world of order and logic and reason.

The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product.