Amanda Hocking Quotes

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.

Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced 'mirage'.

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

Darling girl, blinded by foolish thoughts of love. How to tell her that the hearts of men were not so easily won. If won, rarely kept.

Men fell in love with Gilda, but they wake up with me.

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

My life is PG-13 sometimes, and I really want Josh Grogan to propose to me, and he just won't do it.

Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

I kept thinking I was always going to meet the right man, but I never did. Kept waiting for this knight in shining armour. 'When's he coming? He's taking a long time, isn't he?'

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.

I thought I was loved.

A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

A few years ago, I fell in love with a man before realising he was married.

We get divorce, we get conned, someone we love dies, or we can't find anybody to love us or somebody breaks our heart and we realize this fairy tale ain't fair. So we suffer.

There’s no such thing as handsome princes, she told herself. There’s no such thing as happily ever after.

Everyone wants to grow up to be a faerie princess. Trust me, It's overrated

Ah love, let us be true to one another, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams; so various, so beautiful, so new, hath really neither joy nor love nor life.

You don't always marry the love of your life.

Nothing else ever mattered to me, and you weren’t even real. All I ever wanted was you.

Then there were the shabti, magical figurines that were supposed to come to life when summoned. A few months ago, I’d fallen for a girl named Zia Rashid, who’d turned out to be a shabti. Falling in love for the first time had been hard enough. But when the girl you like turns out to be ceramic and cracks to pieces before your eyes—well, it gives “breaking your heart” a new meaning.