Jennifer Armintrout Quotes

• Strength isn't about bearing a cross of grief or shame. Strength comes from choosing your own path, and living with the consequences.

  Jennifer Armintrout

  Inspirational, Strength, Grief

  Jennifer Armintrout (2008). “Blood Ties Bundle: Blood Ties Book One: The Turning\Blood Ties Book Two: Possession\Blood Ties Book Three: Ashes to Ashes\Blood Ties Book Four: All Souls' Night”, p.379, MIRA

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• I'd never been a good damsel in distress. I was a "hands-on" damsel.

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  Strong, Hands, Damsel In Distress

  Jennifer Armintrout (2007). “Blood Ties Book Two: Possession”, p.106, MIRA

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• I have to go. I have a finite amount of life left and I don't want to spend it arguing with you.

  Jennifer Armintrout

  Love, Women, Want

  Jennifer Armintrout (2008). “Blood Ties Bundle: Blood Ties Book One: The Turning\Blood Ties Book Two: Possession\Blood Ties Book Three: Ashes to Ashes\Blood Ties Book Four: All Souls' Night”, MIRA

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• Writers generally get into writing because they want to write, not because they want to be independent publishers, and you can't really fault someone for saying, 'What I'm doing right now works, so there's no reason to change it.'

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  Independent, Writing, Faults

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• If you're afraid of something, face it. Fear is irrational. The only way to conquer your fear is to stand next to it.

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  Way, Next, Faces

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• No one's place in this world is guaranteed. Not everyone is going to get a happy ending. But life isn't about how it ends. It's about the moments between. It's about the small things. The way our loved ones laugh. The sight of a butterfly in the sunlight after a year or two in the darkness. The love and support of an old friend. They might not be with us in body, but they are with us in spirit. ... Because every day, on this planet, people are born and people die and stranger things happen.(Armintrout, All Souls' Night, 367)

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  Butterfly, Night, Sight

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• As white authors, bloggers, and readers, we must stop promoting diversity as a business opportunity or a chance to buy ally points with our disposable income.

  Jennifer Armintrout

  Opportunity, White, Diversity

  "Fiction’s Big, White Problem" by Jennifer Armintrout, jennytrout.com. March 18, 2014.

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• Movies like 'The Interview' and 'Team America: World Police' don't often show the realities of life in North Korea and the human rights violations perpetrated by the government there.

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  Team, Reality, America

  "The Elephant in The Interview" by Jennifer Armintrout, jennytrout.com. December 19, 2014.

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• Let the meek have the kingdom of heaven. The strong shall rule on earth.

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  Strong, Heaven, Earth

  Jennifer Armintrout (2012). “Blood Ties Book Three: Ashes to Ashes”, p.252, Harlequin

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• It was the damnedest thing, life. Once you decide exactly how things are going to go, something or someone comes along and messes it all up.

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  Mess

  Jennifer Armintrout (2012). “Blood Ties Book Three: Ashes to Ashes”, p.263, Harlequin

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• I am sorry the only outlet for her troubled mind was in clumsy foreplay with an inadequate partner." He threw the rest of her sandwich at the swinging door as she passed through it.

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  Sorry, Doors, Mind

  Jennifer Armintrout (2008). “Blood Ties Bundle: Blood Ties Book One: The Turning\Blood Ties Book Two: Possession\Blood Ties Book Three: Ashes to Ashes\Blood Ties Book Four: All Souls' Night”, MIRA

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• Because Melissa McCarthy actually is a fat woman, she isnt allowed to make brash statements about body acceptance. She has to apologize for her body.

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  Acceptance, Body, Apologizing

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• The belief that a person can and should only feel grief over one sad event at a time is a truly disturbing estimate of our emotional capacity.

  Jennifer Armintrout

  Grief, Emotional, Events

  “I Have No Sympathy.” by Jenny Trout, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 5, 2014.

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• If we truly seek diversity in fiction, we have to let the needs of others come before our need to define ourselves as social justice allies.

  Jennifer Armintrout

  Justice, Diversity, Allies

  "Fiction’s Big, White Problem" by Jenny Trout, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 19, 2014.

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• The attitude of, I will never self-publish, coming from any author, indicates that they have never been in a position where it is their only option.

  Jennifer Armintrout

  Attitude, Self, Position

  "Our Exclusionary Attitudes Toward Self-Publishing Must Change" by Jenny Trout, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 15, 2014.

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• Occasionally, the horrors of life in North Korea do show up in our American satire.

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  Korea, Horror, Satire

  "The Elephant in The Interview" by Jenny Trout, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 22, 2014.

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• Its far easier to brush off death if the death in question seems impossible or improbable as a personal threat.

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  Impossible, Easier, Brushes

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• One minute she acts like she wants to be with me and I'm the one rejecting her. The next, she's got this barbed wire fence and barking dogs around her, like I can't even ask her the simplest questions." "And here I was assuming you didn't care about her." Stabbing his fingers through his hair, he groaned, "I don't!" "And you make it perfectly clear." Men. Idiots.

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  Dog, Men, Hair

  Jennifer Armintrout (2007). “Blood Ties Book Three: Ashes to Ashes”, p.107, MIRA

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• Well, I always did want to go out in a Braveheart kind of way. I'll just have to think of something cool to yell before they cut my head off.

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  Cutting, Thinking, Want

  Jennifer Armintrout (2007). “Blood Ties Book Three: Ashes to Ashes”, p.303, MIRA

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• I couldn't take much more of this. Being the object two men competed for wasn't as glamorous as it sounded in the movies. The two men who both wanted one hundred percent of my time weren't dashing, international playboys. They were undead and surprisingly immature, considering the youngest was just over a hundred years old.

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  Men, Years, Two

  Jennifer Armintrout (2008). “Blood Ties Bundle: Blood Ties Book One: The Turning\Blood Ties Book Two: Possession\Blood Ties Book Three: Ashes to Ashes\Blood Ties Book Four: All Souls' Night”, MIRA

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• I'm sorry I'm not more cultured. I'll watch PBS. And cut people open for fun. Will that be better? Will you be less embarrassed to be my fledgling then?

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  Sorry, Fun, Cutting

  Jennifer Armintrout (2006). “Blood Ties Book One: The Turning”, p.321, MIRA

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