Jennifer Armintrout
Jennifer Armintrout
Jennifer Armintroutis an American author best known for a series of urban fantasy novels known as the Blood Ties series, published by Mira Books. The books chronicle the life of Dr. Carrie Ames, an emergency room doctor who must adapt to life as a vampire after being attacked by one of her patients. Armintrout's Blood Ties series has been published in five countries, with the first volume making USA Today's top 150 book list. Armintrout also publishes erotica under the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth11 July 1980
CountryUnited States of America
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.
Let the meek have the kingdom of heaven. The strong shall rule on earth.
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.
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.
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)
Its far easier to brush off death if the death in question seems impossible or improbable as a personal threat.
Occasionally, the horrors of life in North Korea do show up in our American satire.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If you're afraid of something, face it. Fear is irrational. The only way to conquer your fear is to stand next to it.
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.
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.