{"author":"Amy Engel","author_id":"Amy+Engel","total_quotes":23,"quotes":[{"text":"Often, when I am able to check out a book, I read it a dozen times before returning it, desperate to remain lost in the magic of someone else's story.","author":"Amy Engel","tags":["amy-engel","books","bookworm","escape","fiction","magic","reading","stories","the-book-of-ivy"],"id":9336,"author_id":"Amy+Engel"},{"text":"You’re easy to read, Ivy, but the whole book of you is complicated.","author":"Amy Engel","tags":["dystopian-romance","young-adult","young-adult-romance"],"id":59488,"author_id":"Amy+Engel"},{"text":"And maybe that's love, too - feeling the other person's hurts like your own.","author":"Amy Engel","tags":["bishop","hurt","ivy","love"],"id":59950,"author_id":"Amy+Engel"},{"text":"Sometimes it's a revelation, even to me, how much more comfortable I am with cruelty than with kindness.","author":"Amy Engel","tags":["cruelty"],"id":64671,"author_id":"Amy+Engel"},{"text":"Roanoke girls never last long around here. In the end, we either run or we die.","author":"Amy Engel","tags":["die","run"],"id":66713,"author_id":"Amy+Engel"},{"text":"I don't understand how the pain of losing him can be a pale shadow in comparison to the pain of finding him again.","author":"Amy Engel","tags":["loss","love","pain","ya","young-adult"],"id":72606,"author_id":"Amy+Engel"},{"text":"My mission is not to make him happy and bear his children and be his wife. My mission is to kill him.","author":"Amy Engel","tags":["dystopian-romance","young-adult","young-adult-romance"],"id":78099,"author_id":"Amy+Engel"},{"text":"I'm glad she's not faking affection. It's more honest than what her husband is doing, at least. Dislike is an emotion I can respect.","author":"Amy Engel","tags":["erin-lattimer","fake","honesty","ivy"],"id":90421,"author_id":"Amy+Engel"},{"text":"And I understand in a way I never have before that loving someone is always going to feel like flying - the unthinkable drop, the fear of falling, the heart-in-your-throat thrill. It is always going to be impossible until the moment that it's not and you're soaring on pure faith, your altitude completely dependant upon something you can't control.","author":"Amy Engel","tags":["love","trust"],"id":119665,"author_id":"Amy+Engel"},{"text":"I want to be someone strong and brave enough to make hard choices. But I want to be fair and loving enough to make the right ones.","author":"Amy Engel","tags":["amy-engel","brave","bravery","choice","courage","decisions","love","string","the-book-of-ivy"],"id":133436,"author_id":"Amy+Engel"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":23,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}