{"author":"Amy Plum","author_id":"Amy+Plum","total_quotes":11,"quotes":[{"text":"I'm not always the best at expressing myself to you, so I'm taking advantage of the fact that I will be completely unresponsive when you read this, and therefore incapable of messing things up.","author":"Amy Plum","tags":["confession","letter","romantic"],"id":2754,"author_id":"Amy+Plum"},{"text":"I spent the rest of the day in someone else's story. The rare moments that I put the book down, my own pain returned in burning stabs.","author":"Amy Plum","tags":["books","die-for-me","escape","kate","loneliness","reading"],"id":88310,"author_id":"Amy+Plum"},{"text":"Before I saw you, I hadn’t cared for anyone for . . . Well, for the good part of a century, and it felt like my heart had been permanently disconnected. I wasn’t even looking anymore. And without expecting anything . . . Without any hope at all, suddenly you were here.","author":"Amy Plum","tags":["love","soulmates"],"id":107656,"author_id":"Amy+Plum"},{"text":"The only way I survive is to never stop moving. I make sure I'm always surrounded by others, so I won't have time to think and end up imploding like a dying star.","author":"Amy Plum","tags":["heartbreak","jules","love","revenants"],"id":139801,"author_id":"Amy+Plum"},{"text":"He leaned forward and opened his door, politely standing aside to let me by before following me in. There are some advantages to dating a guy from another era, I thought. Though I am a big believer in gender equality, chivalry scores high in my book.","author":"Amy Plum","tags":["chivalry","dating","men"],"id":193039,"author_id":"Amy+Plum"},{"text":"I can't promise you an ordinary experience, Kate. I wish I could transform myself into a normal man and be there for you, always, without the trauma that defines my life as 'the walking dead.' Since that isn't possible, I can only reassure you that I will do everything in my power to make it up to you. To give you more than a normal boyfriend could. I have no idea what that will mean, exactly, but I'm looking forward to finding out. With you.","author":"Amy Plum","tags":["love"],"id":216797,"author_id":"Amy+Plum"},{"text":"My mom said I was an escapist at heart.... That I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one.","author":"Amy Plum","tags":["truth"],"id":236721,"author_id":"Amy+Plum"},{"text":"I understand it, but I don't like it. I wish we could all be together like before: best friends, not heartbroken strangers.","author":"Amy Plum","tags":["heartbreak","love","love-hurts","love-triangle"],"id":261435,"author_id":"Amy+Plum"},{"text":"Well, spit on my empty grave--if it ain't the attack of the Disney princesses!","author":"Amy Plum","tags":["disney","humor"],"id":315892,"author_id":"Amy+Plum"},{"text":"Besides the alternate universe offered by a book, the quiet space of a museum was my favorite place to go. My mom said I was an escapist at heart . . . That I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one. It’s true that I’ve always been able to yank myself out of this world and plunge myself into another.","author":"Amy Plum","tags":["book","escape","imagination-reading","read","universe","world"],"id":354189,"author_id":"Amy+Plum"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":11,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}