{"author":"Cassandra Giovanni","author_id":"Cassandra+Giovanni","total_quotes":23,"quotes":[{"text":"Death abides by no one's rules...It takes what pleases it without consciousness to its decisions. It destroys what it will. It took the pieces of perfection I once knew and shattered them. Now what remains are shards of a dream, drawing blood with every step.","author":"Cassandra Giovanni","tags":["beautifully-flawed-series","contemporary-romance","dreams","flawed-perfection","guilt","mourning","na-romance","new-adult","remorse","shattered-dreams"],"id":29355,"author_id":"Cassandra+Giovanni"},{"text":"No perfection can last forever. Time tears at it; wears it down until it's nothing, just an empty shell.","author":"Cassandra Giovanni","tags":["broken-heart","romance","sob-story","story-of-the-broken-hearted"],"id":30815,"author_id":"Cassandra+Giovanni"},{"text":"This world tainted everything it touched, and nothing good was left—could be left – beneath its menacing gaze.","author":"Cassandra Giovanni","tags":["after-the-collapse","all-we-know-is-falling","love","new-adult","post-apoc","romance","the-fall","the-fall-series","world-corrupt"],"id":48050,"author_id":"Cassandra+Giovanni"},{"text":"I am threatened by the resolve that you are my soul. You are my being, you are every breath I take, you are my home, you are my sweet sin.","author":"Cassandra Giovanni","tags":["romantic-suspense","ya-romance"],"id":54736,"author_id":"Cassandra+Giovanni"},{"text":"I know I’m the one who has shattered the perfection that was our souls as one.","author":"Cassandra Giovanni","tags":["anger","break-ups","greiving","heartbroken","love","love-hurts","nothing-left","pain","regret","remorse","shattered-dreams","shattered-souls"],"id":99927,"author_id":"Cassandra+Giovanni"},{"text":"For so long music has been my heart, but now it's you...You're my heart.","author":"Cassandra Giovanni","tags":["im-with-the-band","love-story","musician","romance"],"id":110159,"author_id":"Cassandra+Giovanni"},{"text":"Writing isn't about creating perfect characters. There's no such thing. It's about creating characters that are real; flawed-- yet beautiful, in that they know they need another person. Needing someone else doesn't make them weak; if they believed all they needed was them self, they would be. A strong heroine isn't afraid to admit that a best friend, or soul mate, is exactly what they need at one moment or another. A strong heroine never stands alone. They stand tall; they believe in who they are. They are perfect in every human flaw, because as humans we are flawed. And in every flaw, I see the perfection of their souls. Writers breath life into simple words and create beings--flaws and all.","author":"Cassandra Giovanni","tags":["flaws","human-nature","wisdom","writing"],"id":128987,"author_id":"Cassandra+Giovanni"},{"text":"Tell me why it feels like you're a part of my soul?","author":"Cassandra Giovanni","tags":["love-story","meant-to-be","romance"],"id":174459,"author_id":"Cassandra+Giovanni"},{"text":"Tonight they granted at least one wish,” I whispered, and I lowered my head so our lips drifted over one another. “I love you Adam, no matter how lost you are…or I am…I will only ever love you.","author":"Cassandra Giovanni","tags":["heartbreak","heartbreaking","love","love-story","na-romance","pieces-of-perfection"],"id":219784,"author_id":"Cassandra+Giovanni"},{"text":"I’ve never had a reason to survive—no reason to question the way things were. I lived because I was told to…now I live because I want to. I survive because I want to know what is outside the deception we’re buried in, and I want to experience it with you. You’re the only person I’ve ever trusted, and now you’re the reason I’m going to fight. I don’t know how we’re going to make it out of here, but we’ll find a way. We’ll find a better life.","author":"Cassandra Giovanni","tags":["better-life","fight-for-love","forbidden-love","love-is-right","love-story","post-apoc","romance","romantic"],"id":221487,"author_id":"Cassandra+Giovanni"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":23,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}