{"author":"Emily Henry","author_id":"Emily+Henry","total_quotes":14,"quotes":[{"text":"It’s almost funny, in a tragic way, that the fiery thing at the center of my universe did die and that I, a girl whose name is synonymous with summer, am expected to live without it.","author":"Emily Henry","tags":["dead-parents","death","sad","tragic"],"id":14904,"author_id":"Emily+Henry"},{"text":"When you've been lost as I have,' he once said, 'you get good at finding your way home.","author":"Emily Henry","tags":["finding-your-way","home","lost"],"id":52802,"author_id":"Emily+Henry"},{"text":"I don't believe in love at first sight but maybe this is as close as it gets: seeing someone, a person you have no business loving, on a football field one night and thinking, I want you to be mine and I want to be yours. Lying on a closet floor with someone and thinking, I shouldn't know you but I do. Recognizing someone as a part of you before they've even become that person in your life, and knowing, without a doubt, that neither of you will ever be who you are in this exact moment ever again and believing, against all odds, you will continue to belong to one another despite that.","author":"Emily Henry","tags":["fantasy","paranormal","romance","ya","young-adult-romance"],"id":96014,"author_id":"Emily+Henry"},{"text":"My inheritance is grief and sunlight and the ability to choose which to hold on to.","author":"Emily Henry","tags":["choice","grief"],"id":111832,"author_id":"Emily+Henry"},{"text":"Maybe we can stay in denial together forever?' I suggest....'No, I mean, maybe there's a town called Denial, and we can literally move there and forget about college.","author":"Emily Henry","tags":["bestfriend","denial"],"id":120904,"author_id":"Emily+Henry"},{"text":"You're a beautiful and wonderful and sensual and strong golden fawn, she says, followed by That was supposed to say 'my best friend,' but my phone...","author":"Emily Henry","tags":["friendship","girl-friends","teenagers"],"id":184619,"author_id":"Emily+Henry"},{"text":"For a moment we're both silent, staring. I wonder if either of us really sees the other clearly anymore or if we stuck looking at the frozen images of who we used to be.","author":"Emily Henry","tags":["change"],"id":228294,"author_id":"Emily+Henry"},{"text":"We may be different, but in this moment we're feeling the exact same thing: the sad kind of bliss where you realize, suddenly, how perfect your life really has been all along. So perfect it hurts, and you could let yourself weep if you wanted. So perfect that even though everything you know is ending, you truly believe life will continue to be beautiful, even—or maybe especially—in those pure moments of loss.","author":"Emily Henry","tags":["endings","friendship","heartache","loss"],"id":240409,"author_id":"Emily+Henry"},{"text":"Just because you don't know what you want yet, it doesn't mean that there's nothing to want.","author":"Emily Henry","tags":["advice","future","graduation","inspirational"],"id":254494,"author_id":"Emily+Henry"},{"text":"And when you see those good things—and I promise you, there are so many good things—they’re going to be so much brighter for you than they are for other people, just like the abyss always seems deeper and bigger when you stare at it. If you stick it out, it’s all going to feel worth it in the end. Every moment you live, every darkness you face, they’ll all feel worth it when you’re staring light in the face.","author":"Emily Henry","tags":["good","happiness","inspirational","love"],"id":294706,"author_id":"Emily+Henry"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":14,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}