{"author":"Gwenn Wright","author_id":"Gwenn+Wright","total_quotes":41,"quotes":[{"text":"I can also speak to small woodland creatures,” he grins at me.","author":"Gwenn Wright","tags":["darrell-holloway","flannery-flynn","ghosts","gwenn-wright","horror","paranormal","pnr","suspense","ya-pnr","young-adult"],"id":592,"author_id":"Gwenn+Wright"},{"text":"For a moment she believed he had left, but as she shifted away from the wall she sensed him there beside the bed. He was very close.\tWretched curiosity!\t But she would fight it and not look.\t“Katherine,” he whispered, his breath rolling in a warm wave across her cheek. A traitor tear spilled out, the humiliation was too much to contain. Gently, a finger dabbed the wetness from her skin. He said it again, softly, as though it pleased him just to say it, “Katherine.”\t“Viktor!” the accented voice bellowed from below. And then the shadow was gone. \tDarkness overwhelmed her then and carried her away to a land of crows and mocking strangers.","author":"Gwenn Wright","tags":["love","romance","romantic-suspense","thriller","tragic","young-adult-readers","young-adult-series"],"id":23686,"author_id":"Gwenn+Wright"},{"text":"My dear lady, you have no idea just how scandalous I can be. ~Peter Viktor von Strassenberg, 1905.","author":"Gwenn Wright","tags":["cheating","gothic","gwenn-wright","love","relationships","romance","von-strassenberg","ya","young-adult"],"id":26321,"author_id":"Gwenn+Wright"},{"text":"Katherine stared intently at the cold, hard steel. She knew it would be loaded and that, if need be, there was extra ammunition in the back of the drawer. She would not be one of those girls, the ones who sit idly by and wait for the answers to come to them.","author":"Gwenn Wright","tags":["love","romance","suspense","teenage-love","young-adult"],"id":26751,"author_id":"Gwenn+Wright"},{"text":"It seemed to me that Mr. Forrester would approve of a woman who could follow him in conversation and not be baffled by ledgers and currency conversions. I had grossly overestimated him.","author":"Gwenn Wright","tags":["chick-lit","family-saga","gothic-romance","historical-fiction","strong-heroine","suspense","von-strassenberg","young-adult"],"id":30574,"author_id":"Gwenn+Wright"},{"text":"Even then his thoughts did not turn to prayer but to Abbie and to what she would think about his lack of prayerfulness and that surely she would have immediately broken out in prayer. “Doesn’t matter now,” he whispered and felt that he could not cry out to God.~William Drexler the Third.","author":"Gwenn Wright","tags":["christian-fiction","gwenn-wright","prayer","romance","von-strassenberg","william-drexler"],"id":37601,"author_id":"Gwenn+Wright"},{"text":"You can cower,” she told them in a clear voice, wrapping her long shaking fingers around the cold iron bars. “But I will stand.","author":"Gwenn Wright","tags":["courage","feminism","gwenn-wright","strong-female","von-strassenberg","ya","ya-historical"],"id":51967,"author_id":"Gwenn+Wright"},{"text":"Maybe love, unfathomable love, was too much for people, so they had traded it for something easier.","author":"Gwenn Wright","tags":["love","marriage","teen-fiction","young-adult"],"id":63165,"author_id":"Gwenn+Wright"},{"text":"A smile is hidden beneath the mustache, it crinkles the corners of his hooded eyes. “I didn’t. I have other business in town and I told my friend I would attend to the matter of his son, as he could not do so himself.”\t“Very kind of you.”\t“Yes. I have been looking forward to it for quite some time.”\tDaddy’s lemonade is almost gone, he sips it carefully, turning his eyes back to the water. “Looking forward to seeing the lad or to conducting your business?” Daddy is toying with him. \t“Both. You see, I had never actually met his son.” The glass rests against Daddy’s lips, unmoving. Mr. Geyer watches him closely. “But now I have, so I can get on with my,” he fixes his own gaze on the water, as though trying to see whatever it is that has transfixed my father, “business.","author":"Gwenn Wright","tags":["bluestocking-girl","detective","geyer","gwenn-wright","historical-fiction","mystery","viktor-von-strassenberg","von-strassenberg","ya","young-adult"],"id":65152,"author_id":"Gwenn+Wright"},{"text":"I had turned to leave and he had called after me. “Miss Maria, I kin no other woman who could be wearing men’s trousers and be dripping such as ye are and look quite so lovely. It’s a right shame your mother is marrying you off to that great sot!”I had turned to call back to him, “I doubt very much we will have to worry about that after today!","author":"Gwenn Wright","tags":["corsets","dark-romance","historical-fiction","scotland","scotsman","scottish","suspense"],"id":74410,"author_id":"Gwenn+Wright"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":41,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}