{"author":"Heather Anastasiu","author_id":"Heather+Anastasiu","total_quotes":16,"quotes":[{"text":"He pulled me closer until his lips breathed me in, until we were sharing one breath.","author":"Heather Anastasiu","tags":["being-in-love","falling-in-love","in-love","kissing","lips","love"],"id":10059,"author_id":"Heather+Anastasiu"},{"text":"Everything was so much sharper without the Link fogging me--sights, sounds, smells. It was exhilarating and shocking and terrifying. I knew my emotions had grown too strong. They were dangerous to the Community. They were dangerous to me.But still, I wanted color. I wanted to soar with happiness even if it meant dealing with the weight of fear and guilt, too. I wanted to live. And that meant that I couldn't give the glitching up. At least not yet. Just a little bit longer.","author":"Heather Anastasiu","tags":["dystopia","life","live","living","sci-fi","science-fiction"],"id":104871,"author_id":"Heather+Anastasiu"},{"text":"I wanted color. I wanted to soar with happiness even if it meant dealing with the weight of fear and guilt, too. I wanted to live.","author":"Heather Anastasiu","tags":["happiness","happy","life","living","optimism","optimistic","positive","positivity"],"id":123604,"author_id":"Heather+Anastasiu"},{"text":"Beauty, happiness, they're things so big they can't capture them with their scientific words. It's like what they used to call magic.","author":"Heather Anastasiu","tags":["beauty","feeling-infinite","happiness","infinite","magic"],"id":132939,"author_id":"Heather+Anastasiu"},{"text":"His lips ever so gently touched mine, and suddenly I felt everything stirring inside me grow wings, let loose, and fly.","author":"Heather Anastasiu","tags":["being-in-love","falling-in-love","feeling-infinite","in-love","kiss","kissing","love"],"id":167344,"author_id":"Heather+Anastasiu"},{"text":"My whole body sank forward into his arms. His lips moved against mine, exploring my mouth so gently. I tried to mimic his movements--slowly, uncertainly, until I didn't have to think about it at all. It just felt right. He let out a soft moan at my reaction and cupped his hands behind my head, pulling me closer until I couldn't tell where my mouth ended and his began. A liquid sensation swooped throughout my stomach. It was the most amazing thing I'd ever felt and it kept growing, the vibrating heat expanding outward. I was surprised I was still able to stand.","author":"Heather Anastasiu","tags":["being-in-love","falling-in-love","in-love","kiss","kissing","love"],"id":189355,"author_id":"Heather+Anastasiu"},{"text":"I loved you before I even knew the name for it. Everyday I'd sit beside you, inhaling your scent, looking at your beautiful face. Every night, dreaming about you. You eclipsed everything else. It was you. Always you.","author":"Heather Anastasiu","tags":["being-in-love","falling-in-love","in-love","love"],"id":208864,"author_id":"Heather+Anastasiu"},{"text":"Don't you understand? I want to spend my life with you. I want you to be there when I go to bed at night and when I wake up in the morning.","author":"Heather Anastasiu","tags":["being-in-love","falling-in-love","in-love","love"],"id":247439,"author_id":"Heather+Anastasiu"},{"text":"Having something to fight for will make us stronger than anything they can throw at us.","author":"Heather Anastasiu","tags":["adrien","inspirational","love","the-rez","ya","zoe"],"id":268818,"author_id":"Heather+Anastasiu"},{"text":"There was something else I couldn't quite define--something that made me uneasy. We were a wrong fit, like unmatching puzzle pieces.","author":"Heather Anastasiu","tags":["wrong","wrongness"],"id":324444,"author_id":"Heather+Anastasiu"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":16,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}