{"author":"Heather Demetrios","author_id":"Heather+Demetrios","total_quotes":23,"quotes":[{"text":"A little bit closer to the stars, anything seemed possible.","author":"Heather Demetrios","tags":["happiness","inspirational","life","love-romance","philosophy","stars"],"id":16538,"author_id":"Heather+Demetrios"},{"text":"This, I think, is a little glimpse of what life could be like without my family. Home could be a place of laughter and love, a refuge. I'm filled with a terrifying weightlessness, like I've jumped off a cliff, but I know that if I don't look down, I'll be just fine.","author":"Heather Demetrios","tags":["debut-","debut-novel","ya"],"id":62188,"author_id":"Heather+Demetrios"},{"text":"I thought of all the summer evenings I'd spent sitting in the chairs under the trees beside the trailer, reading books that helped me escape Creek View, at least for a little while. Magical kingdoms, Russian love triangles, and the March sisters couldn't have been further away from the trailer park.","author":"Heather Demetrios","tags":["book","books","books-reading","escape","escape-from-reality","little-women","louisa-may-alcott","love-of-books","love-of-reading","read","reading","reading","trailer","trailer-park"],"id":71115,"author_id":"Heather+Demetrios"},{"text":"She is a slave, with no way home.","author":"Heather Demetrios","tags":["powerlessness","slavery"],"id":102015,"author_id":"Heather+Demetrios"},{"text":"You can't screw up your own suicide and then expect the universe to give you presents wrapped in the skin of a wonderful boy. That's just not the way it works.","author":"Heather Demetrios","tags":["debut-","debut-novel","ya"],"id":102290,"author_id":"Heather+Demetrios"},{"text":"My life was being planned in sentences that started with 'We' instead of 'I', yet it felt like the most natural transition in the world.","author":"Heather Demetrios","tags":["always","breakups","forever","insperational","life","love","relationships","sad"],"id":127580,"author_id":"Heather+Demetrios"},{"text":"If my sister were a character in a Victorian drama, she would be the snobbish rich girl with a penchant for talking shit about everyone behind their fan.","author":"Heather Demetrios","tags":["debut-","debut-novel","ya"],"id":175533,"author_id":"Heather+Demetrios"},{"text":"I'm the girl who's desperate to get out of her small town because if she doesn't she knows she'll die. She knows her soul will start to rot, like fruit gone bad.","author":"Heather Demetrios","tags":["cities","city","desperate","dream","dreamer","escape","girl","small-town"],"id":222093,"author_id":"Heather+Demetrios"},{"text":"I've never been somewhere I belonged, but there are places where I think I could be happy. Like San Francisco. Well, do art museums count? Because I feel like I belong in them.","author":"Heather Demetrios","tags":["art","art-museum","art-museums","artist","artists","belong","belonging","california","dream","dreamer","escape","museum","museums","san-francisco","somewhere","somewhere-else"],"id":226592,"author_id":"Heather+Demetrios"},{"text":"You know those primitive tribal people who believed a camera could steal your soul? Turns out they were right.","author":"Heather Demetrios","tags":["debut-","ya"],"id":228915,"author_id":"Heather+Demetrios"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":23,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}