{"author":"Jessica Khoury","author_id":"Jessica+Khoury","total_quotes":64,"quotes":[{"text":"A kind of childlike purity to her repose that made the thought of kissing her seem vile.","author":"Jessica Khoury","tags":["kissing","love","scifi","vitro"],"id":13703,"author_id":"Jessica+Khoury"},{"text":"Your father is waiting, so fly up that mountain and through the alomb. Find Nardukha and tell him I have upheld my end of the bargain. Now it is his turn.”He stares at me, a dangerous light in his eye, and then his gaze travels beyond me, in the direction of the funeral. My hand moves to his muscled forearm, and I squeeze it.","author":"Jessica Khoury","tags":["bride","care","humans","jinn-prince","jinni","no","proposal","return","zahra","zhain"],"id":16964,"author_id":"Jessica+Khoury"},{"text":"For a moment we are weightless, eyes open and locked underwater, flowers drawn down with us, swirling around us in a current of white bubbles. My hair floats around us both like black silk. His hands are still around my waist, mine pressed against his bare chest. My lamp drifts between us.Aladdin plants his feet against the bottom of the pool and kicks off, pushing us upward to burst through the surface. He gasps in air and shakes the wet hair from his eyes. Without pulling away, we float in silence, and I cannot take my gaze from him. Water runs down his cheeks and lips, dripping from his jaw. A lock of his hair is stuck to his forehead, and I gently lift it away, curling it around my finger before letting it go.“What are we doing?” he whispers, pulling me closer.I cannot reply. I don’t trust my own voice. He brings his forehead down to rest against mine, and everything outside this pool and this moment ceases to exist. All that matters is the gentle sound of our breathing, our reflections on the water, the feel of his hands around me.","author":"Jessica Khoury","tags":["aladdin","intimate","touch","water","zahra"],"id":17261,"author_id":"Jessica+Khoury"},{"text":"Well, that's the thing, isn't it? Everyone always blames the monster--but no one ever blames the one who created it. Isn't that right?' He sneered at Moira's limp form. 'Tell me, who is the monster? The creation or the creator? It has to start somewhere.","author":"Jessica Khoury","tags":["blame","creation","creator","monster"],"id":18892,"author_id":"Jessica+Khoury"},{"text":"It's time for both of us to be free.","author":"Jessica Khoury","tags":["freedom","goodbye"],"id":32271,"author_id":"Jessica+Khoury"},{"text":"Remember, Pia,' he whispers. 'Perfect is as perfect does.","author":"Jessica Khoury","tags":["death","immortality","life","perfect","sad","truth","uncle"],"id":32747,"author_id":"Jessica+Khoury"},{"text":"To have thought that, with the right tests and the right lectures, I could be made into a cold-blooded, heartless killer. To have thought that I could ignore the beating of my own heart long enough to stop the beating of another's.","author":"Jessica Khoury","tags":["conscience","death","evil-science","human-nature","humanity","humans","killing","love","morality"],"id":49561,"author_id":"Jessica+Khoury"},{"text":"I can't let the killing go on. No more death, not because of me. This is the only way. You and I both know it. Eio.","author":"Jessica Khoury","tags":["death","killing","love","sacrifice"],"id":54619,"author_id":"Jessica+Khoury"},{"text":"Love.Such a sweet, simple word. A word I've been searching for my entire life - but especially since I met Eio - and I never knew it. Until ow. When I hear it on his lips, I know as I can never know anything else - no numbers, no formulas, no scientific names - I know it's true. A piece slides into place in my heart, filling a hole I never knew existed.","author":"Jessica Khoury","tags":["empty-space","feeling-whole","love","science","young-love"],"id":61424,"author_id":"Jessica+Khoury"},{"text":"As the poets say, stories are truth told through lies.","author":"Jessica Khoury","tags":["lies","stories","truth"],"id":64670,"author_id":"Jessica+Khoury"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":64,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}