{"author":"Karina Halle","author_id":"Karina+Halle","total_quotes":49,"quotes":[{"text":"...Seeing ghosts and demons just lends itself to listening to White Zombie and Slayer and Fantomas on repeat. One Direction and Selena Gomez are for the girls who don’t see dead people every fucking day.","author":"Karina Halle","tags":["music"],"id":435,"author_id":"Karina+Halle"},{"text":"God didn't create monsters. Monsters created themselves.","author":"Karina Halle","tags":["monsters"],"id":3182,"author_id":"Karina+Halle"},{"text":"The saying goes, if you love something, let it go. I always though it was better to just shoot the damn thing so it'd never go anywhere.","author":"Karina Halle","tags":["romance","violence"],"id":8141,"author_id":"Karina+Halle"},{"text":"It doesn’t really matter in the end. Most people I talk to don’t take writing seriously. If I tell them I’m an aspiring author, they get that “yeah right” look on their face, which is usually followed by “good luck with that.","author":"Karina Halle","tags":["truth-of-life"],"id":15116,"author_id":"Karina+Halle"},{"text":"We are forever surrounded by ash. But we are fire. And fire rises.","author":"Karina Halle","tags":["fire"],"id":16044,"author_id":"Karina+Halle"},{"text":"People say things are going to be Hell without even the slightest notion of what Hell is.","author":"Karina Halle","tags":["hell"],"id":41665,"author_id":"Karina+Halle"},{"text":"I have to live with my mistakes, but I don’t have to regret them. I regret my actions but I can’t regret the consequences. We all make our own paths in life. Everyone we meet, everything we do, it changes us. It makes us who we are. And, if we’re lucky, we’re given the chance to make things right again.","author":"Karina Halle","tags":["camden-mcqueen","consequences","life","mistakes","regrets"],"id":45779,"author_id":"Karina+Halle"},{"text":"We learn so that we may succeed, and that goes for anything in life, including the arts. It’s a falsity that the moment we earn money or wish to earn money for our creations that it ceases to become art.","author":"Karina Halle","tags":["art"],"id":50625,"author_id":"Karina+Halle"},{"text":"That’s what all art is for. Your creations can become anything to anyone. I’ve realized there’s nothing wrong with letting people escape for a few hours. Plus you should hear about all the sex lives I’m saving.","author":"Karina Halle","tags":["smut","truth-of-life"],"id":58884,"author_id":"Karina+Halle"},{"text":"I slowly, deliberately began to work the blade into his throat. He squirmed and kicked and fought agains tme, but in his current state, I was stronger. His will to live was pathetic, just like he was. Eventually he stopped kicking. I kept cutting. When I was finally done, I was covered in sweat and only a few drops of blood on my shoes and pants. They'd come out in a good wash.I put his head into the garbage and pulled the bag out, making a knot at the end. I hoped it wouldn't leak through. Then I looked around the office. It was a mess before I came in, piles of paper and empty beer bottles scattered around. The addition of his blood and a headless corpse was barely noticeable.","author":"Karina Halle","tags":["contemporary","romance","violence"],"id":67532,"author_id":"Karina+Halle"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":49,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}