{"author":"Kelly Creagh","author_id":"Kelly+Creagh","total_quotes":27,"quotes":[{"text":"Demons... They don't just waltz into your life and take over for no reason,' she said, her voice going soft again. 'They might knock on the door, but ultimately, you have to be the one to invite them in.","author":"Kelly Creagh","tags":["demons","ghosts","teen-fiction"],"id":3985,"author_id":"Kelly+Creagh"},{"text":"Just because I wear black and keep a private journal, that doesn't mean I'm going to blow up the school. Or terrorize mindless cheerleaders, for that matter.","author":"Kelly Creagh","tags":["emo","terrorism"],"id":25817,"author_id":"Kelly+Creagh"},{"text":"Death always wins.","author":"Kelly Creagh","tags":["death"],"id":57345,"author_id":"Kelly+Creagh"},{"text":"Lady Ligeia,' he began again, 'is a woman in the literature who returns from the dead, taking over another woman's body to be with her true love.'Oh, yes. Lovely' Isobel blanched. 'I guess the other chick didn't mind at all?","author":"Kelly Creagh","tags":["beyond-the-grave","death","edgar-allan-poe","lady-ligeia","ligeia","love","nevermore","poe","true-love"],"id":75364,"author_id":"Kelly+Creagh"},{"text":"It is naught but pain and regret when we think of the things and people we will never have, the opportunities we may never get. But to pine for those we have had and loved and once held but will never clasp again, it is torture of an unbearable degree. It is the worst pain possible. Enough to drive you away from yourself...","author":"Kelly Creagh","tags":["isobel-lanley","love","pain","reynolds"],"id":79075,"author_id":"Kelly+Creagh"},{"text":"You yourself could be nothing more than a shadow, someone else’s dream who is, themselves, someone else’s.","author":"Kelly Creagh","tags":["dream","kelly-creagh","nevermore"],"id":92723,"author_id":"Kelly+Creagh"},{"text":"Painted faces laughed. It was like a mad carnival where everyone was oblivious, lost in the bliss of chaos, a throng unaware of a bomb planted beneath thefloorboards.","author":"Kelly Creagh","tags":["bomb","carnival","chaos","kelly-creagh","nevermore"],"id":93342,"author_id":"Kelly+Creagh"},{"text":"As though sensing her heightening alarm, Pinfeathers halted his advance.'I can’t help it that I’m susceptible to you,' he whispered. 'You know that. It’s just that you’re so...Unreal...And so I have to touch you. If only to be certain that I’m not the one who’s dreaming. You see, I hear that sort of thing is going around.","author":"Kelly Creagh","tags":["dream","isobel","pinfeathers","reality"],"id":97783,"author_id":"Kelly+Creagh"},{"text":"Isobel had entrusted the note to Gwen just before Baltimore. And the small scrap of paper still remained her only tangible evidence that Varen had loved her.Expect...He didn't anymore.","author":"Kelly Creagh","tags":["kelly-creagh","loss","lost-love","love","nevermore","note","oblivion"],"id":106122,"author_id":"Kelly+Creagh"},{"text":"You loved her,' Isobel.","author":"Kelly Creagh","tags":["death","kelly-creagh","loss","loss-of-love","love","nevermore","oblivion"],"id":109065,"author_id":"Kelly+Creagh"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":27,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}