{"author":"Kiersten White","author_id":"Kiersten+White","total_quotes":102,"quotes":[{"text":"Did you do this?”“There are other ways to beat someone than with fists.” Radu poked her in the side with a finger.She surprised him by laughing. He stood up straighter, a proud grin at having surprised and delighted Lada bursting across his face. She never laughed unless she was laughing at him. He had done something right!Then the lashings began.Radu’s smile wilted and died. He looked away. He was safe now. And Lada was proud of him, which had never happened before. He focused on that to ignore the sick feelings twisting his stomach as Aron and Andrei cried out in pain. He wanted his nurse—wanted her to hold and comfort him—and this, too, made him feel ashamed.Lada watched the whip with a calculating look. “Still,” she said. “Fists are faster.","author":"Kiersten White","tags":["beat","fists","lada-dragwlya","laugh","proud","punish","radu"],"id":13699,"author_id":"Kiersten+White"},{"text":"What do you think? Does this face make me look fat?","author":"Kiersten White","tags":["funny"],"id":18327,"author_id":"Kiersten+White"},{"text":"Clinical, brilliantly medical-minded Adam believes in fate. A fate with Fia.","author":"Kiersten White","tags":["adam","annie","fate","fia","love"],"id":18869,"author_id":"Kiersten+White"},{"text":"The door opens with a rusted jingle, and an animatronic Santa insults my moral virtue three times. Ho, ho, ho.","author":"Kiersten White","tags":["christmas","funny","santa"],"id":19691,"author_id":"Kiersten+White"},{"text":"But there are many ways to be powerful. There is power in stillness. There is power in watching, waiting, saying the right thing at the right time to the right person. There is power in being a woman---oh yes, power in these bodies you gaze upon with derision.","author":"Kiersten White","tags":["power"],"id":24615,"author_id":"Kiersten+White"},{"text":"Pretending is another way of lying, and I am so good at both.","author":"Kiersten White","tags":["fia","lying"],"id":32955,"author_id":"Kiersten+White"},{"text":"Crazy must run in your family,” he says.“You do know Fia!” I blurt, then bite my lip.","author":"Kiersten White","tags":["annie","crazy","fia"],"id":40725,"author_id":"Kiersten+White"},{"text":"We change the future with every choice we make,.","author":"Kiersten White","tags":["annie-future","choices"],"id":42926,"author_id":"Kiersten+White"},{"text":"I closed my eyes. I used to think I was protecting the world, too. But it wasn't that simple. Nothing was. Who were we to decide that anyone or anything didn't deserve the spark of life they had been given?","author":"Kiersten White","tags":["life","life-and-death"],"id":56165,"author_id":"Kiersten+White"},{"text":"Yo soy carne muerta. Translation: I am dead meat.","author":"Kiersten White","tags":["books","evie","humor"],"id":61627,"author_id":"Kiersten+White"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":102,"pages":11,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}