{"author":"Lauren Hammond","author_id":"Lauren+Hammond","total_quotes":15,"quotes":[{"text":"Restrictions and writing shouldn't mix. Let your mind be open. Let it be a creative canvas.","author":"Lauren Hammond","tags":["craft","positivity","writing"],"id":5042,"author_id":"Lauren+Hammond"},{"text":"It had been along time since I breached the surface of the world above. My parents wouldn’t allow it. So as far as I knew, the survivors that remained were savages. I’d seen a few things before our colony was built and most of the inhabitants left ran wildly through the bare, desert terrain, filth covering them from head to toe, bones protruding their leathery skin, and foam dripping from their mouths in search of one thing…Nourishment.","author":"Lauren Hammond","tags":["dystopian-fiction","famished","ya"],"id":52021,"author_id":"Lauren+Hammond"},{"text":"Hello, dinner. It’s me, I’m starving. And I know where you live.","author":"Lauren Hammond","tags":["dystopian","romance","ya"],"id":68947,"author_id":"Lauren+Hammond"},{"text":"My hands are in his hair and his arms wrap around my waist tighter. I know what Henry does to me. I’m space bound. A rocket about to blast off. And I want Henry to send me to the moon.","author":"Lauren Hammond","tags":["lovers","young-adult-novels","young-love"],"id":144676,"author_id":"Lauren+Hammond"},{"text":"The voice blurs and fades, like a faint cry riding on the tails of the wind. I yawn and stretch, rolling over. I fold my pillow under my head and wait for the voice to return. When I hear nothing but the sound of my own breathing I allow myself to drift back into a dreamless slumber.","author":"Lauren Hammond","tags":["mythology","romance","young-adult-fiction","young-adult-series"],"id":173744,"author_id":"Lauren+Hammond"},{"text":"Addy, living one day without you would never be for the best. I want you every minute of every day. Forever. I love you.","author":"Lauren Hammond","tags":["asylum","damien","insanity","lauren-hammond","love"],"id":254052,"author_id":"Lauren+Hammond"},{"text":"Maybe I’m stupid. Maybe I’m just as evil as he is by keeping my mouth shut. But he told me once that I was different. And I can’t help but hope that me being different is the one thing in this world that can save him from what he fears the most…Himself.","author":"Lauren Hammond","tags":["horror-romance","teenage-love","young-adult-fiction","young-adult-series"],"id":304070,"author_id":"Lauren+Hammond"},{"text":"A good book will pull you in from the beginning and take you on a journey you'll never forget.","author":"Lauren Hammond","tags":["books","reading","writing"],"id":337450,"author_id":"Lauren+Hammond"},{"text":"As our kissing progresses, I don’t care that our tryst seems raunchy and wrong. I don’t care that I’m at school, in the boy’s bathroom. I don’t care that to most people this would seem cheap, dirty, and despicable. The only thing I can think about while he kisses me deeper, harder, faster, is that Henry Garner is the plague and the only thing I want him to do is infect me.","author":"Lauren Hammond","tags":["love-story","lovers","romance-novels","young-adult","young-adult-novels","young-love"],"id":338292,"author_id":"Lauren+Hammond"},{"text":"I would change the way humans interpreted the word vampire, forever.","author":"Lauren Hammond","tags":["paranormal-romance","vampires"],"id":378813,"author_id":"Lauren+Hammond"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":15,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}