{"author":"Leslea Tash","author_id":"Leslea+Tash","total_quotes":12,"quotes":[{"text":"What better time to be kind to a beautiful stranger than when she’s weak, and rocking a schnoz like the Godfather?","author":"Leslea Tash","tags":["contemporary-romance","humorous","new-adult"],"id":30803,"author_id":"Leslea+Tash"},{"text":"You're too young to be so old.","author":"Leslea Tash","tags":["contemporary-romance","new-adult","romance"],"id":116120,"author_id":"Leslea+Tash"},{"text":"Never heard you talk about a man this way. Usually you rattle off their attributes like you're fixing to fricassee the poor sons of bitches. God help the poor bastard you ever fall in love with.","author":"Leslea Tash","tags":["contemporary-romance","love","new-adult"],"id":217986,"author_id":"Leslea+Tash"},{"text":"Happier than a bird with a french fry.","author":"Leslea Tash","tags":["birds","contemporary-romance","happiness","new-adult"],"id":221074,"author_id":"Leslea+Tash"},{"text":"Oh, Troy? He’s no one. He wanted something more from me than I could give.”“Friends with benefits?” Laurie asked, blushing as he said it.“More like frenemies with benefits.","author":"Leslea Tash","tags":["contemporary-romance","frenemies","friends-with-benefits","new-adult"],"id":238416,"author_id":"Leslea+Tash"},{"text":"For a moment, I felt like myself again. Not the new me, not the old me, just the real me.","author":"Leslea Tash","tags":["authenticity","realness","romance","the-real-me"],"id":245291,"author_id":"Leslea+Tash"},{"text":"If he would see me again, I would die happy. In the meantime, I was merely dying.","author":"Leslea Tash","tags":["angst","contemporary","dying-inside","longing","new-adult","romance"],"id":252057,"author_id":"Leslea+Tash"},{"text":"For the first time in ages I felt a tiny pinprick in my heart--not like it was breaking, but like something small and unseen had begun sewing it closed again.","author":"Leslea Tash","tags":["contemporary-romance","healing","heartbreak","new-adult","romance"],"id":265621,"author_id":"Leslea+Tash"},{"text":"I want you to say it, so I know you'll never forget. I want to hear you say my name.","author":"Leslea Tash","tags":["contemporary-romance","new-adult","romance","say-my-name"],"id":325653,"author_id":"Leslea+Tash"},{"text":"It felt terrific. It felt deeper and richer than laughter. It felt like opening a door and tumbling headfirst into a pile of feathers.","author":"Leslea Tash","tags":["contemporary-romance","laughter","new-adult","romance"],"id":419962,"author_id":"Leslea+Tash"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":12,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}