{"author":"Meredith Duran","author_id":"Meredith+Duran","total_quotes":20,"quotes":[{"text":"Alex understood such discipline. He knew the rarity of it, and the cost. And on the rare occasions when he happened to touch her, he did wonder what else she might have been, if she had not been so determined to be typical.","author":"Meredith Duran","tags":["discipline","ordinariness","typical"],"id":827,"author_id":"Meredith+Duran"},{"text":"I've heard that sarcasm is no substitute for cleverness.","author":"Meredith Duran","tags":["cleverness","sarcasm"],"id":56659,"author_id":"Meredith+Duran"},{"text":"I deserve better —such a dangerous, mad thought for a woman to entertain.","author":"Meredith Duran","tags":["feminism","women"],"id":75894,"author_id":"Meredith+Duran"},{"text":"For a woman's words to wound would require a man to listen first!","author":"Meredith Duran","tags":["listening","men","understanding","women","words"],"id":94859,"author_id":"Meredith+Duran"},{"text":"For God's sake, Gwen,' he said gently. 'What matter that I love you. That's not the bit that's always been missing.'Her lips parted. They wished to ask a question she could not bear to bring herself to ask. He was never less than honest. The answer, than, was bound to be wrong.'So she did not ask it as a question. 'You won't leave me,' she said.He drew a long breath. 'There,' he said, quietly, fiercely. 'That is the answer to this riddle. The promises I can make, and the one I can't. Gwen.' His hands closed on her wrists, tightening until she swallowed and found her courage and looked up at him. 'I will never leave you willingly. Life is a risk, and so love is, as well. But I swear to God, you will not regret the gamble.","author":"Meredith Duran","tags":["gamble","leave","leaving","life","love","risk"],"id":107026,"author_id":"Meredith+Duran"},{"text":"And I said, 'That is why you don't climb mountains, Gwen.' But now I wonder. You aren't afraid of heights.'No', she said. 'Not particularly.'Only missteps.'She paused midstroke. Did he mean to imply this had been a misstep? 'I was afraid,' she said carefully. 'For a very long time. But no longer.' 'So was I,' he said, and lifted her chin and kissed her.","author":"Meredith Duran","tags":["love","mountains","risk","taking-a-chance"],"id":112569,"author_id":"Meredith+Duran"},{"text":"Miss Masters was not content with threatening to hire away his staff, oh no. First, she had to perfume it.","author":"Meredith Duran","tags":["humor","meredith-duran","romance"],"id":114675,"author_id":"Meredith+Duran"},{"text":"He knew himself well enough to know his own faults. Impatient and judgmental and stubborn and often too quick to act: he would try never to crush her, never to overwhelm her or bend her to his will, but if she did not demand only the best from him, it would happen. It might happen. Possibly.","author":"Meredith Duran","tags":["marriage","partnership"],"id":119652,"author_id":"Meredith+Duran"},{"text":"What modern art required was an imagination drawn to possibilities, rather than braced by smug presumptions.","author":"Meredith Duran","tags":["art"],"id":169277,"author_id":"Meredith+Duran"},{"text":"Surely this is what death would be like: nothingness, oblivion, as the world continued to turn, heedless of her absence.","author":"Meredith Duran","tags":["death","philosphical","truth","wise"],"id":220283,"author_id":"Meredith+Duran"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":20,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}