{"author":"Penelope Douglas","author_id":"Penelope+Douglas","total_quotes":30,"quotes":[{"text":"It's odd to see how no one is really human to us until we talk to them and realize there's barley any separation between who we are and who they are.","author":"Penelope Douglas","tags":["inspirational","life","living"],"id":9185,"author_id":"Penelope+Douglas"},{"text":"But that was two years ago. She wasn’t sexy to me anymore. Now she was lethal.","author":"Penelope Douglas","tags":["amazing-book","beautiful-writing","inspirational"],"id":15408,"author_id":"Penelope+Douglas"},{"text":"I can’t change the past, Tate. I wish I could, because I’d go back and relive every day that I existed without you, and I’d make sure that you smiled.” My eyes burned with regret, and I saw the pools in her beautiful blues, too. “Every minute of my future belongs to you.","author":"Penelope Douglas","tags":["jared","penelope","romantic","tate","until-you"],"id":15768,"author_id":"Penelope+Douglas"},{"text":"I'm going to hell. I'm pretty sure she'd going to drag me there herself.","author":"Penelope Douglas","tags":["love","misha","misha-and-ryen","na","new-adult","new-adult-contemporary-romance","new-adult-romance","penelope-douglas","punk","punk-57","romance","ryen","ryen-and-misha"],"id":25744,"author_id":"Penelope+Douglas"},{"text":"Experience is the best teacher.","author":"Penelope Douglas","tags":["best","book","books","bullies","bully","douglas","experience","penelope","penelope-douglas","teacher"],"id":30117,"author_id":"Penelope+Douglas"},{"text":"Sometimes I wore smiles but didn’t feel them. Sometimes I felt them and didn’t wear them. I didn’t want her to know how much I craved this. I bit my bottom lip.","author":"Penelope Douglas","tags":["amazing-book","beautiful-writing","inspirational"],"id":82621,"author_id":"Penelope+Douglas"},{"text":"You have to have something to love. Something to fight for to make living a goal instead of a job.","author":"Penelope Douglas","tags":["inspiring","life","love"],"id":93462,"author_id":"Penelope+Douglas"},{"text":"Misha, my best friend who got me into bed and fucked me with a lie.","author":"Penelope Douglas","tags":["love","misha","misha-and-ryen","na","new-adult","new-adult-contemporary-romance","new-adult-romance","penelope-douglas","punk","punk-57","romance","ryen","ryen-and-misha"],"id":98443,"author_id":"Penelope+Douglas"},{"text":"She can be a nightmare, but this still feels better than any dream.","author":"Penelope Douglas","tags":["love","misha","misha-and-ryen","na","new-adult","new-adult-contemporary-romance","new-adult-romance","penelope-douglas","punk","punk-57","romance","ryen","ryen-and-misha"],"id":129474,"author_id":"Penelope+Douglas"},{"text":"I’ve wanted everything in my life to change for so long, and when it’s finally about to, my urge to escape slows down. I think that’s why people stay unhappy for so long, you know? Miserable or not, it’s easier to stick with what’s familiar. Do you notice that, too? How all of us just want to get through life as quickly and as easily as possible? And even though we know that without risk there’s no reward, we’re still so scared to chance it?","author":"Penelope Douglas","tags":["letters","new-adult","romance"],"id":139141,"author_id":"Penelope+Douglas"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":30,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}