{"author":"Shelly Crane","author_id":"Shelly+Crane","total_quotes":36,"quotes":[{"text":"You know when you’re on a course that you know is the right one. You can’t explain it, you can’t define it, you don’t know how you got there or what all the obstacles will be, you just know the end result will be amazing and it will be worth it. That was the road I was on. Full speed ahead, no blinkers or turn signals, just cruise control.","author":"Shelly Crane","tags":["love","sweet-romance","young-adult"],"id":102,"author_id":"Shelly+Crane"},{"text":"You don't appreciate the things that come easy. The things we fight for are the things we keep with us forever.","author":"Shelly Crane","tags":["true-love","young-adult"],"id":6958,"author_id":"Shelly+Crane"},{"text":"I smiled sadly and whispered, 'I would have taken a bullet for you, too, you know.'I know,' he whispered gruffly and lifted my chin, 'and that pisses me off and turns me on at the same time.","author":"Shelly Crane","tags":["contemporary","romance","ya"],"id":15514,"author_id":"Shelly+Crane"},{"text":"The fact that you can't see how much you're worth makes you worth so much more.' She opened her mouth once, her brow bunched, but nothing came out. She didn't know the words to ask. I continued. 'A diamond doesn't know how much it's worth; it's just beautiful because it exists.","author":"Shelly Crane","tags":["beautiful","diamonds","diamonds-in-the-rough","fantasy","forbidden-love","inspirational","maxton","new-adult-fiction","opposites-attract","romance","science-fiction","science-fiction-young-adult","self-esteem","shelly-crane","sophelia","worthiness","young-adult"],"id":22378,"author_id":"Shelly+Crane"},{"text":"Sometimes I just needed to talk about it, even though it singed like touching the end of a match. I just needed to feel that pain for a moment, to know that it was real. It was my pain. I had earned it by living through it.","author":"Shelly Crane","tags":["apocalyptic","fate","grief","science-fiction-romance","young-adult"],"id":26791,"author_id":"Shelly+Crane"},{"text":"His smile was small and immediate, crooked, like I’d put his whole world off its axis, but he was somehow okay with that.","author":"Shelly Crane","tags":["paranormal-romance","soul-mates","soulmates","young-adult"],"id":38766,"author_id":"Shelly+Crane"},{"text":"I wrapped my arms around his neck and held on as he showed me what love felt like. As he showed me that a kiss could change your entire world.","author":"Shelly Crane","tags":["kissing","soulmates","young-adult"],"id":40227,"author_id":"Shelly+Crane"},{"text":"Every day is its own infinity, every hour, its own eternity, every minute, its own forever.","author":"Shelly Crane","tags":["soulmates","young-adult"],"id":47329,"author_id":"Shelly+Crane"},{"text":"But when she finally did look up, I realized my fatal mistake. That by not leaping for her when she jumped, she thought that I no longer wanted to catch her.","author":"Shelly Crane","tags":["science-fiction","young-adult-romance"],"id":59208,"author_id":"Shelly+Crane"},{"text":"When you will you learn that we all have our place, our parts to play?”I scoffed, wincing as the slices on my back pulled. “When will you learn that it’s up to you if you play those parts or not?","author":"Shelly Crane","tags":["science-fiction","significance","soulmates","young-adult"],"id":110059,"author_id":"Shelly+Crane"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":36,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}