{"author":"V.S. Carnes","author_id":"V.S.+Carnes","total_quotes":62,"quotes":[{"text":"Southern gentleman,” he said aside to him in Arabic. “Do you wish for me to continue this for you?”Caine’s temper shifted to a low simmer in his chest. “Your way takes too long.”“Ma’aleyk, and your way hurts my ears,” he argued.","author":"V.S. Carnes","tags":["friendship","love","romance"],"id":1748,"author_id":"V.S.+Carnes"},{"text":"Are you in the habit of taking tea with anyone who approaches you in a foreign port?” He went on and snorted carelessly. “No wonder you were abducted so easily.","author":"V.S. Carnes","tags":["abduction","history"],"id":8676,"author_id":"V.S.+Carnes"},{"text":"And what was to become of what he had taken from her? He had dashed her heart to the ground and danced on it with combat boots. Did he sit in that seditious palace day after day and not even bother to scrape it off of his soles with a passing thought of her?","author":"V.S. Carnes","tags":["betrayal","love"],"id":19666,"author_id":"V.S.+Carnes"},{"text":"I know I am flaky, I accept that—and I know, as well, that I can mangle the good king’s English like no one else in my or the next ten governesses’ acquaintances, but that will not prevent me from speaking! I may not be as wise as you in the ways of the world, I may not have wounds that run as deeply or scars to wear upon my chest like medals of valor, but at least I don’t retreat and hide the moment a soul comes within reach of my fingers!","author":"V.S. Carnes","tags":["bitterness","fear","love","romance"],"id":20138,"author_id":"V.S.+Carnes"},{"text":"Caine usually woke from the recurring dream mid-air, having yet to be dashed upon the rocks, whimpering and panting like a child crying for his mother. Now he lifted his eyes to a dark, empty room in Jizan and the unusual, lingering scent of roses, and wept in his hands for his Father.","author":"V.S. Carnes","tags":["christian","romance"],"id":22502,"author_id":"V.S.+Carnes"},{"text":"She thought she loved him. She was crazy.","author":"V.S. Carnes","tags":["crazy","love"],"id":41112,"author_id":"V.S.+Carnes"},{"text":"Better this way, what remained of his battered sensibilities told him. He was no good for her, anyway. She didn’t understand him. She didn’t understand that he was cursed. And, selfish as he was, he’d rather she hate him than he hate himself any more than he was already going to. Any more than he already did.","author":"V.S. Carnes","tags":["heartache","heartbreak","love","romance"],"id":62398,"author_id":"V.S.+Carnes"},{"text":"They were literally inches from being buried alive in this place, millions of miles from home or any sort of civilization, where they would never be found or mourned... And Caine continued to smile.Sweet heavens, he was completely out of his mind!","author":"V.S. Carnes","tags":["christian","romance"],"id":68882,"author_id":"V.S.+Carnes"},{"text":"Looking back at him was a man who was battered and broken.And alive, for the first time in his life.","author":"V.S. Carnes","tags":["christian","romance"],"id":72944,"author_id":"V.S.+Carnes"},{"text":"What she knew was sand and wind and innumerable stars. The rumble in a camel’s throat as it swayed over shifting dunes, its trappings jingling in time with its steps beneath her. She knew the sting of thirst and the taste of dried fruit, the glare of sun and the frigid, bone-numbing cold of the air when the sun gave her throne over to the moon. She knew that, to survive, one must often revise one’s caliber, and one must completely depend upon Jesus Christ.","author":"V.S. Carnes","tags":["christian","courage","historical"],"id":73188,"author_id":"V.S.+Carnes"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":62,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}