{"author":"Victoria Kahler","author_id":"Victoria+Kahler","total_quotes":19,"quotes":[{"text":"When she awakes, she knows where she is. This place, this ancient place sears one’s soul with recognition. 'Heaven' seems an inadequate word for it, but that is what it is known as.","author":"Victoria Kahler","tags":["afterlife","death","dying","eternity","heaven","soul"],"id":26307,"author_id":"Victoria+Kahler"},{"text":"The air was warm and heavy as sprinkles began to fall from the clouds high above. The Triton glided through the waters and the whoosh of the ship combined with the steady beat of the rain to make a concerto, like a pianist fluttering his fingers on the keys at one end and running his fingers up and down the scales at the other. Expectancy hung in the air as the tune moved to a crescendo.","author":"Victoria Kahler","tags":["cruise","music","rain"],"id":26573,"author_id":"Victoria+Kahler"},{"text":"In her experience, there were only two kinds of guys: the ones into sports and the ones into video gaming. It seemed guys had to be obsessed with something, whether it was watching a game or playing in it or keeping some weird collection related to it.","author":"Victoria Kahler","tags":["boys","gaming","guys","men"],"id":49483,"author_id":"Victoria+Kahler"},{"text":"She felt just like that girl in that book with the letter A on her chest. Only her A signified Alone. She was an outcast, cast out by her own choices, an outsider with a pretty face. Like a rose, she may have been beautiful to look at, but almost everyone only knew the thorny side.","author":"Victoria Kahler","tags":["alone","loneliness","outcast","scarlet-letter"],"id":58627,"author_id":"Victoria+Kahler"},{"text":"He was like her favorite type of candy, she realized, a bit sour at first but all sweetness in the long run. Admittedly . . . That tartness was part of the allure all along.","author":"Victoria Kahler","tags":["candy","guys","men","sour","sweet"],"id":60168,"author_id":"Victoria+Kahler"},{"text":"Teachers knew every one of the students, their secrets, their grades, their home situations. And all the students knew the teachers. It was like teachers were people who finally were the most popular at school.","author":"Victoria Kahler","tags":["popularity","reliving-high-school","students","teachers","teaching"],"id":93926,"author_id":"Victoria+Kahler"},{"text":"The sun was still out, wouldn’t even start to set for an hour, but the early evening still had that “magic hour” feeling. The air was warm and breezy. The houses looked sparkling with windows reflecting the still bright sun.","author":"Victoria Kahler","tags":["dusk","magic","sunset","twilight"],"id":103989,"author_id":"Victoria+Kahler"},{"text":"The summer night was settling upon the neighborhood like a dark lace veil, casting dappled shadows on the roofs and sidewalks and lawns.","author":"Victoria Kahler","tags":["neighborhoods","night","shadows","suburbs","summer","summer-nights"],"id":108074,"author_id":"Victoria+Kahler"},{"text":"The flames of the luau bonfire burned brightly. Sparks flew into the sky and disappeared before they reached the stars above. Near the horizon, the moon was large and round and flawless as porcelain.","author":"Victoria Kahler","tags":["bonfire","fire","luau","moon","stars"],"id":156990,"author_id":"Victoria+Kahler"},{"text":"She is no longer a solitary being. She is a million different parts, each reborn, granted the miracle she prayed for in the months before her death, to be completely healed. Death is the price for rebirth.Death. Who would have thought it would come with such great joy? Yet, after long years battling illness, death is suddenly more than welcome.","author":"Victoria Kahler","tags":["death","healing","illness","rebirth","relief","suffering"],"id":191702,"author_id":"Victoria+Kahler"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":19,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}