{"author":"Victoria Schwab","author_id":"Victoria+Schwab","total_quotes":52,"quotes":[{"text":"He wondered about himself (whether he was broken, or special, or better, or worse) and about other people (whether they were really all as stupid as they seemed).","author":"Victoria Schwab","tags":["ask","better","broken","discover","himself","other","people","ponder","question","special","stupid","truth","wonder","worse","you","yourself"],"id":10468,"author_id":"Victoria+Schwab"},{"text":"Sing you a song and steal your soul.","author":"Victoria Schwab","tags":["music","soul"],"id":12181,"author_id":"Victoria+Schwab"},{"text":"There are no monsters in the dark.","author":"Victoria Schwab","tags":["dark","magic","monsters"],"id":18358,"author_id":"Victoria+Schwab"},{"text":"We do it, Jackson, because compassion must be louder than pride.","author":"Victoria Schwab","tags":["compassion","henry-flynn"],"id":21634,"author_id":"Victoria+Schwab"},{"text":"Everything hurts. I don't know how to make it stop. It hurts when I breathe. It hurts when I think. I feel like I'm drowning, and it's my fault, and I don't know how to be okay. I don't know if I CAN be okay. I don't know if I should be allowed to be okay.","author":"Victoria Schwab","tags":["grief"],"id":21782,"author_id":"Victoria+Schwab"},{"text":"Everything that rises will fall. Empires, societies, governments. None of them lasts forever. Why? Because even though they are the products of change, they become resistant to change. The longer a society survives, the more it clings to its power, and the more it resists progress. The more it resists progress- resists change- the more its ciizens demand it. In response, the society tighten its grip, desperate to maintain control. It's afraid of losing its hold.","author":"Victoria Schwab","tags":["governmentent","progress","society"],"id":31215,"author_id":"Victoria+Schwab"},{"text":"A person chose their path. Or they made a new one.","author":"Victoria Schwab","tags":["path","unkown"],"id":33332,"author_id":"Victoria+Schwab"},{"text":"Cole steps forward, his fingers reaching around my shoulders, and kisses me. It is sudden and smooth and soft as air against my lips. The wind whips around us, tugging at the fabric of our clothes, but not pulling us apart. And then it's gone, the cool pressure against my lips, and my eyes are open and looking into two gray eyes like river rocks.'/That's/ what you wanted to show me?'No,' he says, his fingers slipping down my arms as he leads me off the path and out, away from Near. 'That was just in case.","author":"Victoria Schwab","tags":["cole","cute","funny","kiss","lexi"],"id":43624,"author_id":"Victoria+Schwab"},{"text":"Wesley's touch lingers on my skin. His music echoes through my head. I remind myself as I scrub my skin that we are both liars and con artists. That we will always have secrets, some that bind us and some that cut between us, slicing us into pieces.","author":"Victoria Schwab","tags":["con-artists","friendship","liars","love","people","relationships","secrets","the-unbound","trust"],"id":53952,"author_id":"Victoria+Schwab"},{"text":"Well,' I ask, leaning over him, 'do you wish to stay?'I do.'And why is that, Cole?' I say, tipping toward him so that our noses nearly brush.'Well,' he says with a smile, 'the weather's quite nice.","author":"Victoria Schwab","tags":["cole","cute","funny","lexi","near","witch"],"id":73554,"author_id":"Victoria+Schwab"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":52,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}