{"quotes":[{"text":"Because if I let myself feel the pain and the anger, I think it might kill me. Or I might kill someone else. I know it's wrong to feel that way about God and I know its's wrong to not feel anything. I hate it. I don't hate God. I hate not loving Him.","author":"Susan Beth Pfeffer","tags":["adult-fiction","fantasy","god","hate","love"],"id":10505,"author_id":"Susan+Beth+Pfeffer"},{"text":"People who make snide comments to authors like 'anyone can write a book' or 'well, you did it, so obviously I can/it can't be that hard' or poke at a book because it's 'romance' or 'genre fiction' and act like that somehow makes it substandard because they don't read it... Well, ok, go ahead. Write a bestseller. Don't forget to go through the correct edit process. We'll wait.","author":"Michelle M. Pillow","tags":["adult-fiction","book","book-writing","edit","genre-fiction","haters","writing","writing-life"],"id":29392,"author_id":"Michelle+M.+Pillow"},{"text":"Life is a lie. We should fear it more than death. We live fearful of dying, terrified of the unknown … when, really, every truth is in our last breath.","author":"Piper Payne","tags":["adult-contemporary","adult-fiction","death","depression","dying","funeral","heaven","hell","humanity","hurt","life","living","pain","sad","sadness","suffering"],"id":91369,"author_id":"Piper+Payne"},{"text":"The tide, you see, is a fickle thing: stealing in, sliding away, always, always turning. She comes when you're not looking, a silent, liquid thief, only to rush away again, retreating from the shore like a coward. She gives sometimes too, though in fleeting, unexpected moments, yielding up her treasures and her dead--but never, ever her secrets.","author":"Barbara Davis","tags":["adult-fiction","barbara-davis","mystery","north-carolina","romance","secrets","starry-point","suspense-outer-banks","the-wishing-tide"],"id":113880,"author_id":"Barbara+Davis"},{"text":"Secrets are dangerous.” Gottfried Baumauer.","author":"Carla H. Krueger","tags":["adult-fiction","anti-utopia","bad-manager","carla-krueger","comedy","contemporary","dark","humor","humour","office-politics","office-worker","orwell","poison","psychological","quick-read","short-book","short-story","subversive","twisted"],"id":114365,"author_id":"Carla+H.+Krueger"},{"text":"She was prepared for him to shut her down, when Behr shrugged a shoulder and said, “Yeah, sounds good. I think it’s a good idea for you to get out of the house. But,” he said, stepping back into the kitchen and leveling her with a hard look, “only if I tag along.” “What? Why?” Cheyenne questioned, not understanding the need for chaperones. “Because it’s safer that way,” he reasoned. “I have a couple things to take care of first, so it will probably be a day or two. I expect you to wait for me, though, Cheyenne,” he said, his brilliant blue eyes holding her in place. “It’s safer that way.”She was preparing to argue when she realized that she wasn’t altogether sure she wanted to venture out on her own yet anyway. It might be a shock to her system after locking herself away for so long. For laughs, she decided to give him a hard time anyway. “But…” she started. He cut her off with an upraised hand. “No buts,” he said sternly. “It’s not safe and you know it, and besides, that’s what you have two strapping young men like us for.” He clapped a grinning Dehstroy on the back. Cheyenne threw her head back and laughed. “You, young? Ha!”“What?” Behr said, acting offended. “I’m young.”“Prove it,” Cheyenne challenged. “Show me your birth certificate.” When he pursed his lips, she laughed some more. “What’s wrong? Didn’t they make birth certificates yet when you were born? No?” She looked between the men, taking in their sheepish expressions. “Well, then. I’ll leave you two to work on clearing that schedule.” Waving, Cheyenne left the kitchen and headed upstairs to her room to lie down.","author":"Brandi Salazar","tags":["adult-fiction","mythology","paranormal-series","romance"],"id":118118,"author_id":"Brandi+Salazar"},{"text":"Every time I so much as blink you get an erection.","author":"Carla H. Krueger","tags":["adult-fiction","anti-utopia","bad-manager","carla-krueger","comedy","contemporary","dark","humor","humour","office-politics","office-worker","orwell","poison","psychological","quick-read","short-book","short-story","subversive","twisted"],"id":126366,"author_id":"Carla+H.+Krueger"},{"text":"Without pride, man becomes a parasite – and there are already too many parasites.","author":"Carla H. Krueger","tags":["adult-fiction","anti-utopia","bad-manager","carla-krueger","comedy","contemporary","dark","humor","humour","office-politics","office-worker","orwell","poison","psychological","quick-read","short-book","short-story","subversive","twisted"],"id":142596,"author_id":"Carla+H.+Krueger"},{"text":"Were the stars against him? A woman's fingers are quicker in the sky and shine more brightly.","author":"Graham Spaid","tags":["adult-fiction","humor","literary-fiction","satire"],"id":143010,"author_id":"Graham+Spaid"},{"text":"Maxwell D. Kalist is a receiving teller at a city bank, Orwell and Finch, where he runs an efficient department of twenty two clerks and twelve junior clerks. He carries a leather-bound vade mecum everywhere with him – a handbook of the most widely contravened banking rules. He works humourlessly (on the surface of it) in a private, perfectly square office on the third floor of a restored grain exchange midway along the Eastern flank of Květniv’s busy, modern central plaza. Behind his oblong slate desk and black leather swivel chair is an intimidating, three-storey wall made almost entirely of bevelled, glare-reducing grey glass in art-deco style; one hundred and thirty six rectangles of gleam stacked together in a dangerously heavy collage.","author":"Carla H. Krueger","tags":["adult-fiction","anti-utopia","bad-manager","carla-krueger","comedy","contemporary","dark","humor","humour","office-politics","office-worker","orwell","poison","psychological","quick-read","short-book","short-story","subversive","twisted"],"id":146158,"author_id":"Carla+H.+Krueger"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":32,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}