{"quotes":[{"text":"Man I’m hot,” I exclaimed, fanning myself. The combination of climbing out of the cave and the sun meant that I was perspiring like crazy. “Why thank you,” retorted Blaine, smirking. “I’m pleased that my presence causes that kind of reaction.","author":"Adele Rose","tags":["alex","blaine","books","funny","hotness","humour","reading","young-adult-fantasy","young-adult-series"],"id":2045,"author_id":"Adele+Rose"},{"text":"Well why don't you lean over this counter a little more and give me your best kiss, and then I'll tell you if I want you to take me out to dinner.","author":"Zack Love","tags":["alex","humor","new-york-city","short-story","suspense","true-love","zack-love"],"id":2910,"author_id":"Zack+Love"},{"text":"Dispensing with the frivolity, he kissed her meaningfully. When at last he pulled away, her troubled expression alarmed him. 'What?'Be careful, Hammond.'No one will know I was here.'She shook her head. 'Not that.'Then what?'You may have to put me on trial for my life. Please be careful that you don't make me fall in love with you first.","author":"Sandra Brown","tags":["alex","hammond","love","love","quote","sandra-brown","the-alibi","trial"],"id":2976,"author_id":"Sandra+Brown"},{"text":"I breathed in the memory of his lips, the softness of them, and how they felt tracing across my skin, leaving ripples of goosebumps in their wake.","author":"Sarah Alderson","tags":["alex","kissing","lila","memory"],"id":3491,"author_id":"Sarah+Alderson"},{"text":"With every step, I cursed the person who had ever invented the saying: “Speak of the devil”. Clearly, they had no sympathy for me!","author":"Adele Rose","tags":["alex","devil","fantasy-series","humour","idioms","young-adult-fiction"],"id":8853,"author_id":"Adele+Rose"},{"text":"I was just thinking that it would be nice if, for once in a while, life made things easier,” I told him, feeling annoyed. “Why does life have to throw impossible tasks at us all the time for crying out loud?” At hearing my debate, Luna huffed.“Because life’s a bitch,” she growled under her breath, sulking. “That’s why.","author":"Adele Rose","tags":["alex","books","fantasy-series","fantasy-young-adult","funny","humour","life-philosophy","life","luna","reading"],"id":12015,"author_id":"Adele+Rose"},{"text":"I guess that the goddess Venus wasn’t on my side with this fine specimen of the male gender!","author":"Adele Rose","tags":["alex","goddesses","humour"],"id":13754,"author_id":"Adele+Rose"},{"text":"It's the rule of the wilds. You must be bigger, and stronger, and tougher. A coldness radiates through me, a solid wall that is growing, piece by piece, in my chest. He doesn't love me.He never loved me.It was all a lie.'The old Lena is dead.' I say, and then push past him. Each step is more difficult than the last; the heaviness fills me and turns my limbs to stone.You must hurt or be hurt.","author":"Lauren Oliver","tags":["alex","lena","lies","love","requiem"],"id":18616,"author_id":"Lauren+Oliver"},{"text":"How do you want me to give you that warning?” he added, grinning. Sweat rolled down his chiselled back and he wagged his eyebrows suggestively. “It comes with two settings. One that reads: ‘danger – too hot to handle’ or ‘danger – don’t get too close or you’ll get burnt.","author":"Adele Rose","tags":["alex","blaine","funny","hotness","humour","young-adult-fantasy","young-adult-series"],"id":18702,"author_id":"Adele+Rose"},{"text":"But the fantasy kingdom and trappings of success soon lost their luster, as I discovered that the most prestigious and remunerative of my resume's way stations was also the most tedious and unfulfilling I had ever experienced. This paradox only made me more morose about modernity. Why was I going to watch my hairline recede in front of two-thousand-line spreadsheets staring at me from cold, glowing monitors? Why was everyone in my office apparently so happy to be spending so many hours there, when the things they really cared about - people, pets, pastimes - were all relegated to a few photographs on their desks? That seemed to be the formula: spend the best years of your life in an office with photos of what you really care about.","author":"Zack Love","tags":["alex","choices-success","clarity","family","life-lessons","new-york-city","purpose","short-story","struggle","thought-provoking","unfulfilling-feeling"],"id":19355,"author_id":"Zack+Love"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":78,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}