{"quotes":[{"text":"What happened to you?' she asked.'Ben was feeling artistic. Wanted to rearrange my face.","author":"Stacey Kade","tags":["alona","ben","body","ghost","goth","kade","soul","stacey","will"],"id":22269,"author_id":"Stacey+Kade"},{"text":"When we’d all settled down from that first night, Julie found a bag on the porch, which we thought must have been left by the same three girls who had brought me to them. Just like the clues on my skin, I’d only been left with two worldly possessions. The first was a wad of cash that I immediately handed to Ben and Julie as compensation for giving me a home. Most of it went to pay for Akinli’s medical bills, which was fine with me. I didn’t know if there was a word bigger than soul mates, something that meant the feeling of being so connected that it was hard to tell where one person ended and the other began. If there was, that word belonged to Akinli and me.The second thing was a bottle of water. It was so peculiar, this water, a blue that was both dark and brilliant, too thick to see through but still carrying light. No matter the season, it was always cold, and there were tiny shells in it that never settled.Sometimes I slept with it, even though it was cold enough to wake me up if I rolled on it the wrong way. It was the only clue I had to tell me who I had been before the night I was left on the porch, and I loved it second only to Akinli.Somehow, I knew that this love was important, as if treasuring the water meant I treasured myself. And I did. I loved my recovering body, I loved my blue-eyed soul mate, I loved my adopted family.I held the water to my chest, and I loved.","author":"Kiera Cass","tags":["akinli","bag","ben","bottled-water","julie","kahlen","love","treasure","water"],"id":49205,"author_id":"Kiera+Cass"},{"text":"Akinli, this strange boy whose life at the moment seemed to be hanging on this, pushed himself from the bed.Julie gasped, watching as his arms trembled under his weight, even as thin as he was. He crushed his eyes together in concentration, willing himself up.I heard Ben whisper to himself, “Come on, come on, come on.”When Akinli, breathing as if he truly had just run a marathon, was fairly close to upright, he held out an arm for me.I fell into it fearlessly.We leaned into each other, neither of us strong enough to stay up on our own.“I thought I’d never see you sit up again,” Julie cried.We both turned to her, smiling at the happy tears on her face.","author":"Kiera Cass","tags":["akinli","ben","cry","happy","hold","julie","kahlen","sit-up","smiling"],"id":58907,"author_id":"Kiera+Cass"},{"text":"I looked at him and the other two people whose names I’d just learned. “So . . . So this is home then?”Akinli looked at me, perplexed, then turned to Ben and Julie.“She said some girls left her here and told her it was home. That’s all she knows. She doesn’t even know you.” Julie wiped at her tears, trying to calm herself.He moved his eyes back to me as quickly as he could manage. “Kahlen? You remember me, right?”I stared into this face, searching for something familiar. I didn’t recognize the angle of his chin, the length of his fingers. I didn’t know the slope of his shoulder or the shape of his lips.“Akinli, right?” I asked. This poor boy. I pitied him in the depths of my heart. Clearly, he’d already been going through something, and I could see the last scrap of fight he had in him dying with those words.“Yes.”“I don’t remember ever seeing you before in my life. I’m sorry.”He pressed his lips together as if he was swallowing the urge to cry.“But,” I said, “I know your voice. I know it as if it were my own.","author":"Kiera Cass","tags":["akinli","amnesia","ben","forgot","julie","kahlen","remember","voice"],"id":85276,"author_id":"Kiera+Cass"},{"text":"In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives. . . .","author":"Stephen King","tags":["bachman","ben","dystopia","king","life","man","network","richard","richards","running","stephen","survival"],"id":150025,"author_id":"Stephen+King"},{"text":"For nearly four weeks, his family had been walking on eggshells around him, expecting him to fall apart at any moment and he was damn tired of it. He wished he could apart. Maybe it would hurt less if he could just say to hell with everything and find a corner to hide away in.","author":"Nicola Sinclair","tags":["ben","break-down","expectations","fall-apart"],"id":176341,"author_id":"Nicola+Sinclair"},{"text":"In the beginning, one soul split into two creating soul mates. And ever the two shall wander seeking each other. -Unknown.","author":"Cathy Hopkins","tags":["ben","henrietta","howard","jo","love","soulmates"],"id":184423,"author_id":"Cathy+Hopkins"},{"text":"Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.","author":"Benjamin Franklin","tags":["ben","feasts","food","fools","franklin"],"id":217954,"author_id":"Benjamin+Franklin"},{"text":"Funyuns make you fart,' Caspian said, and I exploded in laughter.'What's so funny?' Ben asked.I tried to stop laughing, but Caspian was leaning forward now, his face stck right in between us. 'Funyuns give you bad breath, too. Not very attractive to the ladies.' He paused. 'ON second thought... Enjoy your Funyuns, Ben!' I had to bite the side of my cheek to keep from giggling. The fact that Ben had no clue what was going on made it even harder to stop.","author":"Jessica Verday","tags":["abbey","ben","caspian","funny","funyuns"],"id":270074,"author_id":"Jessica+Verday"},{"text":"Are you okay?' I (Cassie) call up to him.'Um. Define okay.' (Ben)'Okay means you're not bleeding to death.'I'm okay.","author":"Rick Yancey","tags":["ben","cassie","funny"],"id":309348,"author_id":"Rick+Yancey"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":16,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}