{"quotes":[{"text":"Sam?”“Yeah.”“I was on the school bus that day. Remember?”“Vaguely,” he said, and laughed. “My fifteen minutes of fame.”“You were the bravest, coolest person I’d ever known. Everyone thought so. You were the hero of the whole school. And then, I don’t know. It was like you kind of just…faded.”He resented that a little. He hadn’t faded. Had he? “Well, most days the bus driver doesn’t have a heart attack,” Sam said.Astrid laughed. “You’re one of those people, I think. You go along in your life just sort of living. And then something goes wrong and there you are. You step up and do what you have to do. Like today, the fire.”“Yeah, well, to tell you the truth, I kind of prefer the other part. The part where I just live my life.”Astrid nodded like she understood, but then she said, “That’s not going to happen this time.","author":"Michael Grant","tags":["astrid","cool","fade","fifteen-minutes-of-fame","hero","live-life","remember","sam-temple","step-up"],"id":51495,"author_id":"Michael+Grant"},{"text":"Love must risk all or perish.","author":"Anthony Ryan","tags":["dare","die","disappear","endeavor","fade","faith","hope","life","love","pain","perish","risk","try","war"],"id":55003,"author_id":"Anthony+Ryan"},{"text":"Life’s harrowing echo only to be faded into exiled loneliness.","author":"Munia Khan","tags":["echo","exile","exiled","fade","faded","life","loneliness","loneliness"],"id":57915,"author_id":"Munia+Khan"},{"text":"I didn't ask if he meant his rescue or the deal with Stalker that involved kissing. I couldn't resist pushing, just a little. 'So it won't bother you if I find someone else?'His jaw clenched, and I saw the muscle move before he got it under control. 'I thought you said you'd fight for me.'And /you/ said it's too late.' I offered him a faint smile along with his watch. 'So it's a good thing I don't intend to listen to you.","author":"Ann Aguirre","tags":["cute","deuce","enclave","fade","horde","love"],"id":61435,"author_id":"Ann+Aguirre"},{"text":"Rebecca woke up with her knees hurting and her fingers ice-cold, and the specifics of her life returned to her as the dream disappeared: weekend, hotel room, Baguio, memory, memory, memory.","author":"Eliza Victoria","tags":["eliza-victoria","epigram-books","fade","fiction","lontar","lontar-4","short-stories","short-story","speculative-fiction"],"id":62963,"author_id":"Eliza+Victoria"},{"text":"I love you, Hsin,' he said hoarsely. 'I missed you so much.'I love you, too.' Sin's voice was still thick and husky. 'I came back for you. Because I wanted to find you, because I wanted to remember you.","author":"Santino Hassell","tags":["boyd","fade","hsin","hsin-liu-vega","icos","santino","sin"],"id":79885,"author_id":"Santino+Hassell"},{"text":"Don't strive to be beautiful from the outside, strive to be beautiful from the inside. Surface beauty will fade through time and age, but beauty from the heart, however, will never fade.","author":"Emily Eaton","tags":["beautiful","fade","heart","love"],"id":86463,"author_id":"Emily+Eaton"},{"text":"Wind and breeze are separated todayCrimson twilight denies to fade away Grass blades turn brown to match the soilWe pretend to smile at every turmoil.","author":"Munia Khan","tags":["breeze","brown","chaos","crimson","crisis","denies","divided","fade","grass","grassblade","match","poem","poetry","poetry","pretend","pretender","quote","separated","smile","smile","soil","today","turmoil","twilight","wind","world-crisis"],"id":107033,"author_id":"Munia+Khan"},{"text":"Maybe one day the smears of paint Harley left throughout Godspeed will fade, and maybe the stars never will, but I'd rather have Harley's colors.","author":"Beth Revis","tags":["a-million-suns","colors","fade","stars"],"id":107486,"author_id":"Beth+Revis"},{"text":"A beautiful woman should always have at the back of her mind that her ravishing appearance is only an ephemeral quality. When she wakes up in the morning, looks into the mirror, and notices that something is fading away, she knows that the time is ripe for marriage. She should be careful of who she takes into her life because the union is gonna be everlasting.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["action","advice","ageing","always","appearance","beautiful","beauty","best-friend","bride","bride-and-groom","charm","decision","delay","ephemeral","eternal","eternity","everlasting","fade","fading","fading-away","finding-someone","forever","growing-old","heart","ladies","lovely","marriage","marry","mirror","old","old-age","quality","ring","rush","soulmate","think-on-it","union","waste","wedding","woman","women"],"id":112940,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":41,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}