{"quotes":[{"text":"Nobody, she felt, understood her--not her mother, not her father, not her sister or brother, none of the girls or boys at school, nadie--except her man.","author":"Raquel Cepeda","tags":["adolescence","first-love","infatuation","love","lust","teenage-love","teenagers"],"id":2087,"author_id":"Raquel+Cepeda"},{"text":"Never dreaming, was I, poor Jack Duluoz, that the soul is dead. That from Heaven grace descends . . . No Doctor Pisspot Poorpail to tell me; no example inside my first and only skin. That love is the heritage, and cousin to death. That the only love can only be the first love, the only death the last, the only life within, and the only word . . . Choked forever.","author":"Jack Kerouac","tags":["first-love","loss","love","pain"],"id":2439,"author_id":"Jack+Kerouac"},{"text":"I know what it feels like to miss everything about him--the way he smells, the way his mouth curls up when he laughs, his voice.","author":"Travis Neighbor Ward","tags":["first-love","friendship","hurt","marriage","military-romance","parenting","romance","southern","true-love"],"id":4453,"author_id":"Travis+Neighbor+Ward"},{"text":"She had not told her mother about Denys, but she had a suspicion that Mrs. Shannon knew all about it nevertheless. It was unlike her not to want to satisfy her curiosity when she came upon her daughter sobbing in various parts of the house. She had asked no questions; she had simply donned the role of the heavily understanding mother, and had done a lot of shoulder-patting and given Mary an expensive evening dress from the shop. Mary had no idea how she knew, but was certain that if she had not known she would never have rested until she did.","author":"Monica Dickens","tags":["first-love","mother-daughter-relationship","teenagers"],"id":5694,"author_id":"Monica+Dickens"},{"text":"It’s destiny; the stars have aligned perfectly to bring us together as friends. You cannot argue with what’s meant to be, once the stars have spoken, it is absolute,” he uttered, all smug and knowing. Shocked that he used the word destiny, I cocked my head and shot him a look—for the first time actually seeing Parker. He was pretty…too pretty to be a guy; streaky blond hair—as if each streak had been strategically placed—dark eyes, pale skin, and a charming smile that dimpled in one cheek. “Destiny has already found me, with a clearly marked path for my future,” I retorted. “Then you are doubly fortunate, to have it find you twice.” Parker smiled again, his eyes eerily piercing into mine.","author":"Deborah Ann","tags":["destiny","fairy-tale","fate","first-love","paranormal-romance","romance","seventh-son-of-a-seventh-son","vampire-hunter","vampires","young-adult-romance"],"id":9991,"author_id":"Deborah+Ann"},{"text":"There were lies, and there were lies. Was a secret a lie? If one wanted to protect another?","author":"Kristen Callihan","tags":["believe-in","fantasy","firelight","first-love","kristen-callihan","lies","love","passion","protect","protect-another","secret","secret-lie","trust","what-is-lie"],"id":10838,"author_id":"Kristen+Callihan"},{"text":"No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? ","author":"Albert Einstein","tags":["chemistry","first-love","love","physics"],"id":15866,"author_id":"Albert+Einstein"},{"text":"I haven’t had the chance to look at too many men’s faces up close. And I noticed how his skin was thicker than mine, and a gorgeous shade of toast. The stiff blond hairs on his cheeks and chin seemed to be growing before my eyes. He smelled like starch. Like pine. His nose wasn’t so pointy afterall. …And out of the blue, he kissed me. Right in the middle of the Robert E. Lee Hotel Restaurant, he kissed me so slowly with an open mouth and every single thing in my body-my skin, my collarbone, the hollow backs of my knees, everything inside of me filled up with light.","author":"Kathryn Stockett","tags":["first-love","kissing","men"],"id":18734,"author_id":"Kathryn+Stockett"},{"text":"He reflects on all the times he thought she wasn’t sure of her feelings for him, when perhaps she might’ve been taking a leisurely stroll across Elijah’s heart, leaving footprints behind that he’d never seen.","author":"Christy A. Campbell","tags":["depression","fantasy-fiction","fantasy-romance","fantasy-young-adult","first-love","ghosts","love-story","mystery","mystery-suspense","paranormal-romance","romance","teen","teen-fantasy","teens","young-adult-fantasy","young-adult-fiction","young-adult-novels","young-adult-romance","young-love"],"id":18978,"author_id":"Christy+A.+Campbell"},{"text":"When did you first fall in love?'I think, I first fell in lovewhen I was in fifth gradewith this boy who kept his glass ruler in the sunlight and made rainbows on my desk with it.","author":"Saiber","tags":["crush","cute","cute-moments","fifth-grade","first-crush","first-love","free-verse-poetry","humor","innocence","love","love-poem","love","love-and-saying","memories","rainbows","relationship","saiber","sunlight","young-love"],"id":21657,"author_id":"Saiber"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":180,"pages":18,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}