{"quotes":[{"text":"I tilt my head slightly to one side, taking in her blue sleeveless dress which ends a few inches above her knees. She looks exquisite. Definitely perfect for dessert.“I know what I want to eat and it’s not lemon cake.” I say thickly.Heat flares up in her eyes and I know the cake has been forgotten.She wants to be dessert.","author":"E.R. Wade","tags":["adult-romance","contemporary-romance","forbidden-love","office-romance","romance","secret"],"id":12578,"author_id":"E.R.+Wade"},{"text":"Jace looked as if she had slapped him. 'Why are you determined not to believe us?'Because she loves you,' said Valentine.Clary felt the blood drain out of her face.","author":"Cassandra Clare","tags":["clary-fray","forbidden-love","jace-wayland","love","valentine"],"id":12928,"author_id":"Cassandra+Clare"},{"text":"He was fast becoming the excitement of a tomorrow I never used to look forward to.","author":"Candace Knoebel","tags":["forbidden-love","hope-for-each-day","hopeful","love","romance-book"],"id":18068,"author_id":"Candace+Knoebel"},{"text":"The fact that you can't see how much you're worth makes you worth so much more.' She opened her mouth once, her brow bunched, but nothing came out. She didn't know the words to ask. I continued. 'A diamond doesn't know how much it's worth; it's just beautiful because it exists.","author":"Shelly Crane","tags":["beautiful","diamonds","diamonds-in-the-rough","fantasy","forbidden-love","inspirational","maxton","new-adult-fiction","opposites-attract","romance","science-fiction","science-fiction-young-adult","self-esteem","shelly-crane","sophelia","worthiness","young-adult"],"id":22378,"author_id":"Shelly+Crane"},{"text":"Like the perfect collision of oils on a canvas. She was a walking piece of art. Words and all.","author":"Candace Knoebel","tags":["admiration","art","forbidden-love","inspirational","romance-book"],"id":28916,"author_id":"Candace+Knoebel"},{"text":"That sounds terrific, thought Cary, just you, your comatose wife your shell-shocked son, and your daughter who hates your guts. Not to mention that your two kids may be in love with each other. Yeah, that sounds like a perfect family reunion.","author":"Cassandra Clare","tags":["family","forbidden-love","funny"],"id":35426,"author_id":"Cassandra+Clare"},{"text":"...You are here again,so realistic,just, the golden dawn takes you away in the morning...Be here now,not there,where there is nothingbut starsand emptiness......","author":"Zorica Savron","tags":["dreams","forbidden-love","love","love-poetry","love","unrequited-love"],"id":46955,"author_id":"Zorica+Savron"},{"text":"The sea loved the moonWhen she was supposed to love the shore.The moon knewAnd hence made his intentions known. That she should love the shoreWho was destined for her.Yet his protests seemed weak. And even when he pushed her towards the shore-She always retreated back.To want, to need, to love the moonFor all she's worth.Everyone said, it wasn't meant to happen.Yet, the Tsunami rose that night for their union.","author":"Saiber","tags":["flash-fiction","forbidden-love","hope","impossible-love","life","love","love-affair","love-poem","love","love","magic","moon","nature","night","passion","poem","poetry","rebel","relationships","romance","romantic","saiber","sea","shore","stardust-and-sheets","story","tsunami"],"id":57606,"author_id":"Saiber"},{"text":"If you come away with me, I can promise you pain and disgrace,” I said. “But I will love you like no other can.","author":"Steven E. Wedel","tags":["disgrace","forbidden-love","love","love","pain"],"id":59309,"author_id":"Steven+E.+Wedel"},{"text":"Though I love you to the core of my being, so thoroughly that every cell comprising me aches to be near you, I must accept that we can never be together. For our existence parallels the sun and the moon—a temptation in constant, beautiful view, yet if the sun were ever to kiss the moon it would devour the heavenly orb whole. Oh, my darling, if only I were the moon! Then I would dare taste your lips and be happy for my last and final joy! But alas, I am the sun, and I will not venture to destroy the one I love.","author":"Richelle E. Goodrich","tags":["forbidden-love","lost-love","love","love-letter","love","richelle","richelle-e-goodrich","richelle-goodrich","starcrossed-love"],"id":62437,"author_id":"Richelle+E.+Goodrich"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":53,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}