{"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":"The utter unbroken silence was more appalling than any ominous noise, than the loudest yells of anguish, than the most piercing screaming...Dead silence.Literally dead.","author":"Simona Panova","tags":["anguish","appalling","appealing","atmosphere","atmospheric","calm","calmness","dead","death","goth","gothic","gothic-romance","literal","literally","loud","mysterious","mystery","noise","noiseless","onimous","pain","painful","quiet","romance","romantic","serene","silence","silent","sinister","suspense","tranquil","unbroken","yell","young-adult"],"id":23410,"author_id":"Simona+Panova"},{"text":"You kissed me once and now you feel as if you’ve got some special kind of licence to do it whenever you want?","author":"Simona Panova","tags":["allow","boy","desire","desires","fancy","flirt","forbid","forbidden","girl","goth","gothic","kiss","kissing","let","licence","longing","love","loved","loving","once","permission","relationship","relationships","romance","special","suspense","twice","want","wish","yearn","yearning","young-adult","young-adult-gothic-romance","young-adult-romance"],"id":24769,"author_id":"Simona+Panova"},{"text":"She raised a sharp eyebrow at him. 'Vlad, no offense, but look at you. If you're not a vampire, you're clearly the most anemic goth I've ever seen.'... 'We believed you. Because that's what friends do.'pg267 October to Vlad.","author":"Heather Brewer","tags":["anemic","friends","goth","humor","october","vampire","vlad"],"id":29732,"author_id":"Heather+Brewer"},{"text":"I realized how much it must suck to be a parent. You devote everything to your kids, who just end up growing up and disliking you. I felt bad for them briefly, but at least they had each other. In that moment I decided I wouldn't have kids. I don't think I could handle the level of betrayal I'd feel once I realized they weren't interested in me anymore.","author":"Sara Taylor","tags":["birthday-massacre","chibi","children","goth","metal","parent"],"id":61990,"author_id":"Sara+Taylor"},{"text":"Amy had always thought she was too vain and selfish to seriously contemplate suicide, also too afraid of pain. She realized now that when she'd thought that, she hadn't understood how painful existence could get. It could get so painful, it turned out, that any other kind of pain began to seem preferable. She felt ridiculous thinking these goth-teenager thoughts, but they were real.","author":"Emily Gould","tags":["depressed","depression","existence","goth","pain","suicide"],"id":65645,"author_id":"Emily+Gould"},{"text":"I never saw 'being different' in and of itself as the point to 'being Goth' -- dressing different from most others, maybe, but the point to me was to get together with people who liked the same music and clothes, or at least very similar music and clothes, and go to clubs, go to movies, go to coffee-houses and hold poetry readings and, in general, just have some good harmless fun. Did I look like a dork? Sure, but so did everybody else in the club. We weren't 'being different', at least not all of us, we just were different and the point was to stop bitching about being different and just have fun.","author":"Ruadhán J. McElroy","tags":["fun","goth","youth"],"id":73175,"author_id":"Ruadh%C3%A1n+J.+McElroy"},{"text":"Brian came in heavy at that moment on his guitar, the rapid, high-pitched squeal ranging back and forth as his fingers flew along the frets. As the intro's tempo grew more rapid, Bekka heard Derek's subtle bass line as it worked its way in. After another few seconds Will came in, slow at first, but racing along to match the others' pace. When their combined efforts seemed unable to get any heavier, David jumped into the mix.As the sound got nice and heavy, Bekka began to rock back-and-forth onstage. In front of her, hundreds of metal-lovers began to jump and gyrate to their music. She matched their movements for a moment, enjoying the connection that was being made, before stepping over to the keyboard that had been set up behind her. Sliding her microphone into an attached cradle, she assumed her position and got ready. Right on cue, all the others stopped playing, throwing the auditorium into an abrupt silence. Before the crowd could react, however, Bekka's fingers began to work the keys, issuing a rhythm that was much softer and slower than what had been built up. The audience's violent thrash-dance calmed at that moment and they began to sway in response.Bekka smiled to herself.This is what she lived for.","author":"Nathan Squiers","tags":["action","adventure","bass","bassist","blood","bloodtone","concert","dark","demon","demons","drummer","drums","goth","gothic","group","guitar","guitarist","horror","music","musician","perform","possess","prince","sing","singer","singing","theriomorph","therion","therions","thriller","vamp","vampire","vampires","vocal","vocalist","were","werewolf","werewolves"],"id":117109,"author_id":"Nathan+Squiers"},{"text":"Oh, he did look like a deity – the perfect balance of danger and charm, he was at the same time fascinating and inaccessible, distant because of his demonstrated flawlessness, and possessing such strength of character that he was dismaying and at the same time utterly attractive in an enticing and forbidden way.","author":"Simona Panova","tags":["attract","attraction","attractive","balance","beautiful","beauty","bewitch","bewitched","bewitching","boy","character","character-description","charm","charming","crush","danger","dangerous","deity","demonstrate","demonstrative","description","dismay","dismaying","distant","entice","enticed","enticing","fascinating","female","flawless","flawlessness","forbid","forbidden","girl","god","goddess","goth","gothic","gothic-romance","handsome","he","hero","heroic","in-love","inaccessible","legend","look","looks","love","male","man","myth","mythology","nightmare","perfect","perfection","personality","possess","possession","possessive","pretty","relationship","relationships","romance","romantic","she","suspense","tempt","temptation","tempted","tempting","woman","young-adult","young-adult-gothic-romance"],"id":123410,"author_id":"Simona+Panova"},{"text":"Even I don’t know myself... In fact, I don’t know if I really have a self at all, as I’m constantly playing different roles and pretending – not so much on stage as in real life...","author":"Simona Panova","tags":["acting","actor","aware","awareness","crisis","different","even","fact","goth","gothic","gothic-romance","hidden","hide","identity","know","know-myself","know-yourself","knowledge","life","live","living","love","mask","masks","play","playing","postmodern","postmodernism","real-life","reality","relationship","relationships","role","roles","romance","romantic","self","self-awareness","self-identity-crisis","self-image","suspense","understand","understanding","young-adult","young-adult-gothic-romance"],"id":127645,"author_id":"Simona+Panova"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":40,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}