{"quotes":[{"text":"The fly that should be dead and the dog that should be dead in the house that should be dead, and the bride, who would be dead soon.It watched approvingly, appreciating the complexities—and fragilities—of life.","author":"Nancy Holder","tags":["death","gothic-romance","horror"],"id":2138,"author_id":"Nancy+Holder"},{"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":"It seemed to me that Mr. Forrester would approve of a woman who could follow him in conversation and not be baffled by ledgers and currency conversions. I had grossly overestimated him.","author":"Gwenn Wright","tags":["chick-lit","family-saga","gothic-romance","historical-fiction","strong-heroine","suspense","von-strassenberg","young-adult"],"id":30574,"author_id":"Gwenn+Wright"},{"text":"You can speak to me like you haven’t spoken even to yourself.","author":"Simona Panova","tags":["betray","betrayal","better","cardew","comfort","confess","confessor","freya","gothic","gothic-romance","honest","like","love","loyal","loyalty","me","nightmarish","nightmarish-sacrifice","relationship","relationships","romance","sacrifice","soothe","speak","suspense","talk","trust","trusting","trustworthy","truth","truthful","what-to-say","you","young-adult","yourself"],"id":42861,"author_id":"Simona+Panova"},{"text":"She would've made an excellent pirate.","author":"Erica Ridley","tags":["cozy-mystery","ghosts","gothic-romance"],"id":47343,"author_id":"Erica+Ridley"},{"text":"The questions push me further into the space in between, the place where my madness lays waiting for me. I struggle with each question, determined to extract some sort of answer, an explanation for everything that has happened so far. But no answers come and I’m forced to acknowledge the feeling lodged between my two worldsTerror.","author":"Christine Fonseca","tags":["gothic-romance","horror","psychological-thriller","ya"],"id":92616,"author_id":"Christine+Fonseca"},{"text":"I never really wanted to die. But I followed through anyway. The pain in my heart was excruciating, and death was beautiful.","author":"Rae Hachton","tags":["death","death-and-dying","first-lines","gothic-fantasy","gothic-romance","love","opening-sentences","vampire-romance"],"id":92636,"author_id":"Rae+Hachton"},{"text":"Good evening, you poor little Orphans of a Loveless God. Good evening to you blood sucking fools.","author":"Paula Heath","tags":["gothic","gothic-fiction","gothic-romance","paranormal","paranormal-romance","supernatural","vampire","vampires"],"id":102435,"author_id":"Paula+Heath"},{"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":"He stood at the foot of the grave, gloved hands clasped behind him, his dark clothes and hair blending into one black silhouette, as if he were not a presence but an absence, a hole cut out of the landscape.","author":"Amanda DeWees","tags":["gothic-romance","historical-romance"],"id":123815,"author_id":"Amanda+DeWees"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":43,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}