{"quotes":[{"text":"We formed an impromptu circle just so we could look at each other and memorize faces. We hardly noticed the waiting officials. We hardly noticed anything but our little family whose ties weren’t loosening at all. In fact, this impending separation only seemed to be binding us together with a double overhand knot, hard to untie and unfailing.","author":"Laura Anderson Kurk","tags":["dating","desperation","family","glass-girl","government","grief","henry-whitmire","laura-anderson-kurk","long-distance-relationship","loss","love","meg-kavanagh","nicaragua","orphanage","orphans","perfect-glass","prayer","romance"],"id":14050,"author_id":"Laura+Anderson+Kurk"},{"text":"He leaned toward me and said his name like he was sharing a secret and it made me think he probably kept a lot of secrets. His smile was sweet and his teeth the tiniest bit crooked.","author":"Laura Anderson Kurk","tags":["attraction","dating","glass-girl","henry-whitmire","love","meg-kavanagh","secrets"],"id":26010,"author_id":"Laura+Anderson+Kurk"},{"text":"Is there one in particular, Tennyson?” Henry said, ducking out from under her arm. “I could arrange a meeting.” “Yeah, the one from Texas…what’s his name?”“That would be Dylan. But he’s a nice guy and you’d break his heart. He dropped out of Texas A\u0026M to come up here and saddle bum around with my horses year-round. Knowing your dad, I think you’d better be looking for a pre-med honors student.”“Leave my dad out of this.","author":"Laura Anderson Kurk","tags":["dating","glass-girl","henry-whitmire","laura-anderson-kurk","meg-kavanagh","teen-fiction","texas-a-m-university","wyoming","ya-fiction","young-adult-fiction"],"id":33554,"author_id":"Laura+Anderson+Kurk"},{"text":"Hold still, Meg, you’re dripping blood on my car seats.”I reached behind the passenger seat of Tennyson’s car looking for the white sheet she’d thrown in for mopping up bodily fluids. Quinn, sitting in the back seat, read my mind and handed it to me. “Thank you.”“No problem.” He leaned forward, pulling a corner of the sheet up to wipe off a small stream of blood on my neck. “You okay?","author":"Laura Anderson Kurk","tags":["dating","distracted-driving","glass-girl","henry-whitmire","high-school","laura-anderson-kurk","long-distance-relationships","meg-kavanagh","perfect-glass","quinn-o-neill","romance","teen-fiction","texting","ya","young-adult-fiction"],"id":39356,"author_id":"Laura+Anderson+Kurk"},{"text":"And what do you want?”I almost choked. “How could you even ask me that, Henry?”He sighed. “Because I’m thousands of miles away. Because I Skyped into your living room late one night and there’s a dude sitting next to you in the dark. Because Thanet tells me things. And Tennyson sent me a picture of you in a dress that looks like lingerie.”“It’s not that bad,” I said.“I didn’t say it was bad, Meg. It’s about a million miles from bad.” His voice was breaking with exasperation. “Things are crazy here, and I’m questioning everything.","author":"Laura Anderson Kurk","tags":["breakups","dating","glass-girl","henry-whitmire","high-school","jealousy","laura-anderson-kurk","long-distance-relationships","love","meg-kavanagh","nicaragua","orphanage","perfect-glass","playlist-fiction","romance","skype","wyoming"],"id":53001,"author_id":"Laura+Anderson+Kurk"},{"text":"I worried I would miss it, and I knew, from losing Wyatt, that things happen the moment the soul is released. Wyatt had been there in the school, watching me, making sure I survived. Souls linger…they do. They linger a bit before they turn toward eternity. It could be that no matter how perfect their future will be, the past still tugs for a moment.","author":"Laura Anderson Kurk","tags":["art","artist","creativity","death","dying","glass-girl","grief","henry-whitmire","hospital","jo-russell","laura-anderson-kurk","meg-kavanagh","perfect-glass","soul","teen-fiction","teen-literature","what-happens-when-you-die","ya","young-adult-fiction"],"id":74861,"author_id":"Laura+Anderson+Kurk"},{"text":"On the best nights, he’d appear outside the bookstore window and wait for me to unlock the door. He usually hadn’t had time to shower between doing things with cattle and horses and coming to find me, and he looked older than us and stronger than us.","author":"Laura Anderson Kurk","tags":["bookstore","dating","glass-girl","henry-whitmire","laura-anderson-kurk","love","meg-kavanagh","teen-fiction","wyoming","ya-fiction","young-adult-fiction"],"id":78535,"author_id":"Laura+Anderson+Kurk"},{"text":"Most kids grow sullen and angry when they’re working through issues, but Thanet mustered up another kind of bull-headed strength. The kind that sees beyond circumstances to what really matters. How could anyone hurt a soul that lovely?","author":"Laura Anderson Kurk","tags":["bullying","cerebral-palsy","dating","glass-girl","grief","henry-whitmire","laura-anderson-kurk","meg-kavanagh","teen-fiction","thanet","ya-fiction","young-adult"],"id":94113,"author_id":"Laura+Anderson+Kurk"},{"text":"Quinn spoke their language—all mystery and inside jokes, scarred souls and statement shirts. It was a beautiful moment for him—in his element and completely happy.When they started playing, he leaned over and whispered in my ear. “See that guitar?”I nodded.“That’s a 1969 Martin D28. Hear me when I say if I had to choose between a beautiful girl and that guitar, I’d choose the guitar. Natch.” He took a huge gulp of water, clearly affected.“Naturally,” I whispered. “It could be why you’re still single.","author":"Laura Anderson Kurk","tags":["dating","glass-girl","guitar","henry-whitmire","indie-band","laura-anderson-kurk","long-distance-relationship","love","martin-guitar","meg-kavanagh","music","perfect-glass","quinn-o-neill","rock-band","romance","teen-fiction","teen-literature","ya","young-adult-fiction"],"id":113224,"author_id":"Laura+Anderson+Kurk"},{"text":"I turned my ear toward the door because I heard him breathing. When you’re alone and afraid, the simple sound of the steady in and out of air being drawn by another person is good medicine.","author":"Laura Anderson Kurk","tags":["alone","dating","fear","henry-whitmire","love","meg-kavanagh","panic"],"id":124615,"author_id":"Laura+Anderson+Kurk"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":49,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}