{"quotes":[{"text":"I've never been able to grow an organ back,' Lana said. 'Last time I tried... Let's just hope you don't end up with whip eyes.","author":"Michael Grant","tags":["fear","gone","healing","humour","lana","michael-grant"],"id":17489,"author_id":"Michael+Grant"},{"text":"No one vinces me, baby.","author":"Michael Grant","tags":["fear","gone","lana","michael-grant","sanjit"],"id":21577,"author_id":"Michael+Grant"},{"text":"Dare to blaze.","author":"Lana M. H. Wilder","tags":["blaze","dare","daring","lana","lana-m-h-wilder","lana-wilder","quote","quotes"],"id":35682,"author_id":"Lana+M.+H.+Wilder"},{"text":"Sam,” Astrid yelled. “Quick.”Sam thought he was too far gone to respond, but he somehow started his feet moving again and went up to where Little Pete was standing and Astrid kneeling.There was a girl lying in the dirt. Her clothing was a mess, her black hair ratty. She was Asian, pretty without being beautiful, and little more than skin and bones. But the first thing they noticed was that her forearms ended in a solid concrete block.Astrid made a quick sign of the cross and pressed two fingers against the girl’s neck. “Lana,” Astrid cried.Lana sized up the situation quickly. “I don’t see any injuries. I think maybe she’s starving or else sick in some other way.”“What’s she doing out here?” Edilio wondered. “Oh, man, what did someone do to her hands?”“I can’t heal hunger,” Lana said. “I tried it on myself when I was with the pack. Didn’t work.”Edilio untwisted the cap from his water bottle, knelt, and carefully drizzled water across the girl’s cheek so that a few drops curled into her mouth.“Look, she’s swallowing.”Edilio broke a tiny bite from one of the PowerBars and placed it gently into the girl’s mouth. After a second the girl’s mouth began to move, to chew.“There’s a road over there,” Sam said. “I think so, anyway. A dirt road, I think.”“Someone drove by and dumped her here,” Astrid agreed.Sam pointed at the dirt. “You can see how she dragged that block.”“Some sick stuff going on,” Edilio muttered angrily. “Who would do something like this?","author":"Michael Grant","tags":["angry","astrid","cement","dumped","edilio","feed","girl","heal","hunger","lana","sam-temple","sick"],"id":67750,"author_id":"Michael+Grant"},{"text":"Can I get a lock for my tent?Bears can't unzip tents, Lana.Well, chainsaw psychos who wander the woods looking for young girls all alone to chop up into pieces can.There are no chainsaw psychos! I can't believe you've never been camping. It's safe, Lana. I promise.Easy for you to say. You'll be snuggled up safely in the arms of Beau Vincent. I'm more than positive he could take on a black bear.","author":"Abbi Glines","tags":["ash","conversation","lana"],"id":253927,"author_id":"Abbi+Glines"},{"text":"You're staring,' Lana said.'Yes. I am. I'm a teenage boy. Beautiful girls in wet underwear have a tendency to cause staring in teenage boys.","author":"Michael Grant","tags":["gone","humor","lana","michael-grant","plague","sanjit","teenagers"],"id":267253,"author_id":"Michael+Grant"},{"text":"Yeah. A feeling. Like the whole point of my life from the alleys in Bangkok to the yachts and private island to coming here like a crazy person trying to fly a helicopter like all of it from birth to here point A to point Z was all some big cosmic trick to get me to meet you. - Sanjit to Lana.","author":"Michael Grant","tags":["fate","lana","sanjit","sweet-talk"],"id":268437,"author_id":"Michael+Grant"},{"text":"Lana's going through them one at a time. Healing them. She's amazing.'Sam thought he heard something extra in Edilio's voice. 'She's cute too, huh Edilio?'Edilio's eyes went wide and started blushing. 'She's just...You know...'Sam slapped his shoulder. 'Good luck with that.'You think she...I mean, you know me, I'm just...' Edilio stammered his way to a stop.'Dude, let's see if we can stay alive. Then you can ask her out or whatever.","author":"Michael Grant","tags":["amazing","cute","edilio","lana","like","sam-temple"],"id":294444,"author_id":"Michael+Grant"},{"text":"Sam, can you, you know, like burn that concrete off her hands?”“No. I can’t aim that precisely.”“I don’t even know what can be done,” Edilio said as he fed the girl another microscopic bite of food. “You try and break that stuff off with a sledge hammer or something, or even a hammer and a chisel, it’s going to really hurt. Probably break every bone in her hands, man.”“Who would have done this to her?” Lana wondered.“That’s a Coates Academy uniform,” Astrid answered. “We’re probably not far from there.","author":"Michael Grant","tags":["astrid","burn","coates-academy","concrete","edilio","hammer","hurt","lana","sam-temple"],"id":315285,"author_id":"Michael+Grant"},{"text":"Guys, he’s hurt bad.”The blonde scrambled to him. She tore the wounded boy’s shirt open. A river of blood ran down his chest.“Oh, God, no,” the blonde cried.Lana pushed her aside and laid a hand against the pumping wound. “He’ll live,” Lana said. “I’ll fix him.”“What do you mean, you’ll fix him?” the blonde demanded. “We need stitches, we need a doctor. Look at how he’s bleeding.”Lana said, “What’s your name?”“Astrid, what does it matter? He’s…” She stopped talking then and leaned in close to see. “The bloodflow is slowing.”“Yeah. I noticed that, too,” Lana said dryly. “Relax. He’ll be fine. In fact…” She tilted her head to get a better look at him. “In fact, I’ll bet when he’s not covered in blood, he’s cute. Your boyfriend?”“That’s not what it’s about,” Astrid snapped. Then, in a low voice, like she didn’t want the others to hear, she said, “Kind of.","author":"Michael Grant","tags":["astrid","boyfriend","fine","heal","hurt","lana","sam-temple"],"id":328676,"author_id":"Michael+Grant"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":15,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}