{"quotes":[{"text":"Her heart was telling her to trust him, but it wouldn’t be the first time that that foolish muscle, there in the middle of her chest, had betrayed her.","author":"Mirella Muffarotto","tags":["2014","coming-of-age","coming-of-age-love-story","destiny","epic-love","fate","fiction","love","love-and-romance","love-hurts","love-stories","love-triangles","novel","romance","romeo-and-juliet","sports-themed-ya-na","star-crossed-lovers","teen","teen-drama","teen-romance","teenage-love","ya","young-adult","young-adult-contemporary","young-adult-fiction","young-adult-novels","young-adult-romance","young-adult-series","young-love"],"id":10597,"author_id":"Mirella+Muffarotto"},{"text":"A disproportionate number of stories are love stories – and what is homosexuality but a special narrative of love?","author":"Christopher Bram","tags":["gay","love-stories","writers"],"id":33742,"author_id":"Christopher+Bram"},{"text":"Most people think that love doesn’t stand the test of time – that it is eternal only as long as it lasts – but love is an unquenchable flame. It is only the fires of momentary desire that burn too fast and go out far too quickly without leaving behind a single trace.","author":"Mirella Muffarotto","tags":["coming-of-age-love-story","destiny","epic-love","fate","love","love-and-romance","love-hurts","love-stories","soulmates","star-crossed-lovers","teen-romance","teenage-love","true-love","ya-fiction","young-adult","young-adult-contemporary","young-adult-fiction","young-adult-novels","young-adult-romance","young-adult-series","young-love"],"id":57343,"author_id":"Mirella+Muffarotto"},{"text":"...Unforgivingly, and forcefully magnificent...","author":"Maquita Donyel Irvin","tags":["art","artist","be-present","beautiful-mind","beautiful-women","black-women","black-women-writers","black-writers","bloom","christian-writers","coincidence","complete","faith","faith-in-god","flower","growth","hope","imperfect","imperfections","jesus","love","love-poems","love","love-stories","lovely","no-coincidences","perfectly-imperfect","poems","purposeful-living","rare","relationship","relationships","single","single-woman","stories-of-a-polished-pistil","trust","wanderer","wanderlust","whole","women-writers"],"id":65057,"author_id":"Maquita+Donyel+Irvin"},{"text":"A true love story has always been about the journey, not the ending.","author":"Shannon L. 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I can literally feel my brain cells frying. Who's dumb as a rock now, Alexis?I feel completely frozen and can’t move. I don’t even think I want to. Blink, Richards, blink.'-AlexisWhat happens to someone who has everything figured out and doesn't let anyone rattle her?To some love is exciting. To her, it's a nuisance.","author":"Kristina Steiner","tags":["contemporary-romance","equinox","love","love-stories","love-story","novels","relationships","romance","romance-novels","romance-novels-books"],"id":125688,"author_id":"Kristina+Steiner"},{"text":"Somehow they were entwining without touch, following a choreography laid down in time for lovers.","author":"Emma Calin","tags":["love","love-stories","lovers","romance","romance-novel"],"id":142273,"author_id":"Emma+Calin"},{"text":"Love is the strength of life.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["advice","couple","encouragement","family","friendship","humanity","inner-strength","lessons-learnt","life","life-lessons","love","love-stories","loves","marriage","motivation","relationship","romance","self-help","self-love","sharing-life","shine-your-light","spirituality","strength","uplifting","wedding","wisdom-of-lailah-gifty-akita"],"id":146819,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"I feel your words on my lipsand feel your mood in my hips.","author":"Maquita Donyel Irvin","tags":["feels","femininity","hips","lips","love","love-poems-for-him","love-poems-poetry-romance","love","love-stories","new-love","poems","relationship","self-expression","true-love","woman"],"id":148648,"author_id":"Maquita+Donyel+Irvin"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":34,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}