{"quotes":[{"text":"Asked about the fact that Apple's iTunes software for Windows computers was extremely popular, Jobs joked, 'It's like giving a glass of ice water to somebody in hell.","author":"Walter Isaacson","tags":["biography","computers","itunes","mac","steve-jobs","windows"],"id":6539,"author_id":"Walter+Isaacson"},{"text":"We stand strong, or we cower. We emerge victorious, tempered by our trials , or fractured by a permanent, damming fault line.","author":"Karen Marie Moning","tags":["character","life","life-lesson","mac","mackayla","mackayla-lane"],"id":39575,"author_id":"Karen+Marie+Moning"},{"text":"So?' Mac says.I shrug.'Oh, come on! Don't tell me you didn't feel something? That you didn't enjoy it?'It was nice, I guess.'You guess?' Mac laughs and swipes his hair from his brow. 'Tough crowd.'Yeah, well, I guess you are an acquired taste.","author":"Ashley Mansour","tags":["blood-ink-fire","mac","noelle","noelle-hartley","ya","young-adult"],"id":86268,"author_id":"Ashley+Mansour"},{"text":"Then why was his tongue in your mouth? Was he conducting a clinical test of your gag reflex?' He smiled, but not nicely. 'How is your gag reflex, Ms. Lane? Are you a hair trigger?'Barrons likes to use sexual innuendo to try to shut me up. I think he expects the well-raised southern belle in me will think eew and back off. Sometimes, I do think eew, but I don't back off. 'I'm a spitter, if that's what you're asking.' I flashed him a too-sweet smile.'Didn't look that way to me. I think you're a swallower. His tongue was halfway to China and you were still taking it.'Jealous?","author":"Karen Marie Moning","tags":["barrons","fever","jealousy","kissing","mac"],"id":99645,"author_id":"Karen+Marie+Moning"},{"text":"Tell me it's not true.'He sighed. 'Fine. It's not true.'...And yet...'Are you lying?'He rolled his eyes. 'Of course I'm lying.'Not cool.' I muttered.Kyle shrugged. 'I didn't want you to start hyperventilating again.' His hair fell over his eyes and he brushed it aside. 'I figured annoying you was safer than admitting anything.","author":"Kathleen Peacock","tags":["hemlock","kyle","lol","lying","mac"],"id":100684,"author_id":"Kathleen+Peacock"},{"text":"I think sex with him might undo my essential cellular cohesion.","author":"Karen Marie Moning","tags":["lust","mac","v-lane"],"id":156500,"author_id":"Karen+Marie+Moning"},{"text":"It's often only in the lies we refuse to speak that any truth can be heard at all.","author":"Karen Marie Moning","tags":["darkfever","karen-marie-moning","mac","truth"],"id":165124,"author_id":"Karen+Marie+Moning"},{"text":"Things we had, like respect and trust, but also freely expressed desires and accountability to whatever degree it took to make both people happy. It took work, a willingness to fight passionately and fairly--out of bed, not just in it--commitment and honesty. It took waking up and saying each day, 'I hold this man sacred and always will. He's my sun, moon, and stars.' It took letting the other person in; a thing I'd stopped doing. It took being unafraid to ask for what you wanted, to put yourself on the line, to risk it all for love.","author":"Karen Marie Moning","tags":["barrons","love","mac","relationships"],"id":219921,"author_id":"Karen+Marie+Moning"},{"text":"You only really fall apart in front of the people you know can piece you back together.","author":"Sarah Dessen","tags":["fall-apart","friendship","layla","mac","sydney"],"id":225827,"author_id":"Sarah+Dessen"},{"text":"For as long as I could remember, other people had either overshadowed me or left me out in the open, alone. But Mac, as Layla had said all those weeks ago, was always somewhere nearby. He left me enough space to stand alone, but stood at the ready for the moment that I didn’t want to. It was the perfect medium, I was learning. Like he was my saint, the one I’d been waiting for.","author":"Sarah Dessen","tags":["love","mac","relationships","saint","soulmates"],"id":269262,"author_id":"Sarah+Dessen"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":18,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}