{"quotes":[{"text":"The black of the ocean waves was the color of the sorrow in my breast, a sorrow that was never far away and always visible.","author":"Barbara T. Cerny","tags":["1100s","angel","angels","animagus","d-d","devil","devil-touched","druids","duchy","duke","dungeons-and-dragons","dungeons-dragons","early-church","evil","exorcism","family","fantasy","glaxton","god","harpy","heaven","hell","historical","historical-romance","hounds-of-hell","lord","love","macbeth","manor","nobility","nun","paranormal-romance","peasant","pictish","redemption","relationships","religion","righteousness","romance","sacred-sword","scotland","soul","souls","tiefling","time-manipulation","vampires","viking","wolf"],"id":67307,"author_id":"Barbara+T.+Cerny"},{"text":"I did not choose to be a monster—a shell of a man—half-human, half-fiend. I am a tiefling. I am what I am.","author":"Barbara T. 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My entire being awakened to that kiss feeding me ecstasy, feeding me life.","author":"Barbara T. Cerny","tags":["1100s","angel","angels","animagus","d-d","devil","devil-touched","druids","duchy","duke","dungeons-and-dragons","dungeons-dragons","early-church","evil","exorcism","family","fantasy","glaxton","god","harpy","heaven","hell","historical","historical-romance","hounds-of-hell","lord","love","macbeth","manor","nobility","nun","paranormal","peasant","pictish","redemption","relationships","religion","righteousness","romance","sacred-sword","scotland","soul","souls","tiefling","time-manipulation","vampires","viking","wolf"],"id":334406,"author_id":"Barbara+T.+Cerny"},{"text":"My life was going exactly where I wanted it to until the Devil showed up.","author":"Barbara T. 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