{"quotes":[{"text":"Trolls have existed on this planet for as long as humans. This is what I was told and what I translated to Tub. The first mention of them in recorded history is from ninth-century Norway, when the nefarious creatures began showing up in song, verse, and bedtime stories to keep misbehaving children in line. According to Norse folklore, trolls are one of the Dark Beings, the purest embodiments of evil, and they scurried from between the toes of Ymir, the mythic six-headed Frost Giant whose murdered body became the universe in which we live; his bones became the mountains, his teeth boulders, and so forth.","author":"Guillermo del Toro","tags":["horror","middle-grade-fantasy","trolls"],"id":16371,"author_id":"Guillermo+del+Toro"},{"text":"When things are good, it is because we remember a time when they were not. When there was pain. But now the pain is gone, so things are ‘good’. When we hurt, it is because we recall a time when we did not. When there was no pain. But now we suffer, so things are ‘bad’. The tiger sipped from the cup, peering at the boy over the rim. Stars swirled in its eyes. “Good. Bad. The cup holds both.","author":"Brooke Burgess","tags":["buddhism","cats","consciousness","goodness-and-evil","inspirational","middle-grade-fantasy","mysticism","suffering","tao","tea","wisdom"],"id":24028,"author_id":"Brooke+Burgess"},{"text":"That poor innocent snake was far more terrified of Nana then she ever was of the snake. Cricket could barely believe her eyes, but when that shotgun went off with a boom so did the snake. Up until yesterday, Cricket had never seen a snake fly!","author":"Darwun St. James","tags":["adventure-stories","female-hero","female-protagonist","girl-power","heartwarming","heroine","magic","middle-grade-fantasy","shapeshifters"],"id":33217,"author_id":"Darwun+St.+James"},{"text":"He felt weighted down by guilt and regret for what might have been his last words to all of them.","author":"Karen Ann Wirtz","tags":["guilt","last-words","middle-grade","middle-grade-fantasy","paranormal","paranormal-fiction","regret","weighted-down"],"id":73147,"author_id":"Karen+Ann+Wirtz"},{"text":"Now, he'd loved money for money's sake. He loved the feel of it, not only in his hands, but also in his heart.","author":"Steven J. Carroll","tags":["greed","middle-grade","middle-grade-fantasy","money","selfishness"],"id":112802,"author_id":"Steven+J.+Carroll"},{"text":"There were fat cats and skinny cats. The long-tailed and the bobbed. The daring young leapers, and the old windowsill sleepers. Balls of waddling fluff, smooth-coated prowlers, and hairless ones that looked fragile and wise. The tiger-striped, the ring-tailed, and the ones with matching coloured socks and mittens. There were tabbies and calicos. Manx and Persians. Siamese and Bombay. Ragdolls and Birmans. Maine Coons and Russian Blues. There were Snowshoes and Somalis, Tonkinese and Turkish, and many, many more. Brown and beige and orange and grey and black and white and silver cats, each with gleaming eyes of emerald, or sapphire, or amber. A rainbow of precious stones.","author":"Brooke Burgess","tags":["adventure","cats","children-s-books","fairytale","fantasy","halloween","horror","kidslit","magic","middle-grade-fantasy","mystery-suspense","thriller"],"id":122293,"author_id":"Brooke+Burgess"},{"text":"He looked up at the stars as the storm closed in and saw them extinguished, one-by-one, until just two remained. They glimmered and shone through gaps in the clouds like two great eyes in the darkness, burning on a demon’s face that chased him across the sea.","author":"Brooke Burgess","tags":["adventure","cats","demons","epic","halloween","horror","middle-grade-fantasy","mystery-thriller","neil-gaiman","pirates","saga","young-adult"],"id":147743,"author_id":"Brooke+Burgess"},{"text":"I can do whatever I wish. That's the benefit of being me.' ~ Belial.","author":"Sharon Ledwith","tags":["atlantis","fantasy","middle-grade-fantasy","ya"],"id":155069,"author_id":"Sharon+Ledwith"},{"text":"When I grow up, maybe I will bethe first one to circle the sea.Or maybe I will just spend all my daydoing everything my way.Maybe I will be in a world of my ownI just hope not alone.I just know that whatever I doI will never, ever forget about you.","author":"Oliver Neubert","tags":["adventure","avid-reader","coming-of-age","fable","female-protagonist","life-skills","middle-grade-fantasy","reluctant-reader"],"id":180046,"author_id":"Oliver+Neubert"},{"text":"He paused in the hallway, sniffing the air. He scowled, sniffed some more. He pressed an intercom button on the wall.\t'Betty, I distinctly smell sewage. Could you get a plumber out here ASAP?'\tSeveral curly hairs fluttered in the air after he was gone.\tI clutched at the arm of the dentist chair.\t'This isn't a joke, Tub! I'm in trouble. We're all in trouble, the whole town, the whole world! You have no clue. You have no idea what kind of things we're dealing with here. There's a whole land of --.","author":"Guillermo del Toro","tags":["bridges","campy","fantasy","horror","middle-grade-fantasy","trolls"],"id":237160,"author_id":"Guillermo+del+Toro"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":25,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}