{"quotes":[{"text":"If you're around someone who makes you feel good, you have to go for it. Don't hold back.","author":"Faith Sullivan","tags":["new-adult","new-adult-contemporary-romance","new-adult-fiction","new-adult-lit","new-adult-romance"],"id":302,"author_id":"Faith+Sullivan"},{"text":"Caring for someone is scary, because you both know how it feels to lose someone in the span of a heartbeat.","author":"Nicole Williams","tags":["bad-boys","new-adult","romance"],"id":770,"author_id":"Nicole+Williams"},{"text":"I plucked one plump black olive from the plate and put it in my mouth immediately before saying, “Well, I feel bad for you, then.”“Why’s that?”“Because I love antipasto.”“I guess I don’t understand why that’s a problem.”“Because,” I emphasized, cutting into a piece of salmon. “I don’t like to share.” I quickly slipped the smoked meat in my mouth before winking at him. His smile finally met his eyes again. “Good to know, because I’m not the sharing kind of guy either.” He winked back at me, but it was so blatantly comical that I couldn’t help the laugh that flew out of my mouth. “Something tells me you’re not talking about cured meats,” I said before slapping his hand away from my olives. “I knew you were smart.”I swallowed the olive I’d snatched from his hand and glared at him, while mouthing, “Mine.”“Funny, that’s what I was thinking, too,” he said, looking directly at me.","author":"Whitney Barbetti","tags":["new-adult","new-adult-romance","new-adult-romance-suspense","romance"],"id":1411,"author_id":"Whitney+Barbetti"},{"text":"I didn’t have to look at him to know I’d just lost everything I’d ever wanted because I felt it. I felt the loss seep into bone and tissue. I felt it settle between the cracks in my heart and the empty holes in my soul.","author":"Julie Bale","tags":["contemporary-romance","julie-bale","new-adult","new-adult-romance","romance"],"id":2310,"author_id":"Julie+Bale"},{"text":"He now realized that right and wrong were intertwined notions. His arms could not differentiate between just and unjust causes. They only knew that they were empty.","author":"Roy L. Pickering Jr.","tags":["african-american","contemporary","fiction","new-adult","novel","patches-of-grey","roy-pickering"],"id":2329,"author_id":"Roy+L.+Pickering+Jr."},{"text":"He kissed me with a fire like no other, as if he were afraid breaking the kiss would break us.","author":"Magan Vernon","tags":["new-adult","the-only-exception"],"id":3135,"author_id":"Magan+Vernon"},{"text":"You don’t put pressure on me to be something I’m incapable of being. You accept me exactly how I am.","author":"Colleen Hoover","tags":["contemporary-romance","new-adult","romance"],"id":3453,"author_id":"Colleen+Hoover"},{"text":"At this very moment with my girl in my arms, I feel like there’s nothing I can’t do for her, for us. — Duke.","author":"Stephanie Witter","tags":["college","college-romance","contemporary","contemporary-romance","duke-ashdown","fix-up","new-adult","patch-up-series","romance"],"id":3703,"author_id":"Stephanie+Witter"},{"text":"That's enough!' Holly scrambled out of her seat, too. 'My three-year-old behaves better than all of you.' She looked down at LJ, who was trying to stuff a fry up his nostril. 'And that's not saying a whole lot.","author":"Nicole Williams","tags":["clash","crash-series","humour","new-adult","nicole-williams"],"id":3983,"author_id":"Nicole+Williams"},{"text":"This song is for my Molly, who is the best fucking thing that´s ever happened to me. Also, for those suicidal idiots sending her fan mail asking her to run away with them, I will hunt you down and rip off you nuts.","author":"Nalini Singh","tags":["declaration-of-love","humor","new-adult","romance","schoolboy-choir","zachary-fox"],"id":6236,"author_id":"Nalini+Singh"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":585,"pages":59,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}