{"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":"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":"We were both filled with the enthusiasm that comes from being with someone you automatically click with.","author":"Megan Rivers","tags":["megan-rivers","music","new-adult-fiction","new-adult-romance","young-adult-fiction","young-adult-romance-fiction"],"id":3215,"author_id":"Megan+Rivers"},{"text":"In the past year I’ve learned that love can make you do crazy, silly, stupid, ridiculous things. And the fact that one person can make you feel this way and do those things is amazing to me.","author":"Allie Everhart","tags":["new-adult-romance","romance","romance-love"],"id":4663,"author_id":"Allie+Everhart"},{"text":"Women, the most beautiful things in the world,” answers the model. As if it’s the only thing worth painting, as if everyone should aspire to it. Normally coming from a guy that answer would sound so incredibly skeezy—a greasy, obvious pick-up line. But something about this guy’s earnest tone tells me he means it.' -from Model Position by Kitsy Clare.","author":"Kitsy Clare","tags":["artist","grad-school","new-adult-romance","romance"],"id":6702,"author_id":"Kitsy+Clare"},{"text":"Our eyes met and locked as the song came to a halt, followed by a screaming conclusion from the crowd, girls around us pressing me into the stage, forcing all the air out of my lungs, but I’d forgotten about doing anything so basic as breathing.","author":"Emme Rollins","tags":["concert","concerts","crowd","crowded","new-adult","new-adult-romance","rock-and-roll","rock-me","rock-music","rock-star","rockstar","rockstars"],"id":8689,"author_id":"Emme+Rollins"},{"text":"I promise to keep my hands to myself. I'm too exhausted to make a move on you.","author":"Faith Sullivan","tags":["contemporary-romance","new-adult","new-adult-contemporary-romance","new-adult-fiction","new-adult-lit","new-adult-romance"],"id":14136,"author_id":"Faith+Sullivan"},{"text":"My shooting star wish would truthfully be to never leave your side. To be the one who will be there to encourage you in all your hopes and dreams. Be there if you fail so I can pick you back up and never let anything bad happen to you again.","author":"Christina Marie Morales","tags":["ghost","love","new-adult-romance","wishes"],"id":14460,"author_id":"Christina+Marie+Morales"},{"text":"POPPY: 25 December 2016 POPPY (standing up to Paul): You see family life as respecting boundaries and saying what makes people happy and treating everyone like they’re treasured but only in a sanitized way. I see family life as invading everyone’s privacy and saying whatever I feel and treating everyone as they’re treasured because they’re my family and thus special as compared to the rest of the world. I see a good family as loud and frantic and intrusive...He fits me, and I don’t want to change. Not for you or anyone. I’m deeply in love with myself, and Emmett respects that...“I’m not her (Christine). I don’t have a dream to fix animal boo-boos. Loving Emmett and living close to my family are the only dreams I see as worth having.","author":"Bijou Hunter","tags":["family","mc-romance","new-adult-romance","self-acceptance"],"id":16730,"author_id":"Bijou+Hunter"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":191,"pages":20,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}