{"quotes":[{"text":"I was going to kiss him, and I was going to regret it. But at that moment, I couldn't bring myself to care.","author":"Michelle Hodkin","tags":["couples","kiss","mara-dyer","noah-shaw","ya"],"id":6849,"author_id":"Michelle+Hodkin"},{"text":"Asscrown,' I muttered under my breath as I headed to my next class. I wasn't proud of swearing at a complete stranger, no. But he started it.Noah matched my pace. 'Don't you mean 'assclown'?' He looked amused.'No,' I said, louder this time. 'I mean asscrown. The crown on top of the asshat that covers the asshole of the assclown. The very zenith in the hierarchy of asses,' I said, as though I was reading from a dictionary of modern profanity.'I guess you nailed me then.","author":"Michelle Hodkin","tags":["humour","mara-dyer","noah-shaw"],"id":16810,"author_id":"Michelle+Hodkin"},{"text":"You're supposed to say, 'All I want is your happiness. I'll do whatever it takes, even if it means being without you.''Sorry,' Noah said. 'I'm just not that big of a person.","author":"Michelle Hodkin","tags":["mara-dyer","michelle-hodkin","noah-shaw","romance"],"id":21023,"author_id":"Michelle+Hodkin"},{"text":"For some reason I think of the first time I saw her, kicking the shit out of the vending machine that refused to release her candy. Before that day, every hour of my life had been exactly like the one before it. Relentlessly boring. Painfully monotonous. But then she walked out of my waking nightmare and into my life, a complete mystery from Second One. Her presence was a problem I needed to solve, a problem that finally interested me. And then, somehow, she made me interested in myself. Mara began as a question I needed to answer, but the longer I'd known her, the less I felt I actually knew. She was constantly surprising, infinitely complex. Unknowable. Unpredictable. I have never met anyone more fascinating in my life, and all the time in the world wouldn't be enough to ever know her.","author":"Michelle Hodkin","tags":["knowing","mara-dyer","memory","noah-shaw"],"id":52509,"author_id":"Michelle+Hodkin"},{"text":"The two of us snuggled like quotation marks in his room full of words.","author":"Michelle Hodkin","tags":["mara-dyer","noah-shaw","poetic","words"],"id":63124,"author_id":"Michelle+Hodkin"},{"text":"What would you do if I kissed you right now?'I stared at his beautiful face and his beautiful mouth and I wanted nothing more than to taste it. 'I would kiss you back.","author":"Michelle Hodkin","tags":["beautiful","couples","hot","kiss","love","mara-dyer","noah-shaw","ya"],"id":75356,"author_id":"Michelle+Hodkin"},{"text":"I know what I can do to a girl with a word, a look, a touch. And I want to do them all to her.","author":"Michelle Hodkin","tags":["mara-dyer","noah-shaw","the-retribution-of-mara-dyer","young-adult"],"id":163183,"author_id":"Michelle+Hodkin"},{"text":"You’re so calm,” I said out loud. “It’s like you don’t need it.” Need me, I didn’t say. But I could tell by the way his delinquent smile softened that he knew what I meant.Noah moved forward, toward me, next to me then, the slender muscles in his arms flexing with the movement. “I’m not sure you can appreciate how much I want to lay you out before me and make you scream my name.","author":"Michelle Hodkin","tags":["love-story","mara-dyer","noah-shaw","the-evolution-of-mara-dyer"],"id":173785,"author_id":"Michelle+Hodkin"},{"text":"In my rush, I hadn’t tied my shoelaces. Noah was now tying them for me. He looked up at me through his dark fringe of lashes and smiled. The expression on his face melted me completely. I knew I had the goofiest grin plastered on my lips, and didn’t care. “There,” he said as he finished tying the laces on my left shoe. “Now you won’t fall.”Too late.","author":"Michelle Hodkin","tags":["adorable","couples","love","mara-dyer","noah-shaw","ya"],"id":198175,"author_id":"Michelle+Hodkin"},{"text":"You smell good,' he whispered into my neck. He was warm against me. Instinctively, I arched back into him and smiled.  'Really?' 'Mmm-hmm. Delicious. Like bacon.","author":"Michelle Hodkin","tags":["couples","humor","mara-dyer","noah-shaw","ya"],"id":204085,"author_id":"Michelle+Hodkin"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":18,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}