{"quotes":[{"text":"You know that moment when you hug somebody, when your heart feels warm and high in your chest and tingly? When you feel just for a second like a baby in a womb... That nothing matters? That's how I want you to feel. That's what a girlfriend should do, I think.","author":"Jake Vander-Ark","tags":["castle","hug","paranormal-romance","puppy-love","rooftop","the-perfect-girl"],"id":80124,"author_id":"Jake+Vander-Ark"},{"text":"Judge that boy if you must; for debauchery, for objectifying innocence... But before you finalize your verdict, oh innocent reader, I beg you to scan again that last stanza. What you and I overlooked in our cloud of perversion and nasty objectification was the unrestrained joy of a little girl playing dress-up for the very first time.","author":"Jake Vander-Ark","tags":["beauty","coming-of-age","judge","narrator","perfection","puppy-love"],"id":136756,"author_id":"Jake+Vander-Ark"},{"text":"Every time I think about that girl, my mind commits a sin.","author":"Jake Vander-Ark","tags":["catholic","coming-of-age","perfection","puppy-love"],"id":137370,"author_id":"Jake+Vander-Ark"},{"text":"Puppies are a reflection of unconditional love, entrusted to us like precious seeds. We water them with praise, patience, and love, and watch them grow into full bloom.","author":"Leila Grandemange","tags":["puppy-love","raising-pups","unconditional-love","unconditional-love"],"id":177967,"author_id":"Leila+Grandemange"},{"text":"She had a woman’s swagger at twelve-and-a-half. Hair: strawberry-blonde, and I vaguely recall a daisy in the crook of her ear. She was an inch taller than me, two with the ponytail; smooth cheeks and darling brown eyes that marbled in luscious contrast with her magnolia skin; cream, melting to peach, melting to pink. She beamed like a cherub without the baby fat; a tender neck; pristine lips that would never part for a dirty word. Her body--of no interest to me at the time--was wrapped from neck to toes with home-made footie pajamas, the kind they make for toddlers, but I didn’t laugh; the girl filled that silly one-piece ensemble as if it were couture.","author":"Jake Vander-Ark","tags":["coming-of-age","paranormal","perfect-girl","puppy-love","singing"],"id":201003,"author_id":"Jake+Vander-Ark"},{"text":"Sometimes, he gets on my nerves;At other times, I burn the ladder.","author":"Sanhita Baruah","tags":["anger","angry","build bridges","burn","burn bridges","climb","frustrated","frustration","handle-anger","handle-people","handle-with-care","ignore-others","infatuation","irritated","irritation","ladder","life","love","make-love","manage-people-up","nerves","on-and-off","people","puppy-love","relationship","relationships","someday","sometimes"],"id":208315,"author_id":"Sanhita+Baruah"},{"text":"Well, good afternoon, sunshine. How are you feeling?'Like something the cat dragged in, then dragged back outside to leave in the rain, and mud, then the lightning hit it, and burned it, and the cat came back to tear it into pieces, before burying it.","author":"Kimberly Montague","tags":["aleaxndra","bastard","betrayal","brother","car","cars","cheating","hate","hatred","kid-sister","love","puppy-love","race","racing","tv"],"id":245638,"author_id":"Kimberly+Montague"},{"text":"But it’d be nice to have someone who cared about me, someone I could talk toabout anything, someone who’d tell me I was really special.","author":"Margaret Peterson Haddix","tags":["caring","loving","puppy-love","teens","young-love"],"id":255495,"author_id":"Margaret+Peterson+Haddix"},{"text":"He’d lapped at her ankles like a lovesick pup, and she’d been exactly what she was now, a woman born too beautiful and too rich to worry about a small thing like integrity.","author":"Susan Elizabeth Phillips","tags":["beautiful","integrity","lovesick","puppy-love","rich"],"id":287415,"author_id":"Susan+Elizabeth+Phillips"},{"text":"To live for the hope of something isn’t really living at all, and so, like a child putting away its toys and picking up a tool, he marched to Lyca’s bathroom, to shower off the stench of failure, soap up the death of hope, then wash away the ashes of his love for Daphne.","author":"Mark A. Rayner","tags":["ash","ashes","child","crush","death","fail","failure","hope","hopeless","hopelessness","hopes","live","live-life","living","living-life","love","lovers","lust","luv","puppy-love","shower","showers","stench","tool","tools","toy","toys","wash","wash-away"],"id":293504,"author_id":"Mark+A.+Rayner"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":16,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}