{"quotes":[{"text":"Everyone knows: people who cross boarders do so for a reason.","author":"M.D. Elster","tags":["alice","alice-in-wonderland","crossing-borders","dark-fantasy","everyone-knows","fairy-tale-retellings","fantasy","insane","insanity","leaving","madness","people","reason","retelling","retellings"],"id":8239,"author_id":"M.D.+Elster"},{"text":"If I were to lock you up in a dungeon, I guarantee you would not be bored.","author":"Priya Ardis","tags":["arthurian","chick-lit","coming-of-age","e-books","ebooks","fairy-tales","fantasy","heroic-fantasy","mythology","paranormal","paranormal-romance","retellings","sword-and-sworcery","urban-fantasy","wizards","ya-paranormal","ya-romance","young-adult","young-adult-fantasy"],"id":13525,"author_id":"Priya+Ardis"},{"text":"Almost immediately, I found the red door into the library. I opened it idly- and the breath stopped in my throat. It was the same room I remembered: the shelves, the lion-footed table, the white bass-relief of Clio. But now, tendrils of dark green ivy grew between the shelves, reaching toward the books as if they were hungry to read. White mist flowed along the floor, rippling and tumbling as if blown by wind. Across the ceiling wove a network of icy ropes like tree roots. They dripped- not little droplets like the ice melting off a tree but grape-sized drops of water, like giant tears, that splashed on the table, plopped to the floor.","author":"Rosamund Hodge","tags":["beauty-and-the-beast","greek-mythology","retellings","ya"],"id":13813,"author_id":"Rosamund+Hodge"},{"text":"Vane grabbed me. “DuLac, let’s chat.” British-speak for “Stand still while I yell at you.","author":"Priya Ardis","tags":["action","adventure","arthurian","arthurian-collection","camelot","coming-of-age","fairy-tales","fantasy","fiction","greek-mythology","history","love","magic","merlin","mermaid","mythology","novel","paranormal","paranormal-romance","poseidon","retellings","romance","sea-creatures","sword","sword-and-sorcery","teen","time-travel","urban-fantasy","wizards","women-s-fiction","ya","ya-fantasy","ya-paranormal","ya-romance","young-adult"],"id":14350,"author_id":"Priya+Ardis"},{"text":"Some stories aren't meant to be told. The more they get told, the more they change from what they once were, worn down and smooth like pieces of sea glass too beautiful to have ever been broken bottles.","author":"Caren Gussoff","tags":["pretty-prose","retellings","stories","swooning-over-sentences"],"id":28230,"author_id":"Caren+Gussoff"},{"text":"OMG. He's a gift shop, a lamb kebab with mint,/a solar panel poetry machine with biceps. He's the path/through the dark woods, the light on the page, a postcard/from the castle and a one-way ticket there. He's the most/astounding arrangement of molecules ever!/Just look at those tights! An honest-to-God prince at last.","author":"Ron Koertge","tags":["fairy-tales","humor","infatuation","retellings"],"id":37017,"author_id":"Ron+Koertge"},{"text":"I don’t know how much longer I can keep pretending. How long I can contain the storm I am becoming; the emotions pushed aside that grow and strengthen, clamoring for their release. I can resist only so much. One day I won’t be able to fake a smile or weave a lie. One day I am going to explode.","author":"Tabi Card","tags":["emotions","fairy-tale","internal-struggle","power","retellings"],"id":41232,"author_id":"Tabi+Card"},{"text":"And, they would still be alive today...If they hadn't died, that is.","author":"Rotraut Susanne Berner","tags":["fairy-tales","graphic-novels","grimm","retellings"],"id":48893,"author_id":"Rotraut+Susanne+Berner"},{"text":"The sound of the gunshot in that narrow tunnel was like being inside a thunderbolt. I held my eyes closed, my fingers still clinging to the barrel.'Ow!' the Mad Hatter shouted a distance ahead. 'That thing is loud!'I opened my eyes. Nine of Spades lay in front of me. He didn't move.'Heh. You've got quite a roar, little lion. I've never seen a lion's roar do that, but I've never seen an elephant fit in a tin can either.","author":"DAVID D HAMMONS","tags":["fantasy","humor","retellings","ya"],"id":63400,"author_id":"DAVID+D+HAMMONS"},{"text":"The combination of razor-sharp wit (completely real) and his credentials (completely fake) had won them over in the end.","author":"Priya Ardis","tags":["arthurian","chick-lit","coming-of-age","e-books","ebooks","fairy-tales","fantasy","heroic-fantasy","mythology","paranormal","paranormal-romance","retellings","sword-and-sworcery","urban-fantasy","wizards","ya-paranormal","ya-romance","young-adult","young-adult-fantasy"],"id":74480,"author_id":"Priya+Ardis"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":46,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}