{"quotes":[{"text":"Grandpa would go for strolls alone through the pastures where meadowlarks and grasshoppers flew like broken-winged birds, where rabbits constructed their havens, and where thick-coated coyotes and red-tailed foxes sniffed and searched them out.","author":"James Russell Lingerfelt","tags":["romance-book","romance-love","romance-love-heartache","romance-novels","romance-and-sayings"],"id":40714,"author_id":"James+Russell+Lingerfelt"},{"text":"He’s a lovely guy, but there’s no spark between us whatsoever. It just goes to show, that even with all their fancy assessment tools, the government can’t legislate for chemistry.","author":"Siobhan Davis","tags":["dystopian","dystopian-romance","fantasy-young-adult","romance","romance-love-heartache","sci-fi","ya"],"id":44185,"author_id":"Siobhan+Davis"},{"text":"Every cell in my body was telling me that he was my happily ever after.","author":"C.J. English","tags":["divorce","fairytale-love","fairytales-romance","forever-love","happiness","inspirational-love","love-at-first-sight","love-and-saying","marriage","relationships-love","romance-book","romance-love-heartache","romance","true-love"],"id":53088,"author_id":"C.J.+English"},{"text":"Don't fall for the ones who say, I am always yours. They are liars, unfortunately humans too.","author":"Rushabh Patel","tags":["love-hurts","meaningful","practicality","reality","romance-love-heartache","sad","sad-but-true","sadness"],"id":62381,"author_id":"Rushabh+Patel"},{"text":"Rest in peace? Please, God, no. Haunt me, Sofia. You said you'd haunt me.","author":"Helen Maryles Shankman","tags":["grief","paranormal-romance","romance-love-heartache","sad","vampire"],"id":68387,"author_id":"Helen+Maryles+Shankman"},{"text":"I wanted the fairytale.","author":"C.J. English","tags":["divorce","forever-love","love-at-first-sight","love","love-story","lovers","marriage","memoir","relationships-love","romance","romance-book","romance-love-heartache","romance","soulmates-love","true-love","true-story"],"id":79608,"author_id":"C.J.+English"},{"text":"History is about ordinary people living their ordinary lives, just as we do today, while all around the world is changing. It makes heroes out of some people and victims out of others.","author":"Vicky Adin","tags":["family-life","historical-fiction","life","romance-love-heartache"],"id":90531,"author_id":"Vicky+Adin"},{"text":"As a child, crisp spring afternoons were spent wading along Reedy Creek just beyond the field. Then came the heavy breeze in the autumn, pushing off the almond, auburn, sugar-yellow and apple-red leaves into the creek, providing rafts for dragonflies. In winter, the snow upon the wood became an eerie deep, and the occasional gliding of an owl would be spotted from our bedroom. Then, to spend an afternoon walking in a snowy wood and find a scarlet red cardinal perched on a white limb, you would think God arranged that picture just for you.","author":"James Russell Lingerfelt","tags":["romance","romance-book","romance-love","romance-love-heartache","romance-novels","romance-and-sayings"],"id":104301,"author_id":"James+Russell+Lingerfelt"},{"text":"He had always prided himself on his ability to bargain, to bluff, to contain his ever-aching heart within the folds of his robes where no one could see his pain and his shame. Unconsciously, he reached up and fisted the little black pearl in his fingers, searching for words, praying to the Almighty for the words that would let him have her. But they would not come.They were not needed, when the truth was in his eyes.","author":"V.S. Carnes","tags":["love","romance","romance-love-heartache"],"id":109410,"author_id":"V.S.+Carnes"},{"text":"She shook her head, and we parted, kissing, as the first beams from the sun burst forth behind us. When I returned to my bedroom, the scent of her hair remained on my pillow. For the first time in my life, at the age of twenty-five, I was in love.","author":"James Russell Lingerfelt","tags":["romance","romance-book","romance-love","romance-love-heartache","romance-novels","romance-and-sayings"],"id":114387,"author_id":"James+Russell+Lingerfelt"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":37,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}