{"quotes":[{"text":"If I weren't so screwed up, I would've sold my soul a long time ago for a handsome man who made me feel pretty or who could at least treat me to a Millionaire's Martini. Instead I lingered over a watered down Sparkling Apple and felt sorry about what I was about to do to the blue-eyed bartender standing in front of me. Although I shouldn’t, after all, I am a bail recovery agent. It's my job to get my skip, no matter the cost.If I weren't so screwed up, I would've sold my soul a long time ago for a handsome man who made me feel pretty or who could at least treat me to a Millionaire's Martini. Instead I lingered over a watered down Sparkling Apple and felt sorry about what I was about to do to the blue-eyed bartender standing in front of me. Although I shouldn't, after all, I am a bail recovery agent. It's my job to get my skip, no matter the cost. Yet, I had been wondering lately. What was this job costing me? Yet, I had been wondering lately. What was this job costing me?","author":"Miranda Parker","tags":["african-american","chicklit","family-drama","mystery-suspense","romantic-suspense","southern-","southern-writers","summer"],"id":4108,"author_id":"Miranda+Parker"},{"text":"Life can surprise you. You want something with every ounce of blood that flows in your veins, and then one day it's yours. Right there before you. Everything. You break out in a cold sweat with the undeniable realization that what you really want is home. Sometimes finding home is a long time coming. A long journey.","author":"Brenda Sutton Rose","tags":["home","life","southern-fiction","southern-writers"],"id":23043,"author_id":"Brenda+Sutton+Rose"},{"text":"The truth had lacerated him to the bone, had punctured his heart, and had ripped through his soul. The truth had slain him and tended to his wounds. The truth had hated him and loved him. The truth had opened his eyes to his own faults.","author":"Brenda Sutton Rose","tags":["georgia-writers","pain","southern-fiction","southern-writers","spiritual","truth"],"id":59400,"author_id":"Brenda+Sutton+Rose"},{"text":"What we have...Is something most folks wait a lifetime for, and only touch for a heartbeat. They let go too quickly, or they're too scared to hold on, or they never see what's right in front of them. But we're going to hold on as tight as we can.' - Jonah Walker.","author":"Molli Moran","tags":["new-adult","romance","southern-writers"],"id":84501,"author_id":"Molli+Moran"},{"text":"{Summertime she speaks of winter, she eats ham, but speaks of beef, got a good man but, flirts with another. She might as well go to hell, cause she ain't gonna be happy in heaven either!}.","author":"Nancy B. Brewer","tags":["historical-fiction","history","humor","romance","southern","southern-women","southern-writers"],"id":89244,"author_id":"Nancy+B.+Brewer"},{"text":"He ascended the mountain in darkness, no lamplight, a world black and silver and blue. The moon lay scattered through the woods in blades, glowing palely, the wind rising now and again to moan through the trees. The trail scrawled ever upward, toward the looming darkness of the mountain's peak. Above it all the sea of night, the strange ornamentation of stars.","author":"Taylor Brown","tags":["fiction","novel","southern-fiction","southern-writers"],"id":101659,"author_id":"Taylor+Brown"},{"text":"I believe that the truth of any subject only comes when all sides of the story are put together.","author":"Alice Walker","tags":["american-history","racism","southern-writers"],"id":113035,"author_id":"Alice+Walker"},{"text":"He takes a draw on a cigarette, blows out a smoky ghost. I reach to catch the phantom in my hands, but it eludes me. I've been trying to catch a ghost for as long as I can remember.","author":"Brenda Sutton Rose","tags":["cigarette-smoke","ghosts","literary","southern-fiction","southern-landscape","southern-writers"],"id":125356,"author_id":"Brenda+Sutton+Rose"},{"text":"Are you aware that Jesus Christ can spell? I get so tired of you spelling every slang and cuss word that crosses your mind, as though you are pulling one over on the Lord.","author":"Brenda Sutton Rose","tags":["humorous","southern-fiction","southern-writers"],"id":130669,"author_id":"Brenda+Sutton+Rose"},{"text":"Perspective and perseverance are carved by time and constructed by wisdom.","author":"A.D. Sams","tags":["ad-sams","perseverance","perseverance","perspective","perspective-on-life","southern-women","southern-writers","strength","time","wisdom","wisdom-inspirational","wisdom"],"id":245402,"author_id":"A.D.+Sams"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":22,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}