{"quotes":[{"text":". “Love doesn’t please itself by seeking revenge. Love sacrifices itself for the good of others.","author":"Kerrelyn Sparks","tags":["at","be","heart","love","my","stake","still","vampire"],"id":115353,"author_id":"Kerrelyn+Sparks"},{"text":"Stop fighting me!' he said, trying to pull on the arm he held.He was in a precarious position himself, straddling the rail as he tried to lean over far enough to get me and actually hold onto me.“Let go of me!” I yelled back.But he was too strong and managed to haul most of me over the rail, enough so that I wasn’t in total danger of falling again.See, here’s the thing. In that moment before I let go, I really had been contemplating my death. I’d come to terms with it and accepted it. I also, however, had known Dimitri might do something exactly like this. He was just that fast and that good. That was why I was holding my stake in the hand that was dangling free.I looked him in the eye. 'I will always love you.'Then I plunged the stake into his chest.It wasn’t as precise a blow as I would have liked, not with the skilled way he was dodging. I struggled to get the stake in deep enough to his heart, unsure if I could do it from this angle. Then, his struggles stopped. His eyes stared at me, stunned, and his lips parted, almost into a smile, albeit a grisly and pained one.'That’s what I was supposed to say. . .” he gasped out.Those were his last words.","author":"Richelle Mead","tags":["blood","bridge","death","dhampir","dimitri","love","magic","promise","rose","stake","strigoi"],"id":124409,"author_id":"Richelle+Mead"},{"text":"In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age.","author":"Thomas Gold","tags":["age","brave","bravery","burned","heresy","heretic","hypothesis","intolerance","science","stake","timid","virtue"],"id":311119,"author_id":"Thomas+Gold"},{"text":"Seriously, I ‘ve got to know if I need to protect you from people running with pencils.' ~ Laney.","author":"Joann I. Martin Sowles","tags":["humor","stake","vampire"],"id":477493,"author_id":"Joann+I.+Martin+Sowles"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":4,"pages":1}}