{"quotes":[{"text":"I have to believe it’s right to be a warm voice, a companion if I can be, as soon as ever I find a friend.","author":"Betsy Cornwell","tags":["cinderella","companionship","compassion","fairy-tale-retellings","friends","friendship","kindness","love","steampunk","warmth"],"id":3115,"author_id":"Betsy+Cornwell"},{"text":"We're fragile things, Harb. It doesn't look like it but we are. We're here one minute, and just like that, we're gone. The Peacemakers (The Nemesis Engines).","author":"Olivier A. Blanchard","tags":["gratitude","indie","life","olivier-blanchard","steampunk","the-nemesis-engines","the-peacemakers","tne"],"id":7016,"author_id":"Olivier+A.+Blanchard"},{"text":"I'm always homesick for the journey,” I had once written in ink speckled script, adding almost as an afterthought, “...No matter what it may hold.","author":"S.C. Barrus","tags":["adventure","homesick","journey","steampunk","thriller"],"id":10551,"author_id":"S.C.+Barrus"},{"text":"Torque was the greatest thing in the world, as far as Lina was concerned.","author":"Jaleigh Johnson","tags":["adventure","fantasy","favorite-things","feminist","girls-with-tools","middle-grade","middlegrade","science","science-fiction","steampunk","tool","tools"],"id":14769,"author_id":"Jaleigh+Johnson"},{"text":"Living on steam isn't easy.","author":"Jessica Fortunato","tags":["easy","hard","life","living","steam","steampunk"],"id":18063,"author_id":"Jessica+Fortunato"},{"text":"These violators responded only as cowards could. They ran.","author":"Cynthia D. Witherspoon","tags":["paranormal","paranormal-series","steampunk"],"id":39106,"author_id":"Cynthia+D.+Witherspoon"},{"text":"He could sit in the dust and dark of the carriage house and rot for the rest of his life. Clearly that's what he wished to do. It was not my place to get in the way of so profound a destiny.","author":"Kristin Bailey","tags":["comedy","steampunk"],"id":49389,"author_id":"Kristin+Bailey"},{"text":"The machines of this place are failing, and the woman and I are here all alone. The perpetual motion engine, as brilliant and beautiful as it is, is running down—nothing lasts forever. But before this little world falls out of the sky there still might be time enough for redemption. There is still time for me to say the words that I should have had the courage to say at the beginning.There is still time, perhaps, for one more miracle.Hello, Miranda.","author":"Dexter Palmer","tags":["beginning","bittersweet","dexter-palmer","ending","hello","impermanence","miracle","nothing-lasts-forever","perpetual-motion","poignant","redemption","sad","science-fiction","steampunk","the-dream-of-perpetual-motion"],"id":54062,"author_id":"Dexter+Palmer"},{"text":"Junk?” Lina repeated, incredulous. Oh, she wasn’t about to let that pass.","author":"Jaleigh Johnson","tags":["adventure","fantasy","female-hero","female-protagonist","junk","kidlit","middle-grade","sassy-heroine","science-fiction","steampunk"],"id":58823,"author_id":"Jaleigh+Johnson"},{"text":"May your song guide you home.","author":"Sophia Elaine Hanson","tags":["dystopian","music","na","scifi","steampunk","the-vinyl-trilogy","vinyl","ya"],"id":59905,"author_id":"Sophia+Elaine+Hanson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":73,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}