{"quotes":[{"text":"Even though Sean still held my head down I was the only one who thought to ask'Who's driving the boat?' Over the motor I heard girls screaming at us the instant before we crashed.","author":"Jennifer Echols","tags":["adam","adam-vader","boys-next-door","comedy","echols","endless-summer","jennifer","jennifer-echols","lori","lori-mcgillicuddy","romantic","summer","the-boys-next-door"],"id":2908,"author_id":"Jennifer+Echols"},{"text":"Absolutely. No more pretending!","author":"Dana Burkey","tags":["contemporary-romance","kiss","love","na","novella","pretending","romance","summer","truth","ya"],"id":3792,"author_id":"Dana+Burkey"},{"text":"Summer fell upon Paris, with everyone still intently following his own subterranean course of passion or habit and looking up like a startled creature of the night at the blazing June sun. Now, all of a sudden, there was an impelling necessity to go away, to give a continuation or a meaning to the winter that had just gone by.","author":"Françoise Sagan","tags":["paris","summer","winter"],"id":3962,"author_id":"Fran%C3%A7oise+Sagan"},{"text":"Every summer there are a number of nights, not many, but a number, when everything is perfect. The light, the warmth, the smells, the mist, the birdsong – the moths. Who can sleep? Who wants to?","author":"Fredrik Sjöberg","tags":["island-landscape","island-summer","natural-world","nature","summer","swedish-island","swedish-summer"],"id":3995,"author_id":"Fredrik+Sj%C3%B6berg"},{"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":"With each mile we put behind us, I felt the air grow lighter in my lungs. It was as if the city had been one large pressure cooker, simmering in its own juices. With the top down on the coupe and a stalwart, man-made breeze blowing steadily in my face, I tallied the city's many summertime brutalities: the heat that radiated from the gray asphalt and made the air dance in wavy shimmers; the stagnant ponds in Central Park that turned a milky, putrid, almost phosphorescent green and incubated countless mosquitoes; the blasts of hot dirty air that breathed upward from every subway grate; oh, and how the loud noises pouring from construction sites even somehow seemed to further agitate and heat the air!","author":"Suzanne Rindell","tags":["hot","new-york-city","summer"],"id":6307,"author_id":"Suzanne+Rindell"},{"text":"Now the windows, blinded by the glare of the empty square, had fallen asleep. The balconies declared their emptiness to heaven; the open doorways smelt of coolness and wine.","author":"Bruno Schulz","tags":["august","summer","summer-and-the-city"],"id":7748,"author_id":"Bruno+Schulz"},{"text":"A smaller rocket cut across the sky, trailing smoke. It exploded in a red heart.'Awwwww!' said the crowd.'Upside down,' said Sean.The heart was, indeed, upside down. It grew and grew, upside down, until it's lights trailed and faded.A bigger rocket exploded in bright golden sparks, and then came another red heart.'Upside down,' said all the boys.Three explosions layered on top of one another, gold, blue, pink. Then still another red heart exploded, growing and growing before it faded.'Upside down,' said everyone in the boat but me.My own heart expanded for Adam.I whispered, 'I know what he meant.","author":"Jennifer Echols","tags":["adam","adam-vader","boys-next-door","comedy","echols","endless-summer","jennifer","jennifer-echols","lori","lori-mcgillicuddy","mcgillicuddy","romantic","summer","the-boys-next-door"],"id":8547,"author_id":"Jennifer+Echols"},{"text":"I love how summer just wraps it’s arms around you like a warm blanket.","author":"Kellie Elmore","tags":["life","love","nostalgia","nostalgic","seasons","summer"],"id":8929,"author_id":"Kellie+Elmore"},{"text":"Stay away from her.'Okay.'Keep your hands off her.'I'll try.'He scowled at me.'I will,' I said.","author":"Jennifer Echols","tags":["adam","adam-vader","boys-next-door","comedy","echols","endless-summer","jennifer","jennifer-echols","lori","lori-mcgillicuddy","mcgillicuddy","romantic","summer","the-boys-next-door"],"id":9454,"author_id":"Jennifer+Echols"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":528,"pages":53,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}