{"quotes":[{"text":"You have been missing from me for far too long.","author":"Belle Hale","tags":["ella","eternal","imprint","kahoa","link","love","roman","soul","taylor"],"id":19431,"author_id":"Belle+Hale"},{"text":"I would remember this as one of those moments in life that I can hold onto and smile about, forever.","author":"Belle Hale","tags":["ella","forever","hold","imprint","memories","moments","smile","soul","taylor"],"id":50829,"author_id":"Belle+Hale"},{"text":"He reached over and took Taylor’s hand. She did not pull her hand away.He moved his hand up her arm. She stiffened a little and glanced around, making sure they weren’t seen. Or, maybe, hoping they were.His hand reached her neck. He leaned toward her and pulled her to him.He kissed her.She kissed him back.He kissed her harder. And she slid her hand under his shirt, fingers stroking his bare flesh.Then he pulled away, fast.“Sorry, I . . .” He hesitated, his wallowing brain arguing against a body that was suddenly aflame.Sam stood up very suddenly and walked away.Taylor laughed gaily at his back. “Come see me when you get tired of mooning over the ice princess, Sam.","author":"Michael Grant","tags":["drunken-behaviour","kiss","mistake","sam-temple","taylor","touch"],"id":93266,"author_id":"Michael+Grant"},{"text":"Why are we sneaking out in the night?” Jack repeated.“I already explained,” Sam snapped. “If you don’t listen—”Taylor jumped in to say, “Because otherwise Astrid would find some way to stop him.” She mimicked Astrid’s voice, injecting it with steel and a tense, condescending tone. “Sam. I am the smartest, hottest girl in the world. So do what I tell you. Good boy. Down, boy. Down!”Sam remained silent, walking steadily just a few feet ahead.Taylor continued, “Oh, Sam, if only you could be as smart plus as totally goody-goody as I am. If only you could realize that you will never be good enough to have me, me, wonderful me, Astrid the Blond Genius.”“Sam, can I shoot her now?” Dekka asked. “Or is it too soon?”“Wait until we’re over the ridge,” Sam said. “It’ll muffle the sound.”“Sorry, Dekka,” Taylor said. “I know you don’t like talking about boy-girl things.”“Taylor,” Sam warned.“Yes, Sam?”“You might want to think about how hard it would be to walk if someone were to turn off gravity under your feet every now and then.”“I wonder who would do that?” Dekka said.Suddenly Taylor fell flat on her face.“You tripped me!” Taylor said, more shocked than angry.“Me?” Dekka spread her hands in a completely unconvincing gesture of innocence. “Hey, I’m all the way over here.”“I’m just saying: you can see where that could make a long walk just a lot longer,” Sam said.“You guys are so not fun,” Taylor grumped. She bounced instantaneously to just behind Sam. She grabbed his butt, he yelled, “Hey!” and she bounced away innocently.“To answer your question, Jack,” Sam said, “we are sneaking out at night so that everyone doesn’t know we’re gone and why. They’ll figure it out soon enough, but Edilio will have to have more of his guys on the streets if I’m not there playing the big, bad wolf. More stress for everyone.”“Oh,” Jack said.“The big, bad wolf,” Taylor said. She laughed. “So, when you play that fantasy in your head is Astrid Little Red Riding Hood or one of the Three Little Pigs?”“Dekka,” Sam said.“Hah! Too slow!","author":"Michael Grant","tags":["annoyed","annoying","astrid","astrid-the-genius","dekka","jack","mocking","night","sam-temple","shoot","talking","taylor","trip"],"id":103595,"author_id":"Michael+Grant"},{"text":"And suddenly I know I have to go. But this time without being chased by the Brigadier, without experiencing the kindness of a postman from Yass, and without taking along a Cadet who will change the way I breath for the rest of my life.","author":"Melina Marchetta","tags":["family","jonah","need","taylor"],"id":103666,"author_id":"Melina+Marchetta"},{"text":"Hunter’s dead,” Taylor said without preamble. “It was these . . . These things. They came crawling up out of him and were eating him, oh God, I mean, it was like . . . I mean he was crying and Dekka prayed with him and he tried to fry his own brain just like he did with Harry only I guess it didn’t work, I guess he couldn’t do it, so Sam . . .” She swallowed. “Anyone have some water?”“What about Sam?” Astrid demanded.“He did it for him. Sam. I mean, he . . . Hunter was, you know . . . So Sam.” She pantomimed raising her hands, like Sam, like he would do when using his power.Astrid closed her eyes and crossed herself.“Rest in peace,” Edilio said and crossed himself as well.“Sam burned the boy?” Howard asked. Then, bitterly sarcastic said, “Yeah, you all pray to Jesus. Because Jesus is really providing a lot of help here. Sounds to me like Sam was the one doing what had to be done.","author":"Michael Grant","tags":["astrid-ellison","bugs","burned","dead","dekka","eating","edilio","emotional","howard-bassem","hunter-lefkowitz","killed","parasites","pray","put-down","sam-temple","taylor"],"id":111232,"author_id":"Michael+Grant"},{"text":"Being FEARLESS isn't being 100% Not FEARFUL, it's being terrified but you jump anyway...","author":"Taylor Swift","tags":["fearless","fearlessness","swift","taylor","taylor-swift"],"id":124691,"author_id":"Taylor+Swift"},{"text":"I love when I can reboot people when they are being mean to others...","author":"Richard Paul Evans","tags":["funny","michael-vey","taylor"],"id":176798,"author_id":"Richard+Paul+Evans"},{"text":"I'm only up when you're not downDon't wanna fly if you're still on the ground.","author":"Taylor Swift","tags":["bff","bffl","down","friends","inspirational","taylor","up"],"id":194327,"author_id":"Taylor+Swift"},{"text":"But hope, I can tell you, is an exhausting emotion; perhaps, along with fear, the most exhausting of all. It is like juggling eggs: the hope is the shell, and inside is despair. A single crack and the despair might spill everywhere, stain everything.","author":"Sam Taylor","tags":["amnesiac","despair","hope","sam","taylor","the"],"id":246037,"author_id":"Sam+Taylor"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":25,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}