{"quotes":[{"text":"I used to think that once we started going out, Derek would change. When I admitted that to Tori, she nearly laughed herself into an aneurysm and gave me a lecture on the stupidity of expecting to change a guy. Maybe I didn’t have her dating experience, but I knew you didn’t go out with someone because you thought you’d change him. That wasn’t what I’d meant. I liked Derek the way he was. I’d just hoped getting closer would mean landing on the sharp side of his tongue less often.","author":"Kelley Armstrong","tags":["change","chloe","dating","derek","tori"],"id":61897,"author_id":"Kelley+Armstrong"},{"text":"Hair is gray and the firers are burning. So many dreams on the shelf. You say I wanted you to be proud of me. I always wanted that myself.","author":"Tori Amos","tags":["amos","music","pop","pride","songs","tori","winter"],"id":62549,"author_id":"Tori+Amos"},{"text":"You guys are weird,' Tori said.Simon sat on the crate beside me. 'That's right. We are totally weird and completely uncool. Your popularity is plummeting just by being near us.","author":"Kelley Armstrong","tags":["funny","simon","tori","weird"],"id":138201,"author_id":"Kelley+Armstrong"},{"text":"A hand touched my shoulder, shaking me. I was back on the bus. It was dark and warm and I just wanted to sleep, but Chloe kept shaking my sho.","author":"Kelley Armstrong","tags":["bus","changing","chloe","derek","sleep","told","tori"],"id":223735,"author_id":"Kelley+Armstrong"},{"text":"My fourteen-year-old sister Lara is a brat. Unfortunately, no one sees it but me. To everyone else, she’s adorable. She’s tiny and blonde and sweet and as helpless as a kitten. Chloe reminded me of Lara, at first. The difference, as I discovered, is that Chloe really is as sweet as she seems and she isn’t as helpless as she looks.","author":"Kelley Armstrong","tags":["chloe","helpless","lara","sweet","tori"],"id":230786,"author_id":"Kelley+Armstrong"},{"text":"I don't know how to be anything but pretend,' I replied, and it ached in me how true that really was. 'But if I could be real, I'd be real for you.","author":"R.J. Anderson","tags":["feelings","friendship","love","milo","niki","quicksilver","tori"],"id":313337,"author_id":"R.J.+Anderson"},{"text":"Chloe. Always Chloe with him and his brother. I know I sound like a whiny brat when I complain, but I think I have a good reason. I’d just discovered that I was a witch and my mother was a bitch—the murderous kind. I was now on the run with three kids who didn’t want me along.No matter how hard I tried to keep up and help out, the guys only cared about Chloe. If I ran in front of this bus to push her to safety, they’d race to her side to see if she was okay. Probably give me crap for bruising her when I shoved her out of the way.","author":"Kelley Armstrong","tags":["care","chloe","complain","derek","simon","tori"],"id":453395,"author_id":"Kelley+Armstrong"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":7,"pages":1}}