{"quotes":[{"text":"Vampires used to be the Dracula types, but in the last ten years most of them have become weak, brooding androgynes that only go after teenagers. A friend of mine took the opportunity to rid his whole city of them after the forth Mormon Vamps book hit and the sparkle meme was at its strongest.'So does that make Ms. Mormon Sparkle Vamp a hero?'Of a sort. Before they started to sparkle, there were a lot of vamps who were tortured antiheroes, thanks to Rice and Whedon.'Ree grimaced. 'Do you know if she was clued in?'Eastwood shrugged. 'She's very secretive, no one in the Underground has been able to say for sure. It's all rumor. My guess is she lost someone to a vampire and decided the greatest revenge she could inflict was to turn them into a laughing stock.","author":"Michael R. Underwood","tags":["geek","twilight-saga","vampires"],"id":27290,"author_id":"Michael+R.+Underwood"},{"text":"You seem more...Optimistic than usual,' I observed. 'I haven't seen you like this before.'Isn't it supposed to be like this?' He smiled. 'The glory of first love, and all that. It's incredible, isn't it, the difference between reading about something, seeing it in pictures, and experiencing it?","author":"Stephenie Meyer","tags":["cute","edward-cullen","falling-in-love","love","quote","romantic","twilight","twilight-saga"],"id":37224,"author_id":"Stephenie+Meyer"},{"text":"Take control. You are a strong, independent woman.","author":"Bella Swan","tags":["bella-swan","feminism","isabella-swan","twilight-film","twilight-saga"],"id":68769,"author_id":"Bella+Swan"},{"text":"Try not to trip,' she added. 'We don't have time for a concussion today.'I groaned. That would be just like me - ruin everything, destroy the world, in a moment of klutziness.","author":"Stephenie Meyer","tags":["alice-cullen","bella-swan","funny","new-moon","twilight-saga"],"id":71385,"author_id":"Stephenie+Meyer"},{"text":"I'll be the first to admit that I have no experience with relationships. But it just seems logical…a man and woman have to be somewhat equal…as in, one of them can't always be swooping in and saving the other one. They have to save each other equally.","author":"Stephanie Meyer","tags":["bella","equality","love","twilight","twilight-saga"],"id":86390,"author_id":"Stephanie+Meyer"},{"text":"Just you wait till I’m a vampire! I’m not going to be sitting on the sidelines next time.","author":"Stephenie Meyer","tags":["twilight-saga","vampire"],"id":102478,"author_id":"Stephenie+Meyer"},{"text":"Repeat one word of what I just said and I'll cheerfully beat you to death, Mike.","author":"Stephenie Meyer","tags":["bella-swan","mike-newton","twilight-saga","violence"],"id":177387,"author_id":"Stephenie+Meyer"},{"text":"Look after my heart - I've left it with you.","author":"Stephenie Meyer","tags":["bella","edward","love","twilight-saga"],"id":184418,"author_id":"Stephenie+Meyer"},{"text":"There was no reason for Bella Swan to cross paths with me. She would be avoided like the plague she was.","author":"Stephenie Meyer","tags":["bella-swan","edward-cullen","love","love-story","midnight-sun","twilight-saga"],"id":203748,"author_id":"Stephenie+Meyer"},{"text":"Then you have this other phenomena of the paranormal romance. It's all the benefits of being a vampire without the sacrifices. By the gods, Meyer's vampires walk around sparkling in the daylight and some are vegetarians. But this phenomenon is also tied to a lot of our communal fears. Fear of aging. Fear of fading youth. Fear of loneliness. But whereas the classic motifs are more concerned with confronting and overcoming our fears, the fears of the paranormal romance genre become twisted fantasies of denial. The idea of staying young, attractive and powerful for eternity feeds into the modern self-absorbed ethos.","author":"Julie Ann Dawson","tags":["paranormal-romance","twilight-saga","vampires"],"id":212366,"author_id":"Julie+Ann+Dawson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":16,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}