{"quotes":[{"text":"It hasn't been just a weekend for me, Wilson. I've wanted you for so long. I fought off the thoughts every day, exhausting every option to keep you off my mind; I can't do it anymore. I want you right here.","author":"Gretchen de la O","tags":["love","max","wilson","you","young-adult-romance","young-love"],"id":1436,"author_id":"Gretchen+de+la+O"},{"text":"Her heart was telling her to trust him, but it wouldn’t be the first time that that foolish muscle, there in the middle of her chest, had betrayed her.","author":"Mirella Muffarotto","tags":["2014","coming-of-age","coming-of-age-love-story","destiny","epic-love","fate","fiction","love","love-and-romance","love-hurts","love-stories","love-triangles","novel","romance","romeo-and-juliet","sports-themed-ya-na","star-crossed-lovers","teen","teen-drama","teen-romance","teenage-love","ya","young-adult","young-adult-contemporary","young-adult-fiction","young-adult-novels","young-adult-romance","young-adult-series","young-love"],"id":10597,"author_id":"Mirella+Muffarotto"},{"text":"But seventeen is an inconvenient time to be in love.","author":"Gayle Forman","tags":["love","teen","teen-romance","truth","young-love"],"id":14273,"author_id":"Gayle+Forman"},{"text":"He reflects on all the times he thought she wasn’t sure of her feelings for him, when perhaps she might’ve been taking a leisurely stroll across Elijah’s heart, leaving footprints behind that he’d never seen.","author":"Christy A. Campbell","tags":["depression","fantasy-fiction","fantasy-romance","fantasy-young-adult","first-love","ghosts","love-story","mystery","mystery-suspense","paranormal-romance","romance","teen","teen-fantasy","teens","young-adult-fantasy","young-adult-fiction","young-adult-novels","young-adult-romance","young-love"],"id":18978,"author_id":"Christy+A.+Campbell"},{"text":"So the first time she and Leo combusted, she'd practically been poised for the breakup. In some inexplicable way, she'd been looking forward to it and all its attendant drama, because wasn't there something nearly lovely–when you were young enough–about guts churning and tear ducts being put to glorious overuse? She recognized the undeniable satisfaction of the first emotional fissure because an unraveling was still something grown-up and, therefore, life affirming. See? The broken heart signalled. I loved enough to lose; I felt enough to weep. Because when you were young enough, the stakes of love were so very small, nearly insignificant. How tragic could a breakup be when it was part of the fabric of expectation from the beginning? The hackneyed fights, the late-night phone calls, the indignant recounting for friends over multiple drinks and in earshot of an appropriately flirtatious bartender–it was theatre for a certain type of person . . . Until it wasn't.","author":"Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney","tags":["breakup","love","relationships","young-love"],"id":19285,"author_id":"Cynthia+D%27Aprix+Sweeney"},{"text":"When did you first fall in love?'I think, I first fell in lovewhen I was in fifth gradewith this boy who kept his glass ruler in the sunlight and made rainbows on my desk with it.","author":"Saiber","tags":["crush","cute","cute-moments","fifth-grade","first-crush","first-love","free-verse-poetry","humor","innocence","love","love-poem","love","love-and-saying","memories","rainbows","relationship","saiber","sunlight","young-love"],"id":21657,"author_id":"Saiber"},{"text":"Honour and I would have to create our world, live by our own rules. My family wasn't ready for her just yet. I didn't know if they ever would be.","author":"Ruth Ahmed","tags":["family","family-dynamics","first-love","interracial-couple","interracial-relationship","love","young-love"],"id":26803,"author_id":"Ruth+Ahmed"},{"text":"I wanted to protect her, and, if I couldn’t do that, I’d at least be there for her. (Eric).","author":"Shannon A. Thompson","tags":["fiction","lovers","paranormal-romance","protection","trilogy","young-adult","young-love"],"id":31473,"author_id":"Shannon+A.+Thompson"},{"text":"That's one of the first things that comes out of young people's mouths when they're in love. FOREVER. And that's cool, it's all good-until you get old enough to realize what forever is.","author":"Ice-T","tags":["love","relationships","young-love"],"id":31493,"author_id":"Ice-T"},{"text":"All I do when we're apart is think about you, and all I when we're together is panic. Because every second feels so important. And because I'm so out of control, I can't help myself. I'm not even mine anymore, I'm yours, and what if you decide that you don't want me? How could you want me like I want you?'He was quiet. He wanted everything she'd just said to be the last thing he heard. He wanted to fall asleep with 'I want you' in his ears. 'God,' she said. 'I told you I shouldn't talk. I didn't even answer your question.","author":"Rainbow Rowell","tags":["love","young-adult","young-adult-fiction","young-adult-romance","young-love","young-lovers"],"id":33762,"author_id":"Rainbow+Rowell"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":156,"pages":16,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}