{"author":"Brenna Yovanoff","author_id":"Brenna+Yovanoff","total_quotes":36,"quotes":[{"text":"You're terribly selfish, you know. I've loved you so long, and it was never dear or precious to you. I might as well have not loved you at all.","author":"Brenna Yovanoff","tags":["love","sad"],"id":2262,"author_id":"Brenna+Yovanoff"},{"text":"Our whole lives, it was like we were always trying so hard to be perfect - for our families and our friends, for each other - when the funny thing was, we didn't have to. In the end, we were better than that.","author":"Brenna Yovanoff","tags":["complex-and-real-person","friends","perfect","perfectionism","self"],"id":4931,"author_id":"Brenna+Yovanoff"},{"text":"Tender,' she said again. 'Tender is kind and gentle. It's also sore, like the skin around an injury.","author":"Brenna Yovanoff","tags":["gentleness","pain","tenderness"],"id":51217,"author_id":"Brenna+Yovanoff"},{"text":"Running is like music. It requires rhythm and focus. It requires dedication. It requires a dogged ability to shut out everything else. The herd is strung out below me, keeping time with the thump and slap of their cross-trainers. I hold the sound in my head and subtract cars, trucks, motorcycles, voices until it’s nothing but a song.","author":"Brenna Yovanoff","tags":["exercise","running"],"id":63205,"author_id":"Brenna+Yovanoff"},{"text":"That was the thing about being bereaved. People were overcome with sympathy. They did things for you without even considering whether or not it was the right thing to do.","author":"Brenna Yovanoff","tags":["brenna-yovanoff","grief","the-space-between"],"id":85154,"author_id":"Brenna+Yovanoff"},{"text":"What kind of people?'The dead kind. The still-walking-around kind. The reeking, stinking, rotting-from-the-inside-out kind. Toothy and grinning, nasty with the dark and the dust of abandoned strip mines. But none of that was the whole truth. They were more than that. - page 135.","author":"Brenna Yovanoff","tags":["paranormal","ya"],"id":110441,"author_id":"Brenna+Yovanoff"},{"text":"I wanted to tell her that I loved her, and not in the complicated way I loved our parents, but in a simple way I never had to think about. I loved her like breathing.","author":"Brenna Yovanoff","tags":["love","siblings","simple-love"],"id":113871,"author_id":"Brenna+Yovanoff"},{"text":"I'm not about love, but in this moment, I wish that I were.","author":"Brenna Yovanoff","tags":["book","demon","love","sad","special"],"id":124291,"author_id":"Brenna+Yovanoff"},{"text":"There was so much about our past that I still didn't understand, and I wasn't one to tell the future. I could only tell the way the world worked. History was a tangled thing, people were resilient, and the one constant law of the world was that it would heal.","author":"Brenna Yovanoff","tags":["healing","history","how-things-work","nature-of-the-world","surviving"],"id":126733,"author_id":"Brenna+Yovanoff"},{"text":"My father's answer was revenge-has always been revenge-and the outcome was just, but not better. Nothing is fixed.","author":"Brenna Yovanoff","tags":["lucifer","revenge"],"id":133871,"author_id":"Brenna+Yovanoff"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":36,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}