{"author":"Heather Heffner","author_id":"Heather+Heffner","total_quotes":15,"quotes":[{"text":"I want to be humbled. I want to meet people more messed up than I am. I want to get lost and come out the other end having no idea who I am.","author":"Heather Heffner","tags":["adventure","inspirational"],"id":13316,"author_id":"Heather+Heffner"},{"text":"In a world of fog and gray, the youth is a shining being dressed in dark violet, his golden-flecked hair smoothed back from his bronzed temples. He resembles a human, but no man I have ever seen holds himself like a king, like a gleaming statue chiseled from topaz.I swallow. I am standing before a demon, the most beautiful being I have ever seen, and I can’t run. I can only stand in the hushed glade and stare, snowflakes falling in the space between us.","author":"Heather Heffner","tags":["alien","demon","encounter","hell"],"id":13342,"author_id":"Heather+Heffner"},{"text":"Behind lay loneliness and delusions. Ahead lay answers, and yes, Riley. So bent double beneath my load, but naked no longer, I followed the two demons deeper into Hell.","author":"Heather Heffner","tags":["adventure-fantasy","commitment","hell","journey"],"id":28859,"author_id":"Heather+Heffner"},{"text":"There is a rule in Hell: Don’t trust anyone who takes time out of their day to help you.","author":"Heather Heffner","tags":["demon","hell","humor"],"id":88675,"author_id":"Heather+Heffner"},{"text":"I’d like to sit there,” I said softly to the girl sitting in front of the other mirror. She scampered. I took over her abandoned make-up and painted my face. Red cheeks, to attract hungry vampyre glances. Black liquid eyeliner and mascara, to draw attention away from my bitter eyes. My silky-thin, raven hair, undone in waves over my bare shoulders. The magenta shade of apple gloss on my lips, to make them plump and inviting. Finally, a strapless golden dress that hugged my hips and not much lower. I stood up, feeling the cold air slide down the bare skin of my back like fingers, and panicked. I couldn’t wear something like this! Not without a cardigan! A light dress jacket, at least!I took a gulp of Amrit’s wine and detached myself from the fretting child in my head. Then I strode from the sleeping chambers.","author":"Heather Heffner","tags":["beauty","determination","fighting","glamor","war"],"id":117720,"author_id":"Heather+Heffner"},{"text":"It felt as if I’d been teleported to the dark side of the moon, forced to gaze out at the stars and wonder which one I’d come from.","author":"Heather Heffner","tags":["imagery","loneliness"],"id":131778,"author_id":"Heather+Heffner"},{"text":"Clinging to the rags I had left, I gazed out upon the full breadth of the Furnace and shook at what I saw.The world had been wiped clean of all trace of humanity. Sharp sandstone peaks protruded into the gray sky like a humped backbone, spilling into vast seas of sand on either side. Boulders and driftwood, the castaways of some bygone mountain, cast the only disruption upon the land. And I realized—no sun crossed the sky; there was only constant, lingering grayness.","author":"Heather Heffner","tags":["hell","hopeless","scenery"],"id":146249,"author_id":"Heather+Heffner"},{"text":"The lanterns filled the sky, pulsing with the harmonious light of fireflies, and a great host of ghosts departed from the earth to join them. The higher they rose into the zenith of the heavens, the further night was chased back, until a great and radiant being resumed its throne in the sky.","author":"Heather Heffner","tags":["adventure","fantasy","ghosts","lanterns"],"id":153591,"author_id":"Heather+Heffner"},{"text":"–We are all dying– she told me. –Even something of the immortal will die–“What?”–Meaning–.","author":"Heather Heffner","tags":["immortal","nostalgia","sadness"],"id":162104,"author_id":"Heather+Heffner"},{"text":"We’re only five years apart,” I said defiantly. “If you look at some of those dysfunctional vampyre relationships, we’re near normal.","author":"Heather Heffner","tags":["humor","romance","vampire"],"id":176065,"author_id":"Heather+Heffner"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":15,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}