{"author":"M.R. Carey","author_id":"M.R.+Carey","total_quotes":19,"quotes":[{"text":"It all comes together inside her, and she can’t begin to explain. “It’s just a pattern,” she says, feeling bad because it’s a lie. She’s lying to Miss Justineau, who she loves more than anyone in the world. And of course the other part of the feeling, that’s even harder to say, is that they’re each other’s home now. They have to be.","author":"M.R. Carey","tags":["home","love"],"id":9637,"author_id":"M.R.+Carey"},{"text":"Even the air seems to have a smell - earthy and rich and complicated, made out of things living nd things dying and things long dead. The smell of the world where nothing stops moving, nothing stays the same.","author":"M.R. Carey","tags":["air","change","earth","life","senses","smell"],"id":17363,"author_id":"M.R.+Carey"},{"text":"And one of the reasons why he likes her is because she’s so different from him. She’s as big as four-fifths of five-eighths of fuck all, but she takes no bullshit from anyone. She even talks back to the Sarge, which is like watching a mouse bark at a pitbull.","author":"M.R. Carey","tags":["confidence"],"id":89858,"author_id":"M.R.+Carey"},{"text":"Holy fuck,' Corcoran said, leaning back against the wall. 'I am going home and drinking a whole bottle of Bacardi. Someone can pour the Coke into me after I pass out.","author":"M.R. Carey","tags":["bacardi","drinking"],"id":111461,"author_id":"M.R.+Carey"},{"text":"Nothing goes on forever. If it did, there wouldn't be anything else, would there?","author":"M.R. Carey","tags":["eternity"],"id":125778,"author_id":"M.R.+Carey"},{"text":"She's in the club. The hopelessly-outnumbered-and-surrounded-by-monsters club.","author":"M.R. Carey","tags":["humor","monsters"],"id":149652,"author_id":"M.R.+Carey"},{"text":"Melanie thinks: when your dreams come true, your true has moved. You've already stopped being the person who had the dreams, so it feels more like a weird echo of something that already happened to you a long time ago.","author":"M.R. Carey","tags":["dreams"],"id":192351,"author_id":"M.R.+Carey"},{"text":"In an age of rust, she comes up stainless steel.","author":"M.R. Carey","tags":["biters","horror","science-fiction","zombies"],"id":207598,"author_id":"M.R.+Carey"},{"text":"Melanie understands jealousy. She’s jealous, a little bit, every time Miss Justineau talks to another boy or girl in class. She wants Miss Justineau’s time to belong to her, and the reminders that it doesn’t sting a little, make her heart do a gentle drop and thud in her chest.","author":"M.R. Carey","tags":["jealousy","love"],"id":252733,"author_id":"M.R.+Carey"},{"text":"No amount of expertly choreographed PR could prevail, in the end, against Armageddon. It strolled over the barricades and took its pleasure.","author":"M.R. Carey","tags":["apocalypse","armageddon"],"id":302393,"author_id":"M.R.+Carey"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":19,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}