{"author":"Stacey Kade","author_id":"Stacey+Kade","total_quotes":20,"quotes":[{"text":"Have some pride, will ya? Begging someone to like you is so pathetic.","author":"Stacey Kade","tags":["pride"],"id":13961,"author_id":"Stacey+Kade"},{"text":"What happened to you?' she asked.'Ben was feeling artistic. Wanted to rearrange my face.","author":"Stacey Kade","tags":["alona","ben","body","ghost","goth","kade","soul","stacey","will"],"id":22269,"author_id":"Stacey+Kade"},{"text":"It might have been my human side clamoring for blood, or my alien side looking for a chance to exercise strategic dominance over a lesser life form. Either way, I was going to win.","author":"Stacey Kade","tags":["alien","ariane","determination","human","life-form","win"],"id":28594,"author_id":"Stacey+Kade"},{"text":"What was the point, I had to wonder, of fighting so hard to learn to protect my life if I was destroying it in the process?","author":"Stacey Kade","tags":["destoying","learning","life"],"id":47933,"author_id":"Stacey+Kade"},{"text":"No. Not a death wish. Just very little left to lose.","author":"Stacey Kade","tags":["death-wish","loss"],"id":79002,"author_id":"Stacey+Kade"},{"text":"That was, in fact, my life. A whole series of reasonable lies.","author":"Stacey Kade","tags":["lies","reasonable-lies"],"id":96091,"author_id":"Stacey+Kade"},{"text":"And no, I think I'm better than you because I am better than you.","author":"Stacey Kade","tags":["attitude","better","ghosts","queen-of-the-dead","reason"],"id":128576,"author_id":"Stacey+Kade"},{"text":"So what did it matter where she came from? Who-or what-her parents were? Everyone's family was messed up in some way including my own. And she was still the same Ariane.","author":"Stacey Kade","tags":["coming-of-age","love","realization"],"id":171988,"author_id":"Stacey+Kade"},{"text":"Do you have any idea who Erin was kissing?'Yeah, so we'll brush out teeth really, really thoroughly afterwards,' I said, bumping her nose with mine gently. I wasn't going to let anyone spoil this moment.","author":"Stacey Kade","tags":["alona","body","ghost","goth","kade","kiss","soul","stacey","will"],"id":185854,"author_id":"Stacey+Kade"},{"text":"I couldn't loose somebody else like that, without even the chance to say good-bye. Not again. Not her.","author":"Stacey Kade","tags":["body","ghost","goth","kade","soul","stacey","will"],"id":199716,"author_id":"Stacey+Kade"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":20,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}