{"quotes":[{"text":"I like to write literature that reads like pulp fiction.","author":"Nike N. Chillemi","tags":["arson","historical-suspense","murder-mystery","suspense"],"id":27108,"author_id":"Nike+N.+Chillemi"},{"text":"One of my favorite dialogue pieces from Black Creek Burning: “It was a polite, white lie,” Brie whispered. “I’ll have to remember you think that way,” Nathan said.","author":"R.T. Wolfe","tags":["arson","black-creek-burning","gardening","murder","romantic-suspense","sweet","vengeance","woodworking"],"id":67584,"author_id":"R.T.+Wolfe"},{"text":"The dark sky seemed to swallow the moon, as Samantha stood alone on the deserted highway.","author":"Grace Willows","tags":["arson","desire","fire","highway","hunted","love","mystery","passion","pyromania","romance","romance-novels","romantic-suspense","scary","stalked","stalker"],"id":129936,"author_id":"Grace+Willows"},{"text":"Black Creek Burning: “It was a polite, white lie,” Brie whispered. “I’ll have to remember you think that way,” Nathan said.","author":"R.T. Wolfe","tags":["arson","black-creek-burning","gardening","murder","romantic-suspense","sweet","vengeance-in-death","woodworking"],"id":136924,"author_id":"R.T.+Wolfe"},{"text":"Like waking up in our home one night to find ourselves in a blazing fire, we must be arsonists of emotion, forcing ourselves to grab only what is truly important to us before our life-rafters collapse in on us and we can no longer escape alive.","author":"A.J. Darkholme","tags":["arson","arsonists","death","emotion","fire","home","house","importance","saving"],"id":201548,"author_id":"A.J.+Darkholme"},{"text":"And that was when it really came home to me what I was about to do. I was going to rob a bank, committing the additional crime of arson in the process, and if I got caught I'd go to prison.Well, I thought, go on selling second-hand jalopies for another forty years and maybe somebody'll give you a testimonial and a forty-dollar watch.","author":"Charles Williams","tags":["arson","caught","crime","prison","rob","robbery","selling"],"id":226530,"author_id":"Charles+Williams"},{"text":"Information or allegations reflecting negatively on individuals or groups seen less sympathetically by the intelligentsia pass rapidly into the public domain with little scrutiny and much publicity. Two of the biggest proven hoaxes of our time have involved allegations of white men gang-raping a black woman-- first the Tawana Brawley hoax of 1987 and later the false rape charges against three Duke University students in 2006. In both cases, editorial indignation rang out across the land, without a speck of evidence to substantiate either of these charges. Moreover, the denunciations were not limited to the particular men accused, but were often extended to society at large, of whom these men were deemed to be symptoms or 'the tip of the iceberg.' In both cases, the charges fit a pre-existing vision, and that apparently made mundane facts unneces.","author":"Thomas Sowell","tags":["academia","arson","bigotry","bill-clinton","collectivism","dorothy-gilliam","duke-university","intelligentsia","jesse-jackson","leftism","liberalism","media","media-manipulation","new-york-times","rape-culture","rape-myth","statistics"],"id":280275,"author_id":"Thomas+Sowell"},{"text":"Your red dress,’ she said, and laughed.But I looked at the dress on the floor and it was as if the fire had spread across the room. It was beautiful and it reminded me of something I must do. I will remember I thought. I will remember quite soon now.","author":"Jean Rhys","tags":["arson","dress","fire","red","remember"],"id":303039,"author_id":"Jean+Rhys"},{"text":"Sitting to think of what to write will only set your ass on fire, give you headache, twist your face to look stupid, instead, walk around with a blank mind and something from somewhere will fill it up.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["arson","ass","blank","boredom","brain","clever","contemplation","creative-thoughts","creativity","ennui","head","headache","heat","idea","ideas","insanity","inspiration","intuition","madness","magic","michael-bassey-johnson","muse","muses","musings","ponder","pondering","ruminate","rumination","thinking","thought","thoughts","writer","writers","writing"],"id":303343,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"Why do you have a cigarette lighter in your glove compartment?' her husband, Jack, asked her. 'I'm bored with knitting. I've taken up arson.","author":"Audrey Niffenegger","tags":["arson","knitting","sarcasm","smoking"],"id":351495,"author_id":"Audrey+Niffenegger"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":12,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}