{"quotes":[{"text":"We all have scars. Just because mine are hidden doesn’t make them any less painful.","author":"Nicki Salcedo","tags":["african-american","contemporary-romance","fiction","southern-fiction","suspense"],"id":3637,"author_id":"Nicki+Salcedo"},{"text":"Life can surprise you. You want something with every ounce of blood that flows in your veins, and then one day it's yours. Right there before you. Everything. You break out in a cold sweat with the undeniable realization that what you really want is home. Sometimes finding home is a long time coming. A long journey.","author":"Brenda Sutton Rose","tags":["home","life","southern-fiction","southern-writers"],"id":23043,"author_id":"Brenda+Sutton+Rose"},{"text":"The truth had lacerated him to the bone, had punctured his heart, and had ripped through his soul. The truth had slain him and tended to his wounds. The truth had hated him and loved him. The truth had opened his eyes to his own faults.","author":"Brenda Sutton Rose","tags":["georgia-writers","pain","southern-fiction","southern-writers","spiritual","truth"],"id":59400,"author_id":"Brenda+Sutton+Rose"},{"text":"Nothing helps your partner keep his mind on Jesus more than having a sign of His love tanned on your primary erogenous zones.","author":"Scott B. Pruden","tags":["humor","humorous","immaculate-deception","satire","science-fiction","science-fiction-comedy","science-fiction-thrillers","southern-fiction"],"id":75208,"author_id":"Scott+B.+Pruden"},{"text":"The general consensus seemed to be that if prayer didn't take care of the problem, a belt to the ass and the threat of reform school would.","author":"Steven Norton","tags":["discipline","humor","southern-fiction"],"id":76910,"author_id":"Steven+Norton"},{"text":"He ascended the mountain in darkness, no lamplight, a world black and silver and blue. The moon lay scattered through the woods in blades, glowing palely, the wind rising now and again to moan through the trees. The trail scrawled ever upward, toward the looming darkness of the mountain's peak. Above it all the sea of night, the strange ornamentation of stars.","author":"Taylor Brown","tags":["fiction","novel","southern-fiction","southern-writers"],"id":101659,"author_id":"Taylor+Brown"},{"text":"Hiding had been effortless in New York City. Getting lost in a sea of people was as easy as stepping onto a crowded Subway car. Sweet Laurel Cove would be very different. Generations of families filled its church pews, ran its farms, and schooled its children. Anonymity was as rare as lightning bugs in wintertime—as her grandmother would say.","author":"Teresa Tysinger","tags":["blue-ridge-mountains","christian-fiction","contemporary-romance","inspirational-romance","romance","southern-fiction","southern-romance"],"id":112808,"author_id":"Teresa+Tysinger"},{"text":"He takes a draw on a cigarette, blows out a smoky ghost. I reach to catch the phantom in my hands, but it eludes me. I've been trying to catch a ghost for as long as I can remember.","author":"Brenda Sutton Rose","tags":["cigarette-smoke","ghosts","literary","southern-fiction","southern-landscape","southern-writers"],"id":125356,"author_id":"Brenda+Sutton+Rose"},{"text":"Are you aware that Jesus Christ can spell? I get so tired of you spelling every slang and cuss word that crosses your mind, as though you are pulling one over on the Lord.","author":"Brenda Sutton Rose","tags":["humorous","southern-fiction","southern-writers"],"id":130669,"author_id":"Brenda+Sutton+Rose"},{"text":"Ruby's was where I'd long picked up delicious bits and pieces of small-town troubles, and of course, Ramona Jean was my very best source.","author":"Steven Norton","tags":["beauty-parlors","gossip","southern-fiction"],"id":131993,"author_id":"Steven+Norton"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":28,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}