{"author":"Agnostic Zetetic","author_id":"Agnostic+Zetetic","total_quotes":17,"quotes":[{"text":"Most days, I’ve got this impermanence thing down just great. It doesn’t bother me; what’s to bother? Most days, I sit comfortably with the knowledge that I’ll die alone, and I feel nothing so strongly as my embrace of my nothingness. Most days don’t really matter, because there is only this day, and right now I feel like fear is all I am. I don’t want you to leave. Just let me pretend you won’t.'He wrapped his arms around me and we slept. For that night, we would last forever.","author":"Agnostic Zetetic","tags":["desire","embrace","fear","forever","heartache","impermanence","infinite","leaving","loneliness","love","lust","passion","snuggle","want"],"id":12554,"author_id":"Agnostic+Zetetic"},{"text":"THIS IS WHAT A MAN LOOKS LIKE. HE DOES NOT HAVE TO BE AESTHETICALLY PLEASING; HE DOES NOT HAVE TO BE MUSCULAR; HE DESERVES NOT TO BE PHOTOSHOPPED. HE IS HUMAN, AND HE HAS BLEMISHES. HERE HE STANDS, VISIBLE. HE SEES YOU ALL, COUNTLESS INVISIBLE OTHERS LIKE HIM. THIS BODY IS ACCEPTABLE — PUBESCENT, AWKWARD, MARRED. YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE INVISIBLE. WE ARE ALL GOOD ENOUGH. THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH OUR BODIES.","author":"Agnostic Zetetic","tags":["awkward","blemish","body","body-shame","equality","feminism","happy","human","image","invisible","lgbt","male","male-beauty","man","masculinity","muscle","photoshop","pride","puberty","reality","shame","trans","transgender","visibility"],"id":26028,"author_id":"Agnostic+Zetetic"},{"text":"What you call 'contradiction' I call 'complement'.","author":"Agnostic Zetetic","tags":["complement","contradiction","honesty","humanity","infinite","outside-the-box","reality","vastness"],"id":43612,"author_id":"Agnostic+Zetetic"},{"text":"If it’s convenient to love you, you’re lying to someone about who you are or what you need.","author":"Agnostic Zetetic","tags":["authenticity","convenient","dedication","honesty","love","marriage","partner","relationship"],"id":93497,"author_id":"Agnostic+Zetetic"},{"text":"No one has the right to demand that your body be something other than what it is.","author":"Agnostic Zetetic","tags":["body","body-modification","body-shame","cosmetics","expectations","judgment","opinion","relationships","shame","societal-expectations","surgery","trans","transgender"],"id":110343,"author_id":"Agnostic+Zetetic"},{"text":"Should' assumes that when either willingness or ability is lacking, it may be compensated for by an abundance of the other. This is simply not realistic.","author":"Agnostic Zetetic","tags":["boundaries","emotions","expectations","human-interaction","psychology","reality","relationships","should"],"id":146740,"author_id":"Agnostic+Zetetic"},{"text":"We’re not broken. We’re not in the wrong bodies. We’re not inadequate. We’re not lesser. We’re not unwanted. We’re not fraudulent. We’re not undesirable. That’s all just a set of lies we tell to soothe the experience of the prisons we put ourselves in.","author":"Agnostic Zetetic","tags":["acceptance","authenticity","beauty","body","body-shame","closet","closeted","desire","honesty","lies","mind","prison","shame","trans","transgender-lgbt","truth","undesirable"],"id":154944,"author_id":"Agnostic+Zetetic"},{"text":"If you’re lying to everyone you know, including yourself, at every possible turn, is a little upheaval really the worst that could happen to your life right now?","author":"Agnostic Zetetic","tags":["boundaries","happiness","honesty","lying","relationships","self-awareness","truth","upheaval"],"id":158259,"author_id":"Agnostic+Zetetic"},{"text":"One day, while life is being incredible and interesting, I’m going to die.","author":"Agnostic Zetetic","tags":["beauty","death","dying","humanity","impermanence","life","mortality","world"],"id":196609,"author_id":"Agnostic+Zetetic"},{"text":"All I’m saying is that I want you to be happy. I don’t care how it happens, or what it takes to facilitate it. I don’t care if it happens with me or without me. I don’t care if you use me to get there, or if I’m entirely irrelevant to your process. None of me is attached to how your happiness happens; I care only that it does.","author":"Agnostic Zetetic","tags":["genuine","happiness","happy","joy","love","purity","relationships","selflessness","service"],"id":246050,"author_id":"Agnostic+Zetetic"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":17,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}