{"author":"Angela N. Blount","author_id":"Angela+N.+Blount","total_quotes":14,"quotes":[{"text":"Everybody’s damaged. It’s just a question of how badly, and whether you’re healing or still bleeding.","author":"Angela N. Blount","tags":["damaged","healing","hope","inspirational"],"id":40849,"author_id":"Angela+N.+Blount"},{"text":"The only thing I want more than you, is to do right by you.","author":"Angela N. Blount","tags":["chivalry","devotion","honorable","love","love"],"id":52801,"author_id":"Angela+N.+Blount"},{"text":"Odd, how life makes twists and turns. I never would have guessed that I’d end up where I am now, but I wouldn’t trade it for the world. I wouldn’t trade this path I’m on for the whole solar system, for that matter. If I’ve learned anything these last several months, it’s that sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn’t mean to take.","author":"Angela N. Blount","tags":["destination","destiny","detours","journey","journey-of-life","life","life-lessons","unexpected"],"id":54605,"author_id":"Angela+N.+Blount"},{"text":"Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn't mean to take.","author":"Angela N. Blount","tags":["detour-in-life","detours","inspirational","perspective","road-trip","roads","unexpected"],"id":88556,"author_id":"Angela+N.+Blount"},{"text":"Don't expect a man will try any harder to keep you than he did to get you.","author":"Angela N. Blount","tags":["effort","men","relationship-advice","romance","wisdom"],"id":138819,"author_id":"Angela+N.+Blount"},{"text":"Then, by your definition... I'm in love with you.","author":"Angela N. Blount","tags":["love","love","love-story","romance"],"id":204624,"author_id":"Angela+N.+Blount"},{"text":"His attentive treatment of her had nothing to do with the presumption that she was weak, and everything to do with the conviction that she was valuable.","author":"Angela N. Blount","tags":["chivalry","honorable","inspirational-love","presumption","value"],"id":253011,"author_id":"Angela+N.+Blount"},{"text":"Romantic love, I think, requires a degree of physical attraction, but devotion is needed to maintain it as an actual relationship. Physical attraction is a feeling you don't really have control over, but devotion is something that has to be chosen. So, ideally... I suppose it's passion combined with the commitment to value someone else completely above oneself.","author":"Angela N. Blount","tags":["commitment","defining-love","devotion","love","romance","what-is-love"],"id":294510,"author_id":"Angela+N.+Blount"},{"text":"Have you ever tried thinking of God as a person instead of an all-powerful vending machine that never gives you the right amount of change? He has feelings too, you know.","author":"Angela N. Blount","tags":["faith","god","perspective"],"id":377088,"author_id":"Angela+N.+Blount"},{"text":"You feel more like home to me than any place I've ever been.","author":"Angela N. Blount","tags":["belonging","home","in-love","love"],"id":384672,"author_id":"Angela+N.+Blount"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":14,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}