{"author":"Dana Reinhardt","author_id":"Dana+Reinhardt","total_quotes":16,"quotes":[{"text":"The roof was torn off the gym. God's way of telling the jocks that they'd better remember who's really charge.","author":"Dana Reinhardt","tags":["humor","school","sports","tornado"],"id":344,"author_id":"Dana+Reinhardt"},{"text":"The walls were coming down around me, but still, I couldn't imagine telling the truth. Not now. It was too late. How can I tell Mom and Dad what we'd done? It would ruin everything. It would ruin their image of me; it would ruin every thought they'd ever had about who I was. It would be another death.Another loss. Another miscarriage.","author":"Dana Reinhardt","tags":["consequences","death","lie","truth"],"id":7953,"author_id":"Dana+Reinhardt"},{"text":"They're just words. And words alone don't really mean anything. It's what you feel and what you believe when you say them that matter.","author":"Dana Reinhardt","tags":["truth"],"id":18260,"author_id":"Dana+Reinhardt"},{"text":"I thought he might kiss me as we sat shivering on the bank of the spring with our clothes soaked through and our feet dangling in the steaming water. We looked into each other's eyes the way I'd always imagined people did right before they leaned in closer and touched lips for the first time. But that was all we did. We looked at each other. Into each other. We were still clutching hands.","author":"Dana Reinhardt","tags":["eyes","friendship","imagine","kiss","love","water","wet"],"id":21546,"author_id":"Dana+Reinhardt"},{"text":"I'd watched enough TV in the lonely afternoons after school, before there was a cheese shop to go to, to know that there were boys who lied, who knew how to say just the right thing or give you just the right look. Boys who could make you feel a way you thought you didn't deserve to feel.","author":"Dana Reinhardt","tags":["boys","lies"],"id":26390,"author_id":"Dana+Reinhardt"},{"text":"My brother, he says. My brother is dead.'And again he asks me to kill him. One more time before he falls to his knees and sobs. And I get it. I do. Because I have a brother too.","author":"Dana Reinhardt","tags":["brothers","understanding"],"id":116899,"author_id":"Dana+Reinhardt"},{"text":"But here's something that I know about friendship: Sometimes the right thing to do is to not point out that your friend hasn't touched her chicken fingers or French fries and not point that maybe she's just overreacting. Instead, you just smile and sit with her and say, 'I understand' when really, you don't understand her at all.","author":"Dana Reinhardt","tags":["friendship","lies","truth"],"id":245978,"author_id":"Dana+Reinhardt"},{"text":"The Little Drummer Boy' was playing in the background for what seemed like the third time in a row. I fought off an urge to beat that Little Drummer Boy seneless with his own drumsticks.","author":"Dana Reinhardt","tags":["christmas","humor","music"],"id":276790,"author_id":"Dana+Reinhardt"},{"text":"I have a theory that as long as you have one good friend, one real friend, you can get through anything.","author":"Dana Reinhardt","tags":["truth"],"id":277876,"author_id":"Dana+Reinhardt"},{"text":"It was then, there in the darkness, with only those little pin-points of light to see by, light from a world away where other people with their own problems and their own secrets lived their own lives, that everything in our world changed for good.","author":"Dana Reinhardt","tags":["change","consequences-truth","lies"],"id":291634,"author_id":"Dana+Reinhardt"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":16,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}