{"author":"Eric Jerome Dickey","author_id":"Eric+Jerome+Dickey","total_quotes":16,"quotes":[{"text":"And a woman needs a man to protect her from other men. Well, women used to. . . . Things have changed. Women are in the middle East, fighting and protecting men now.","author":"Eric Jerome Dickey","tags":["dialogue","food-for-thought","medianoche-to-gideon","real"],"id":6422,"author_id":"Eric+Jerome+Dickey"},{"text":"It is silent, an anagram for listen. That is what I do. Listen while she remains silent.","author":"Eric Jerome Dickey","tags":["listening","silence"],"id":10220,"author_id":"Eric+Jerome+Dickey"},{"text":"People know your tragedies and they treat you like you’re not human. Like you’re a three-headed goat. A monster from some other planet. They keep reminding you of your pain. You see how they look at me? They’re stuck on that person I used to be. They can’t see that old life as just a moment in time that I’ve moved on from. It was a horrible life.","author":"Eric Jerome Dickey","tags":["moving","tragedy","used-to-be"],"id":61878,"author_id":"Eric+Jerome+Dickey"},{"text":"DNA predisposes a certain behavior, but if your environment doesn't support it, then that behavior won't manifest. When people don't have opportunity, they have to create their own opportunities.","author":"Eric Jerome Dickey","tags":["deep","dialogue","food-for-thought"],"id":132544,"author_id":"Eric+Jerome+Dickey"},{"text":". . . The walls of her vagina tightening around me as she laughed.","author":"Eric Jerome Dickey","tags":["deep-pov","gideon","hawks","intimacy"],"id":172158,"author_id":"Eric+Jerome+Dickey"},{"text":"Preacher pulled her gun to her lap, the trigger aimed toward the stranger. . . . He stared at her like he was ready to dial 911, until he saw she was of European heritage, saw her clerical collar, saw the Bible on the dashboard. White, blond, and Christian. Trifecta. The man's shoulders relaxed and he smiled, waved, and kept going.","author":"Eric Jerome Dickey","tags":["bias","ingenious","privilege","real"],"id":179982,"author_id":"Eric+Jerome+Dickey"},{"text":"All I wanted was you. I tore down my wall for you. Now it's been rebuilt.","author":"Eric Jerome Dickey","tags":["arizona","dialogue","gideon","heart"],"id":255854,"author_id":"Eric+Jerome+Dickey"},{"text":"Hate isn't healthy, it damages the hater more than the one who's hated!","author":"Eric Jerome Dickey","tags":["hate"],"id":268392,"author_id":"Eric+Jerome+Dickey"},{"text":"Some crazy man came up to me and started screaming at me about how he hated Allah, and before I could tell him that my family was part of the Catholic Church in India, he knifed me.","author":"Eric Jerome Dickey","tags":["assumption","dialogue","ignorance","real"],"id":275774,"author_id":"Eric+Jerome+Dickey"},{"text":"I heard you on the phone with her. I happened to be in your arms, and you happened to be inside of me, balls deep from what I remember, so I felt the difference, felt what you felt for her, heard how your voice changed when you talked to her.","author":"Eric Jerome Dickey","tags":["deep","dialogue","hawks-to-gideon-about-arizona","ingenious"],"id":284223,"author_id":"Eric+Jerome+Dickey"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":16,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}