{"author":"J.D. Stroube","author_id":"J.D.+Stroube","total_quotes":27,"quotes":[{"text":"I was caged within a four dimensional cube that eclipsed the world around me in an icy mist. I screamed; begging someone, anyone to hear my pleas, but my voice had been extinguished and left me with a slight wheeze from what little oxygen I had. I could glimpse the field of energy as it shrank through the safety of my circle to envelop me in a blazing grip. I was alone; unbearably separated from my haven.","author":"J.D. Stroube","tags":["alone","energy","haven","horror","magic","oxygen","paranormal","teen","ya"],"id":26479,"author_id":"J.D.+Stroube"},{"text":"If the town were a black hole, I was the helpless star being sucked into oblivion. It was an oblivion I craved.","author":"J.D. Stroube","tags":["black-hold","crave","horror","inspiration","oblivion","paranormal","star"],"id":63416,"author_id":"J.D.+Stroube"},{"text":"A complete stranger has the capacity to alter the life of another irrevocably. This domino effect has the capacity to change the course of an entire world. That is what life is; a chain reaction of individuals colliding with others and influencing their lives without realizing it. A decision that seems miniscule to you, may be monumental to the fate of the world.","author":"J.D. Stroube","tags":["alter","chain","choice","course","decision","domino","fate","inspirational","life","lives","monumental","reaction","stranger","world"],"id":83576,"author_id":"J.D.+Stroube"},{"text":"Death is deceitful, pretending that peace is on the horizon. The truth is that chaos is left in its wake, claiming the souls of those stranded in life. Death is the enemy of love in its purest form. It's the one thing that can tear our souls out and rip our hearts to pieces. The miraculous part of this process is that all it needs to do is extinguish a single, solitary breath. That's all it takes to steal the future of someone; someone who deserves to live more than all the others. If only I could capture that breath before it was taken to replace it with my own.","author":"J.D. Stroube","tags":["bargain","breath","caged","chaos","dead","death","deceit","future","grief","heart","horizon","loss","love","pass","peace","sacrifice","soul","stroube","truth"],"id":111751,"author_id":"J.D.+Stroube"},{"text":"The age of lost innocence varies for each person. Some lose it when they learn that their childhood fantasies are merely myth, while others lose theirs due to trauma. As adults, we often look down our noses at those who manage to retain their innocence; we scoff at these few as being immature or irresponsible. Could it be that we hide our envy behind the cloudy eyes of our lost innocence?","author":"J.D. Stroube","tags":["age","awakened","cloudy","envy","fantasy","hide","immature","innocence","irresponsible","jealousy","myth","past","quotes","scoff","soul","stroube","trauma"],"id":179205,"author_id":"J.D.+Stroube"},{"text":"Life is supposedly filled with paths that enable unlimited choices, but that is a blatant lie. No one has free will until they are an adult, and by then the choices made for them have already set them on a passage that limits the choices they have yet to make.","author":"J.D. Stroube","tags":["choices","free-will"],"id":204233,"author_id":"J.D.+Stroube"},{"text":"The melodious song mesmerized me and cloaked my soul in a most liberating embrace I had never known. The emotion enveloped me, and smothered the emptiness.","author":"J.D. Stroube","tags":["caged","cloak","embrace","emotion","emptiness","empty","euphoric","eveloped","feel","liberate","melodious","melody","mesmorize","numb","quote","smother","soul","spirit","stroube"],"id":226494,"author_id":"J.D.+Stroube"},{"text":"I could see her will leaving and death seeping through her skin to skewer her soul.","author":"J.D. Stroube","tags":["dark","paranormal","skewer","soul","will","willpower"],"id":235466,"author_id":"J.D.+Stroube"},{"text":"Mmmm… stay.” Her voice was barely audible, as she grazed her lips against mine and her head fell back against the pillow into a deep sleep.","author":"J.D. Stroube","tags":["bed","dreams","kiss","pillow","sleep"],"id":240714,"author_id":"J.D.+Stroube"},{"text":"Once I was free; there was no cage that could bind me, and I had yet to create my box of numbness within my mind to be my silent protector.","author":"J.D. Stroube","tags":["bind","box","caged","defense","emotion","empath","free","freedom","mind","numb","protector","quote","self","silent","spirit"],"id":248760,"author_id":"J.D.+Stroube"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":27,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}