{"author":"John Corey Whaley","author_id":"John+Corey+Whaley","total_quotes":33,"quotes":[{"text":"We let them help because they needed it, not us. We didn't let them help us because we needed it, we let them help us because inside of humans is this thing, this unnamed need to feel as if we are usefel in the world. To feel as if we have something significant to contribute.'---Cullen.","author":"John Corey Whaley","tags":["humanity"],"id":2727,"author_id":"John+Corey+Whaley"},{"text":"But at home, that same day he'd jumped into the fountain, he'd gotten so anxious, pacing around the living room listening to his parents try to calm him, that he suddenly just lost it completely and slapped his face. He immediately started crying, confused and guilty, looking up at his parents like he had no idea how it happened. And, really, that's the way it always was with the hitting. It would happen so fast, his body shaking to release the tension that built up from all the thoughts swirling through his mind and all the air he was having trouble breathing and all the loud beating of his own heart ringing in his ears. It had to get out and that was the path it chose. Slap. Instant relief.","author":"John Corey Whaley","tags":["anxiety","relatable","sad-but-true","spoilers"],"id":42938,"author_id":"John+Corey+Whaley"},{"text":"But in that moment I understood what they say about nostalgia, that no matter if you're thinking of something good or bad, it always leaves you a little emptier afterward.","author":"John Corey Whaley","tags":["empty","life","noggin","nostalgia","truth"],"id":49949,"author_id":"John+Corey+Whaley"},{"text":"She believed in herself maybe more than other people believed in God or the devil or Heaven or Hell.","author":"John Corey Whaley","tags":["believe-in-yourself"],"id":54199,"author_id":"John+Corey+Whaley"},{"text":"Not only had my brother disappeared, but--and bear with me here--a part of my very being had gone with him. Stories about us could, from them on, be told from only one perspective. Memories could be told but not shared.","author":"John Corey Whaley","tags":["brothers","death","death-of-a-loved-one","family","grief","loss","siblings","sisters"],"id":55341,"author_id":"John+Corey+Whaley"},{"text":"Dr. Webb says that life is so full of complications and confusion that humans oftentimes find it hard to cope. This leads to people throwing themselves in front of trains and spending all their money and not speaking to their relatives and never going home for Christmas and never eating anything with chocolate in it.Life, he says, doesn't have to be so bad all the time. We don't have to be so anxious about everything. We can just be. We can get up, anticipate that the day will probably have a few good moments and a few bad ones, and then just deal with it. Take it all in and deal as best as we can.","author":"John Corey Whaley","tags":["afraid","anxious","bad-day","bad-moment","cope","dealing","family","fear","feeling","good-day","good-moment","pain"],"id":63115,"author_id":"John+Corey+Whaley"},{"text":"And, long after Clark had gone home, Solomon stayed up wondering if everyone falls in love with someone who can't love them back.","author":"John Corey Whaley","tags":["love","unrequited-love"],"id":108243,"author_id":"John+Corey+Whaley"},{"text":"You're like Lady MacBeth without the murder.'Thank you. You have no idea how much of a compliment that is to me.","author":"John Corey Whaley","tags":["determination"],"id":134896,"author_id":"John+Corey+Whaley"},{"text":"The thing to know about my brother was that even though he was fifteen, he looked to be about the same age as me. Only, I'm not sure if that was because he looked older or I looked younger. I like to think it was a healthy mixture of both.","author":"John Corey Whaley","tags":["age","siblings"],"id":137192,"author_id":"John+Corey+Whaley"},{"text":"I thought maybe a day was coming when I'd stop constantly worrying about how to live. Maybe at some point I'd just start living, no questions asked.","author":"John Corey Whaley","tags":["inspirational","inspirational-life","life"],"id":147612,"author_id":"John+Corey+Whaley"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":33,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}