{"author":"Karen Quan","author_id":"Karen+Quan","total_quotes":37,"quotes":[{"text":"I'll use the blood from my spilling heart to write the words that were never able to slip out of my mouth, so you can see how much you've broken me into a perpetual state of melancholy.","author":"Karen Quan","tags":["broken","crying","emotional","melancholy","mouth","pain","sorrow","words","writing"],"id":7690,"author_id":"Karen+Quan"},{"text":"Do you ever think of me when you look up at the moon and the stars? When you look into the horizon as the sun sets? We're looking at the same sun, and the stars may burn brighter where you are, but I can't see them, and they're still there. I spend nights trying to see the stars that you see, but I end up seeing you in the stars instead.","author":"Karen Quan","tags":["feelings","heartache","in-love","infatuation","love-sick","moon","quotes","stars","sun-set","wishing"],"id":18261,"author_id":"Karen+Quan"},{"text":"You've left me with a kaleidoscope of broken smiles and shattered dreams.","author":"Karen Quan","tags":["dreams","heartbreak","heartbroken","loss","love-lost","quotes","relationship","sadness","shattered"],"id":21881,"author_id":"Karen+Quan"},{"text":"This girl who's slept a hundred years has something after all. It's called Centuryitis, and it has turned me into a man. Oh, what will mamma think when she sees me?!-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz.","author":"Karen Quan","tags":["centuryitis","change","family","humor","ill","illness","life","man","mom","mother","relationships","sick","sleep","sleeping","surreal"],"id":28363,"author_id":"Karen+Quan"},{"text":"These days, I'm finding it harder and harder to breathe. My chest pounds with every heart beat like you're here, again, standing in front of me, your two hands around my neck.","author":"Karen Quan","tags":["abstract","breathe","broken","fatal-attraction","heart-beat","love","relationship","you-and-me"],"id":42148,"author_id":"Karen+Quan"},{"text":"I have always wanted to give you the world, so I started giving you pieces of the oceans that kept us apart.","author":"Karen Quan","tags":["apart","emotional","far-away","heartache","love","love","ocean","oceans","pieces","pushed-me-further-away","relationships","sad","without-you","world"],"id":59327,"author_id":"Karen+Quan"},{"text":"I miss you like the mismatching sock I can't find. You're out there somewhere.","author":"Karen Quan","tags":["life","longing","missing","relationships","romance","socks","yearning"],"id":73221,"author_id":"Karen+Quan"},{"text":"It's super cloudy right now but I think I can see the northern lights from my room. Another observation: Every light is a strobe light, if you just blink fast enough, and drink enough vodka.-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz.","author":"Karen Quan","tags":["blink","clouds","cloudy","drink","drinking","humor","instaquote","light","lights","northern-lights","strobe-light","surreal","vodka"],"id":85405,"author_id":"Karen+Quan"},{"text":"I really hate that I need my glasses while using my laptop. What I hate even more is that I need those glasses to be full of vodka at all times.-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz.","author":"Karen Quan","tags":["computer","drink","drinking","glasses","humor","laptop","surreal","time","vision","vodka","word-play"],"id":140001,"author_id":"Karen+Quan"},{"text":"When you're reaching the end of the semester and you just wanna die. Coffin Making 101 is literally killing me.-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz.","author":"Karen Quan","tags":["absurd","class","coffin","college","death","die","humor","kill","killing","pressure","school","semester","stress","surreal","university"],"id":143346,"author_id":"Karen+Quan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":37,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}