{"author":"Michelle Tea","author_id":"Michelle+Tea","total_quotes":21,"quotes":[{"text":"Our lives make awesome stories, especially if you don't get too attached to the thread of your own narrative.","author":"Michelle Tea","tags":["writing-advice"],"id":13357,"author_id":"Michelle+Tea"},{"text":"This is growing up, having to stomp out love, this is how people turn terrible.","author":"Michelle Tea","tags":["growing-up"],"id":19385,"author_id":"Michelle+Tea"},{"text":"She didn’t know that my heart was a sandstorm waiting to open her skin in a desert of cuts. She didn’t know the animal that waited in my stomach, silently shredding the walls. For her, my heart wore small white shoes and carried a purse, went to bed early. I wanted to shoot myself into her arms so she understood the need to crash cars with me, to tear up pavement because we were beautiful.","author":"Michelle Tea","tags":["longing","love","queer","queer-lit","queer-subculture"],"id":49401,"author_id":"Michelle+Tea"},{"text":"Sophie knew about power animals,everyone did...Sophie thought she might be a cat, she liked cats a lot.","author":"Michelle Tea","tags":["animal","awesome","cats","power","relate"],"id":55723,"author_id":"Michelle+Tea"},{"text":"Michelle had great admiration for criminals and crime, though only from a distance.","author":"Michelle Tea","tags":["crime","criminals"],"id":71630,"author_id":"Michelle+Tea"},{"text":"And give me insults, give meeconomic discrimination, give methe darkened parking lot of a windowless queer bar, give me fleets of bigots and books bannedin libraries across america, feed the worldwith lies about my life and plop a secondhelping of oppression on my plateand thank you for not making me straight.","author":"Michelle Tea","tags":["beautiful"],"id":73517,"author_id":"Michelle+Tea"},{"text":"You can’t get lost if you have nowhere to be.","author":"Michelle Tea","tags":["lost"],"id":77996,"author_id":"Michelle+Tea"},{"text":"Did anyone think this canon of druggie men were out of control? Only in the most admirable of ways! Out of control like a shaman or a space explorer, like a magician sawing himself in half. Out of control like a poet.","author":"Michelle Tea","tags":["druggie","explorer","magician","men","poet","shaman","space"],"id":118903,"author_id":"Michelle+Tea"},{"text":"She was just so sad. Her whole face hung with it, like sadness was her personal gravity.","author":"Michelle Tea","tags":["sadness"],"id":135297,"author_id":"Michelle+Tea"},{"text":"Gwynn, she was always talking about wanting to be drunk and honestly I did want to encourage that, I wanted to go to a bar with her and let all the stuff sobriety pushed down be released so I could catch it in my palms and finally kiss her. She was just so sad. Melancholy was a fleshy wave permanently cresting on her face, she had to speak through it when she talked.","author":"Michelle Tea","tags":["alcoholism","emotion","longing","love","melancholy","sobriety"],"id":165433,"author_id":"Michelle+Tea"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":21,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}