{"author":"Rasmenia Massoud","author_id":"Rasmenia+Massoud","total_quotes":12,"quotes":[{"text":"When I walked into the room, I looked down to the floor and saw that each and every garment I owned had been pulled from its rightful place and had been meticulously sliced into countless pieces. One thing was painfully obvious to me: these clothes were symbolic of me; they represented my body.What you really wanted was to slice me into countless pieces.","author":"Rasmenia Massoud","tags":["attack","fear","knife","violence"],"id":61554,"author_id":"Rasmenia+Massoud"},{"text":"Not every daughter mourns the loss of a mother.","author":"Rasmenia Massoud","tags":["daughters","mothers"],"id":74442,"author_id":"Rasmenia+Massoud"},{"text":"We laughed the way that only people who carry each other back from Hell can laugh when they finally get a hunger for the future once again.","author":"Rasmenia Massoud","tags":["endurance","future","hell","laugh","survival"],"id":78178,"author_id":"Rasmenia+Massoud"},{"text":"Hate isn’t the opposite of love, apathy is. Hating doesn’t free you from feeling anything. You have to carry it around, using every scar, every little memory like a building block. Like a stone in a wall, until you’ve created a new person, a new life that you can live with.","author":"Rasmenia Massoud","tags":["apathy","feeling","hate","life","love","reinventing-yourself","scars","walls"],"id":183816,"author_id":"Rasmenia+Massoud"},{"text":"Lucius didn’t believe in werewolves. He said that people were too horrible for any other monsters to exist, which he thought was a shame.","author":"Rasmenia Massoud","tags":["humanity","monsters","people"],"id":294482,"author_id":"Rasmenia+Massoud"},{"text":"He mentioned the connection between us. He identified with me. These are the things that many people want to hear, that most “normal” people want to be able to truthfully say, but almost no one can.","author":"Rasmenia Massoud","tags":["communication","connection","normal","people","relationships"],"id":333634,"author_id":"Rasmenia+Massoud"},{"text":"I envy you, your youth. Every woman is still a dream, a thing that can’t exist. Even when you touch her, a creature too beautiful to be real or to cause real pain. It’s different for old men. We have more old wounds from these dreams.","author":"Rasmenia Massoud","tags":["aging","dreams","men","reality","woman","youth"],"id":392608,"author_id":"Rasmenia+Massoud"},{"text":"Who’s happy? Happy is just what people think they are when they can’t find anything to bitch about.","author":"Rasmenia Massoud","tags":["bitch","happiness","happy","people","think"],"id":397225,"author_id":"Rasmenia+Massoud"},{"text":"A city isn’t so unlike a person. They both have the marks to show they have many stories to tell. They see many faces. They tear things down and make new again.","author":"Rasmenia Massoud","tags":["cities","people","scars","stories","surviving-tragedy"],"id":398088,"author_id":"Rasmenia+Massoud"},{"text":"There are no mirrors of any kind in here. If there were, I’d want to smash them, but I wouldn’t. Instead, I’d probably just stare at them, giving myself negative affirmations.","author":"Rasmenia Massoud","tags":["affirmations","humor","mirrors","self-esteem"],"id":406196,"author_id":"Rasmenia+Massoud"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":12,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}