{"author":"Samuel Armen","author_id":"Samuel+Armen","total_quotes":4,"quotes":[{"text":"The wind considers how trauma is - in essence - just a memory that violates previous memories too barbarically, an event that devastatingly conflicts against everything else one knows.","author":"Samuel Armen","tags":["memories","memory","psychology","self","sociology","trauma"],"id":11027,"author_id":"Samuel+Armen"},{"text":"When you love someone you have chosen to relinquish a part of yourself in order to inherit a part of them, and what perpetuates that love is the feeling of confident appreciation for such a potentially debilitating trade. That's why heartbreak feels like a sudden void.","author":"Samuel Armen","tags":["appreciation","heartbreak","love","psychology","sociology","trust"],"id":115437,"author_id":"Samuel+Armen"},{"text":"She spoke to him of her problems, and that made him forget his own. She told him that he was intelligent, thoughtful, becoming, and deeply magnetic - everything he wanted so badly for her to see in him. Attention is the greatest gift when you're too afraid to pay it to yourself, the wind ruminates.","author":"Samuel Armen","tags":["attention","hope","love","lust","problems","psychology","sociology"],"id":234299,"author_id":"Samuel+Armen"},{"text":"But who knows why we really do anything? Who knows why we do what we do when we do it? Why your local barista greeted you with a curt 'hi' instead of her usual, mellifluous-sounding 'hello' has a trillion justifications. So, why someone decides to commit suicide might take a while to explain, and a lifetime to begin comprehending...","author":"Samuel Armen","tags":["death","life","psychology","sociology","suicide"],"id":461541,"author_id":"Samuel+Armen"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":4,"pages":1}}