{"author":"Tammara Webber","author_id":"Tammara+Webber","total_quotes":21,"quotes":[{"text":"But girls willing to share your bed don't equal girls willing to put up with your random crap moods, listen to your exhaustive legal opinions, or support your life's goals the way someone who loves you would.","author":"Tammara Webber","tags":["girls","jacqueline"],"id":1357,"author_id":"Tammara+Webber"},{"text":"I try to be rational and suppress the hope that this is for real, but hope has a way of closing its eyes to reason and it just keeps growing.","author":"Tammara Webber","tags":["hope"],"id":4976,"author_id":"Tammara+Webber"},{"text":"I shrugged. “I guess that guys who’d never do something like that have a hard time believing some other guy would,” I said, but I could see her point. Awareness and apologies were fine and good, but they could come too late.","author":"Tammara Webber","tags":["awareness","life-lessons","too-little-too-late","truth"],"id":14640,"author_id":"Tammara+Webber"},{"text":"I felt the threads of connection between us—fragile filaments, so easily snapped. Like the poem at shift into his side, we were craving to fit inside the other, and is melting and reshaping could be deeper, more resilient.","author":"Tammara Webber","tags":["easy","poem","tammara-webber"],"id":25742,"author_id":"Tammara+Webber"},{"text":"I was so afraid of wanting too much that I couldn't trust her handing me a shot at getting it. I don't want to be that senselessly fearful ever again.","author":"Tammara Webber","tags":["fear","love","trust"],"id":47186,"author_id":"Tammara+Webber"},{"text":"There are a million ways to lose someone you love.","author":"Tammara Webber","tags":["heartbreak","loss","love"],"id":118037,"author_id":"Tammara+Webber"},{"text":"She shuddered. “What is it with slobbery kissers? Are they trying to drown us in spit? I mean, Jesus, swallow every now and then.","author":"Tammara Webber","tags":["funny-but-true","gross","kissing","laugh-out-loud"],"id":129265,"author_id":"Tammara+Webber"},{"text":"It isn't fair how I doubt him, and I wonder if he'll ever gather that my loss of faith extends further than I'd ever known it would, severing lines of trust and leveling my confidence like a city-flattening tornado.","author":"Tammara Webber","tags":["doubt","loss-of-faith","trust"],"id":134934,"author_id":"Tammara+Webber"},{"text":"The little kids by the water threw their hands in the air and squealed, chasing each other in circles.It was hard to believe that I’d ever been that small. That young. That happy and clueless. They hadpain ahead. Heartbreak. Loss. They didn’t know and I didn’t want them to – but at the same time, Ihated that I hadn’t known. I’d taken everything for granted – my mother, my friends in Alexandria,playing hockey. I dreamed about the future because that’s what people persuade you to do whenyou’re a kid, but that’s the biggest lie of all – that you can plan. Reality is, you have no fucking cluewhat’s coming and neither do they.","author":"Tammara Webber","tags":["children","kids","landon","lucas","maxfield","reality-of-life"],"id":139035,"author_id":"Tammara+Webber"},{"text":"I’ve been thinking about that proof I spoke of last time – that you’re where you’re supposed to be. And it occurred to me, can you prove you’d be better off somewhere else? If you’d have left the state, your relationship would have ended still. Maybe you’d have even blamed yourself, not knowing that it was doomed because of him, either way. Instead, you’re here. You got dumped, skipped class, and met the best econ tutor at the university! Who knows, maybe I’ll make you fall in love with economics.","author":"Tammara Webber","tags":["cute","funny","life","love","love-story"],"id":157816,"author_id":"Tammara+Webber"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":21,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}