{"author":"Tim Tharp","author_id":"Tim+Tharp","total_quotes":16,"quotes":[{"text":"We’re not the Faster-than-the-Speed-of-Light Generation anymore. We’re not even the Next-New-Thing Generation. We’re the Soon-to-Be-Obsolete Kids, and we’ve crowded in here to hide from the future and the past. We know what’s up – the future looms straight ahead like a black wrought-iron gate and the past is charging after us like a badass Doberman, only this one doesn’t have any letup in him.","author":"Tim Tharp","tags":["generation","graduating","graduation","growing-up","prom"],"id":11206,"author_id":"Tim+Tharp"},{"text":"Goodbye. Goodbye. I can't feel you anymore. The night is almost too beautifully pure for my soul to contain. I walk with my arms spread open under the big fat moon. Heroic weeds rise up from the cracks in the sidewalk, and the colored lights of the Hawaiian Breeze ignite the broken glass in the gutter. Goodbye, I say, goodbye, as I disappear little by little into the middle of the middle of my own spectacular now.","author":"Tim Tharp","tags":["coming-of-age","life","now"],"id":105190,"author_id":"Tim+Tharp"},{"text":"We’re toasting the chlorophyll rising in our bodies, catching the energy from the universe. Nobody’s ever been young like we are right at this moment.","author":"Tim Tharp","tags":["inspirational-life"],"id":147718,"author_id":"Tim+Tharp"},{"text":"You have to stop thinking that way. Don't worry about who has the power in the relationship all the time. If you make her happy, then that's the biggest power you can have.","author":"Tim Tharp","tags":["advice","happiness","love","power"],"id":160733,"author_id":"Tim+Tharp"},{"text":"They've drummed the miraculous out of you, but you don't want it to be like that. You want the miraculous. You want everything to still be new.","author":"Tim Tharp","tags":["life","life-lessons","life"],"id":171436,"author_id":"Tim+Tharp"},{"text":"Life is spectacular. Forget the dark things. Take a drink and let time wash them away to where ever time washes away to.","author":"Tim Tharp","tags":["life-experience","life"],"id":182256,"author_id":"Tim+Tharp"},{"text":"Her voice is so soft. If it were a food item, it’d be a marshmallow.","author":"Tim Tharp","tags":["awe","food-for-thought"],"id":193684,"author_id":"Tim+Tharp"},{"text":"When you’re with a girl, it’s always best to act like you’re an old hand at everything—not to impress her, but just to make sure she feels safe.","author":"Tim Tharp","tags":["the-spectacular-now","tim-tharp","young-adult"],"id":194272,"author_id":"Tim+Tharp"},{"text":"I open my arms wide and let the wind flow over me. I love the universe and the universe loves me. That’s the one-two punch right there, wanting to love and wanting to be loved. Everything else is pure idiocy—shiny fancy outfits, Geech-green Cadillacs, sixty-dollar haircuts, schlock radio, celebrity-rehab idiots, and most of all, the atomic vampires with their de-soul-inators, and flag-draped coffins. Goodbye to all that, I say. And goodbye to Mr. Asterhole and the Red Death of algebra and to the likes of Geech and Keeeevin. Goodbye to Mom’s rented tan and my sister’s chargecard boobs. Goodbye to Dad for the second and last time. Goodbye to black spells and jagged hangovers, divorces, and Fort Worth nightmares. To high school and Bob Lewis and once-upon-a-time Ricky. Goodbye to the future and the past and, most of all, to Aimee and Cassidy and all the other girls who came and went and came and went. Goodbye. Goodbye. I can’t feel you anymore. The night is almost too beautifully pure for my soul to contain. I walk with my arms spread open under the big fat moon. Heroic “weeds rise up from the cracks in the sidewalk, and the colored lights of the Hawaiian Breeze ignite the broken glass in the gutter. Goodbye, I say, goodbye, as I disappear little by little into the middle of the middle of my own spectacular now.","author":"Tim Tharp","tags":["inspirational","life-and-living","moment-of-being"],"id":281394,"author_id":"Tim+Tharp"},{"text":"That's how it is with legends. The greater they sound, the more must've got left out.","author":"Tim Tharp","tags":["exaggeration","legends","rewriting-history","truth"],"id":349515,"author_id":"Tim+Tharp"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":16,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}