{"author":"Zack Love","author_id":"Zack+Love","total_quotes":89,"quotes":[{"text":"Well why don't you lean over this counter a little more and give me your best kiss, and then I'll tell you if I want you to take me out to dinner.","author":"Zack Love","tags":["alex","humor","new-york-city","short-story","suspense","true-love","zack-love"],"id":2910,"author_id":"Zack+Love"},{"text":"It’s not a bad thing, if you’re responsible about it. Just don’t start having boyfriends. Wait until you’ve found your husband.” “And how am I supposed to find a husband if I can’t have a boyfriend until then?” I asked ironically.","author":"Zack Love","tags":["christianity","contemporary","faith","family","life","life-lessons","love","marriage","mother-daughter-bond","syrian-civil-war","tradition","wisdom","women"],"id":5855,"author_id":"Zack+Love"},{"text":"Compartmentalization is an unconscious psychological defense mechanism employed to avoid cognitive dissonance.","author":"Zack Love","tags":["feelings","memory","mind","nature","people","protection","self","survival"],"id":11483,"author_id":"Zack+Love"},{"text":"So your theory would seem to be that lying to yourself is no lie at all because you haven’t deceived any third party. And if you then convince yourself of those lies, you’ll believe them enough to repeat them to other with the genuine conviction that they’re true.” 'Something like that,” I conceded uneasily.","author":"Zack Love","tags":["honesty","individuals","lies","life","philosophy","reality","truths"],"id":18085,"author_id":"Zack+Love"},{"text":"But the fantasy kingdom and trappings of success soon lost their luster, as I discovered that the most prestigious and remunerative of my resume's way stations was also the most tedious and unfulfilling I had ever experienced. This paradox only made me more morose about modernity. Why was I going to watch my hairline recede in front of two-thousand-line spreadsheets staring at me from cold, glowing monitors? Why was everyone in my office apparently so happy to be spending so many hours there, when the things they really cared about - people, pets, pastimes - were all relegated to a few photographs on their desks? That seemed to be the formula: spend the best years of your life in an office with photos of what you really care about.","author":"Zack Love","tags":["alex","choices-success","clarity","family","life-lessons","new-york-city","purpose","short-story","struggle","thought-provoking","unfulfilling-feeling"],"id":19355,"author_id":"Zack+Love"},{"text":"Let the park live in you until it sings you a song.","author":"Zack Love","tags":["central-park","encounter","heartwarming","inspirational","new-york-city","romance","soulmates-love"],"id":21420,"author_id":"Zack+Love"},{"text":"The official recruiting process for their posse began. Because Carlos, Narc, and Trevor each had high SQs, Heeb and Evan reasoned that adding the three to their group would raise the average SQ of each group member (much the way that colleges recruit individuals with higher test scores to increase the average test scores of their matriculated students).","author":"Zack Love","tags":["attractiveness","books","boys-club","carlos","evan","friendship","heeb","humour","men","narc","theories","trevor"],"id":23040,"author_id":"Zack+Love"},{"text":"My decision to become a teacher suddenly seemed even more appropriate. Life had just become that much more unpredictably precarious and ill-suited to long-term planning, and it felt that much more necessary to spread love and knowledge to those who would one day have to manage this messy and painful world of ours'Also in Zack Love's 'Stories and Scripts: an Anthology.","author":"Zack Love","tags":["911","contemplation","l-thought-provoking","life-lessons","life-philosophy","new-york-city","short-story","zack-love"],"id":23565,"author_id":"Zack+Love"},{"text":"I kept returning to this new and bizarre question: is there anything that actually is as it seems? Is anything perceptually straightforward? Maybe that’s inherently impossible, because impressions are, by their very nature, cumulative – the sum of all your interactions with and perceptions of things.","author":"Zack Love","tags":["impressions","interactions","life","nature","people","philosophy","society","thoughts","understanding"],"id":24150,"author_id":"Zack+Love"},{"text":"You have to take this with you too,” she said, opening a box and holding up a silver necklace with the Syriac cross (a crucifix with a budding flower shape on each tip) dangling from it. “My mother gave it to me mother, who passed it to me. Now is the right time to give it to you. Not just because you’re leaving and will need something that always connects you to your roots, but also because tonight we remember her.","author":"Zack Love","tags":["belief","christianity","faith","life","memories","syria","tradition","wisdom","women"],"id":38094,"author_id":"Zack+Love"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":89,"pages":9,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}