{"quotes":[{"text":"Things becomes invisible at the very moment I refuse to grant them importance. And while I am utterly ashamed to admit it, many of the most important things in my life are invisible.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["abandon","abandonment","ashamed","deny","diminish","foolish","foolishness","ignorance","ignore","importance","invisible","reject","stupid","stupidity","valuable","value","wisdom","wise"],"id":14403,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Sadly, in too many cases surrender is having been ‘outrun’ by fear rather than having ‘run out’ of heart.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["abandon","abandonment","defeat","defeated","desire","drive","fear","fearful","frightened","heart","passion","passionate","retreat","scare","scared","surrender","surrendering","withdrawal"],"id":31177,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Night has settled over Paris.The streets have cleared of the crowds, and the city has been lit up. I set my book down, deciding to go for a walk. The Eiffel Tower is only a few blocks away. Now that there aren't many people out, I can walk there without having to fight my way through mobs of gawking tourists.","author":"Ashley Earley","tags":["abandon","abandoned","alone","alone-in-paris","art","artist","bookworm","bridge","car-crash","cute","cute-guys","cute-moment","cute-things-guys-say","depression","draw","eiffel-tower","hostile","hot","lock-bridge","paris","paris-at-night","reader","romance","romance-humor","romance-novel","romance-novels","scared-of","scared-young-love","sketch","sketch-artist","suicide","teen","teen-book","teen-contemporary-romance","teen-fiction","teen-romance","water","writer","writers-life","young-adult","young-adult-book","young-adult-contemporary","young-adult-contemporary-romance","young-adult-fiction","young-adult-romance"],"id":39639,"author_id":"Ashley+Earley"},{"text":"If we abandon marriage, we abandon the family.","author":"Michael Enzi","tags":["marriage","abandon "],"id":56790,"author_id":"Michael+Enzi"},{"text":"To abandon the child ‘within’ means that the adult ‘without’ will be an adult in name only. And frankly, I can only name a handful of things that are that tragic.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["abandon","abandonment","adult","adulthood","child","development","growth","immaturity","inner-child","loss","losses","maturation","mature","maturity","personal-development","personal-growth","stunt","stunted","tragedy","tragic","unfortunate"],"id":64747,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"He drinks his coffee tentatively, glancing at me every few seconds, watching me. Every time he glances in my direction, I quickly turn away though he obviously knows I'm watching him. I know he's wondering why I'm staring at him, but he doesn't ask.I finally take a sip of coffee, set the mug back on the table, and voice what's on my mind, 'I want to draw you.","author":"Ashley Earley","tags":["abandon","abandoned","alone","alone-in-paris","art","artist","bookworm","bridge","car-crash","cute","cute-guys","cute-moment","cute-things-guys-say","depression","draw","eiffel-tower","hostile","hot","lock-bridge","paris","paris-at-night","reader","romance","romance-humor","romance-novel","romance-novels","scared-of","scared-young-love","sketch","sketch-artist","suicide","teen","teen-book","teen-contemporary-romance","teen-fiction","teen-romance","water","writer","writers-life","young-adult","young-adult-book","young-adult-contemporary","young-adult-contemporary-romance","young-adult-fiction","young-adult-romance"],"id":66813,"author_id":"Ashley+Earley"},{"text":"With God, being lost is nothing more than an idea that never has and never will be anything more than an idea.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["abandon","abandoned","assured","beliefs","confidence","faith","god","idea","ideas","longing","lost","misbeliefs","misguided","misled","search","searching","wander","wandering"],"id":67407,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"By choosing comfort we are in the very same decision choosing to miss every great thing in life, and that thought should be anything but comforting.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["abandon","comfort","comforting","decision","decisions","familiar","familiarity","fear","fearful","forfeit","lose","mediocre","mediocrity","miss","passive"],"id":75139,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"I'm being pulled under - father and farther from the surface. My lungs continue to scream for air. Panic is building inside me, threatening to combust. I can't break free.Help! I can't break free!I open my mouth to scream.","author":"Ashley Earley","tags":["abandon","abandoned","alone","alone-in-paris","art","artist","bookworm","bridge","car-crash","cute","cute-guys","cute-moment","cute-things-guys-say","depression","draw","eiffel-tower","hostile","hot","lock-bridge","paris","paris-at-night","reader","romance","romance-humor","romance-novel","romance-novels","scared-of","scared-young-love","sketch","sketch-artist","suicide","teen","teen-book","teen-contemporary-romance","teen-fiction","teen-romance","water","writer","writers-life","young-adult","young-adult-book","young-adult-contemporary","young-adult-contemporary-romance","young-adult-fiction","young-adult-romance"],"id":81811,"author_id":"Ashley+Earley"},{"text":"Apathy is giving up when we need to get up.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["abandon","apathy","attitude","commit","commitment","determination","determined","focused","fortitude","get-up","give-up","mediocre","mediocrity","retreat","strength","stubborn","surrender","tenacious"],"id":86174,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":56,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}