{"quotes":[{"text":"God’s call upon your life is not an accident.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["accident","calling","fulfillment","god","life","purpose"],"id":1885,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"When the expected occurred, never panic, by keep calming, you gain control over the situation.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["accident","adversity","calm","challenges","courage","death","depression","despair","determination","disappointment","dont-worry","dying","emotional-pain","fears","fighting-spirit","healing","healthy-habits","healthy-lifestyle","hope","inner-strength","inspirational","keep-calm","life-and-living","negative-thought","never-give-up","obstacles","overcomer","overcoming-adversity","persistent-actions","positive-outlook","positive-thinking","psychological","quotes","self-help","self-motivation","situation","strength-and-courage","strength-of-will","stress","therapy","uplifting","wise-words"],"id":2636,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Do our dreams carry messages from the great beyond, sent by the people we have lost, or are they a reflection of our desperation and wishful thinking?","author":"Zeina Kassem","tags":["accident","arab","beirut","death","dreams","grief","lebanon","life","middle-eastern","missing","missing-someone","mother","motherhood","pain","suffering"],"id":14411,"author_id":"Zeina+Kassem"},{"text":"I watched life and death unfold like a dance on the side of that road. My son was born with a bloodstained face and he died with blood from the accident covering that same face.","author":"Zeina Kassem","tags":["accident","arab","blood","dance","death","life","middle-eastern","pain","suffering"],"id":36338,"author_id":"Zeina+Kassem"},{"text":"This was his first trip on the Ossifar Distana, his first real splash in life. Look what it got him. Mister Smiff liked anonymity. He kept a low profile, often traveling under assumed names, claiming to be anything from a banker to a (very) successful life insurance salesman. He’d never broken the law, at least not irreparably. He was quite generous, well liked, sponsoring many charities anonymously – which is why it was so surprising to find him floating face down in the private spa in his apartment, murdered. He had been murdered, unless it was a freak shaving accident. Those old razors weren’t called cut-throats for nothing. Yikes.","author":"Christina Engela","tags":["accident","anonymity","anonymously","apartment","charities","claiming","distana","for","freak","generous","he-d","him","in","irreparably","it","law","life","liked","look","murdered","names","never","not","nothing","often","old","ossifar","profile","razors","salesman","so","successful","surprising","the","this","to","traveling","unless","very","well","what","yikes"],"id":40758,"author_id":"Christina+Engela"},{"text":"Rarely is success an accident, but when it is, rarely does it last.","author":"John Hawkins","tags":["accident","last","success","time"],"id":40981,"author_id":"John+Hawkins"},{"text":"Before your mother's conception of you, God knew you; before His ‪consecration of you, He had up set your assignments right! You are not an accident!‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["accident","assign","assignment","birth","conception","consecrate","consecration","food-for-thought","god","i-knew-you","in-my-mother-s-womb","israelmore-ayivor","jehovah","mama","mother","mum","purpose","ransom","right","salvage","save","womb"],"id":42307,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Pudge/Colonel: 'I am sorry that I have not talked to you before. I am not staying for graduation. I leave for Japan tomorrow morning. For a long time, I was mad at you. The way you cut me out of everything hurt me, and so I kept what I knew to myself. But then even after I wasn't mad anymore, I still didn't say anything, and I don't even really know why. Pudge had that kiss, I guess. And I had this secret. You've mostly figured this out, but the truth is that I saw her that night, I'd stayed up late with Lara and some people, and then I was falling asleep and I heard her crying outside my back window. It was like 3:15 that morning, maybe, amd I walked out there and saw her walking through the soccer field. I tried to talk to her, but she was in a hurry. She told me that her mother was dead eight years that day, and that she always put flowers on her mother's grave on the anniversary but she forgot that year. She was out there looking for flowers, but it was too early-too wintry. That's how I knew about January 10. I still have no idea whether it was suicide. She was so sad, and I didn't know what to say or do. I think she counted on me to be the one person who would always say and do the right things to help her, but I couldn't. I just thought she was looking for flowers. I didn't know she was going to go. She was drunk just trashed drunk, and I really didn't think she would drive or anything. I thought she would just cry herself to sleep and then drive to visit her mom the next day or something. She walked away, and then I heard a car start. I don't know what I was thinking. So I let her go too. And I'm sorry. I know you loved her. It was hard not to.' Takumi.","author":"John Green","tags":["accident","anniversary-death","girlfriend","letter","love-alaska-young","mother","mother-s-death","pudge-colonel","secret","takumi","truth-and-lies"],"id":45151,"author_id":"John+Green"},{"text":"Better my right hand should have been cut off. Go know I was setting in motion events that would lead to the ruin of one of the few truly good men I ever met.","author":"Mordecai Richler","tags":["accident","avoidable","curse","death","depressing","doomed","friend","loss","preventable","regret"],"id":45653,"author_id":"Mordecai+Richler"},{"text":"They were shot with a shotgun and put in garbage bags and thrown under a bridge,' Shrake said. 'If it wasn't murder, it was a really weird accident.","author":"John Sandford","tags":["accident","murder","sarcasm","shotgun"],"id":48944,"author_id":"John+Sandford"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":84,"pages":9,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}