{"quotes":[{"text":"You know how some people develop addictions to manage their overwhelming emotions? Some people become alcoholics, coke fiends, potheads, pill-poppers, over-eaters, sex addicts or meth-heads. Well, Ann seemed to have a similar addiction to anger, he concluded. Feeling angry served the dual purpose of keeping others at a safe distance while drowning out all other competing and overwhelming emotions.","author":"Sage Steadman","tags":["addictions","anger","emotions","young-adult"],"id":3903,"author_id":"Sage+Steadman"},{"text":"You mean something like ‘truth or dare’? I haven’t played that in a long time.” She didn’t think he would ever get himself entangled in a game like that, but it was addictive, a compromising icebreaker featuring all the strategy of Poker, minus the cards, mixed with a dash of danger from Russian Roulette, without the revolver.","author":"E.A. Bucchianeri","tags":["addictions","compromise-humor","danger","gamblers","getting-to-know-someone","interesting-thought","life","revelations","risk","truth-or-dare"],"id":9510,"author_id":"E.A.+Bucchianeri"},{"text":"Cutting down a wall, the wall sawyer could feel the tension in a home ease and something windy rush in circles round her feet. It was addictive, each a sweet victory of art. The tumbling motion of a falling wall was like a volcanic eruption fading into a mountain of roses. The wall sawyer felt a loving animosity toward walls. “You must pay attention to your obsessions, where life and love intersect,” she told the little queen.","author":"Meia Geddes","tags":["addictions","art","life","love","obsessions","roses","walls"],"id":45979,"author_id":"Meia+Geddes"},{"text":"In the beginning, the taste of power is sweet, savored on the tongue, like fine wine. It whispers promises in your ear and pretends to be your friend. It is easy to become addicted to this feeling.","author":"Rahma Krambo","tags":["addiction","addictions","power"],"id":64639,"author_id":"Rahma+Krambo"},{"text":"Doing something once can be addicting. Doing it twice is admitting it.","author":"Paul Morabito","tags":["addiction","addictions","admittance","admitting","admitting-faultstting-faults","obsessed","obsession","philosophical","philosphy"],"id":72241,"author_id":"Paul+Morabito"},{"text":"Most of our addictions [shopping, food, bad relationships] as women flare up when we feel that we are not loved or sought after.","author":"John Eldredge","tags":["addictions","fought","love","sought","woman","womanhood","women"],"id":122259,"author_id":"John+Eldredge"},{"text":"There are casualties in war. Those who don’t make it back to a place of sound hopes and dreams. Some take on their demons alone. They are deceived into fearlessness and trampled by the hooves of their oppressor. Besides intervention, there is little justice for the thousands-upon-thousands hacked to pieces all around us. How dare we try to take life to the next level. Instead of merely protecting ourselves or scrounging up our next meal, we have the audacity to hope for something more—a witness for our lives who will survive alongside us.","author":"Christopher Hawke","tags":["addiction","addictions","addicts","casualties","deception","dreams","fear","fearlessness","hope","hopes-and-dreams","intervention","survival","war","witness"],"id":125675,"author_id":"Christopher+Hawke"},{"text":"Victoria was so wrong about me. I expected them to put me first, above everyone else.I am selfish. I am weak. I am bad.And I need Jasper. I need him like I need air to breathe. No—somehow, that cliché doesn’t seem quite right. He’s more like a shot of whiskey after a hard day. A burst of heroin in my burning veins.He is my drug. My ambrosia.I can’t live without him.","author":"S.L. Stacy","tags":["addictions","dark-fantasy","greek-mythology","paranormal-romance"],"id":187352,"author_id":"S.L.+Stacy"},{"text":"The easiest thing is to say no. What's not so easy is telling yourself to stop.","author":"Alix","tags":["addictions","choices","life"],"id":235928,"author_id":"Alix"},{"text":"It's the soul that's starving, not the body.","author":"Shoshana Kobrin","tags":["addictions","eating-disorders","food","soul","weight"],"id":236551,"author_id":"Shoshana+Kobrin"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":26,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}