{"quotes":[{"text":"For a while she cried silently until she tired herself out and the overwhelming feeling of sleepiness overcame her. The room around her was fairly silent, although she wasn’t the only one crying herself to sleep. It was quite common at places like this to hear cries in the dark. There were so many saddened and lonesome souls around her. It was usually at night when they were reminded of just how sad and lonely they actually were.","author":"Jason Medina","tags":["adolescent-unit","amanda","cried","cries","cry","crying","dark","hospital-ward","jason-medina","kings-park","kings-park-psychiatric-center","kings-park-state-hospital","kppc","kpsh","loneliness","lonely","sad","sadness","sleep","sleepy","teenage-girls"],"id":33614,"author_id":"Jason+Medina"},{"text":"Also I could hear Amanda’s voice: Why are you being so weak? Love’s never a fair trade. So Jimmy’s tired of you, so what, there’s guys all over the place like germs, and you can pick them like flowers and toss them away when they’re wilted. But you have to act like you’re having a spectacular time and every day’s a party.","author":"Margaret Atwood","tags":["amanda","flowers","germs","jimmy","love","party","ren"],"id":48148,"author_id":"Margaret+Atwood"},{"text":"By the time she awoke she couldn’t even remember if she had a dream or a nightmare. There had only been a deathlike peace.","author":"Jason Medina","tags":["adolescent-unit","amanda","awoke","building-122","death","deathlike","dream","dreams","group-2","hospital","jason-medina","kings-park","kings-park-psychiatric-center","kings-park-state-hospital","kppc","kpsh","nightmare","peace","psych-ward","sleep"],"id":130966,"author_id":"Jason+Medina"},{"text":"If you find it difficult to get along with your boss, try to reason with him and talk through your differences. If that doesn't work, drive him to suicide and take over the company.","author":"Anthony Rubino Jr.","tags":["advice","amanda","melrose-place","soap-operas","tv","work"],"id":237943,"author_id":"Anthony+Rubino+Jr."},{"text":"We just wanted to see whose dick was in yer mouth. Call it curiosity.","author":"Jason Medina","tags":["amanda","amanda","dick","eve","insults","insults-and-slander","jason-medina","kings-park","sarcasm","tribal-publications","tribal-publications-inc","xlibris"],"id":286514,"author_id":"Jason+Medina"},{"text":"We just wanted to see whose dick was in yer mouth. Call it curiosity.","author":"Jason Medina","tags":["amanda","amanda","dick","eve","insults","insults-and-slander","jason-medina","kings-park","sarcasm","tribal-publications","tribal-publications-inc","xlibris"],"id":286514,"author_id":"Jason+Medina"},{"text":"She thought of the things that lovely young women usually think about when they are relaxing in treetops and unhampered by underwear.","author":"Tom Robbins","tags":["amanda","another-roadside-attraction","tom-robbins","trees","underwear"],"id":286694,"author_id":"Tom+Robbins"},{"text":"I can’t help but think that if she was going to kill herself, she might as well have done it earlier. Perhaps when I was a toddler. Or better yet, an infant. It certainly would have made my life easier. I asked my uncle Hugh (who is not really my uncle, but he is married to the stepsister of my current mother’s brother’s wife and he lives quite closeand he’s a vicar) if I would be going to hell for such a thought. He said no, that frankly, it made a lot of sense to him. I do think I prefer his parish to my own.","author":"Julia Quinn","tags":["amanda","fun","irony","suicide"],"id":300304,"author_id":"Julia+Quinn"},{"text":"Amanda had way too much time to think being at the hospital without any friends. She didn’t want to dwell on her thoughts for too long lest the wrong ones might emerge. She was hoping to forget what happened to her.","author":"Jason Medina","tags":["adolescent-unit","amanda","building-122","forget","group-2","jason-medina","kings-park","kings-park-psychiatric-center","kings-park-state-hospital","kppc","kpsh","memories","mental-illness","thoughts"],"id":328577,"author_id":"Jason+Medina"},{"text":"There’s one last reason why none of us ever tries to escape. There are a few of us who just don’t have anywhere else to go.","author":"Jason Medina","tags":["amanda","amanda","escape","eve","jason-medina","kings-park","kings-park-state-hospital","no-escape","tribal-publications","xlibris"],"id":329748,"author_id":"Jason+Medina"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":14,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}