{"quotes":[{"text":"By seeing how small the world is, I realize how capable I am. I can conquer anything. Anywhere. Anyone.","author":"Tawny Lara","tags":["amsterdam","europe","experience","life-lessons","negative","negative-attitude","negative-people","paris","pink-hair","positive-outlook","positive","positive-thinking","positive-thoughts","travel","travel-writing","write-a-book","writer","writer-life","writers","writers-world"],"id":2130,"author_id":"Tawny+Lara"},{"text":"But words are water in Amsterdam, they flood your ears and set the rot, and the church's east corner is crowded.","author":"Jessie Burton","tags":["amsterdam","words"],"id":13184,"author_id":"Jessie+Burton"},{"text":"Love your children, for they are the seeds that will make this city bloom.","author":"Jessie Burton","tags":["amsterdam","golden-age","history","lgbt"],"id":23139,"author_id":"Jessie+Burton"},{"text":".. The smell of canals and cigarette smoke, all the people sitting outside the cafés drinking beer, saying their r's and g's in a way I'd never learn. I missed the future. Obviously I knew even before this recurrance that I'd never grow old with Augustus Waters. But thinking about Lidewij and her boyfriend, I felt robbed. I would probably never again see the ocean from thirty thousand feet above, so far up you can't make out the waves or any boats, so that the ocean is a great and endless monolith. I could imagine it. I could remember it. But I couldn't see it again, and it occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again. That is probably true even if you live to be ninety.","author":"John Green","tags":["amsterdam","future","love","the-fault-in-our-stars","unsated"],"id":34436,"author_id":"John+Green"},{"text":"I feel younger than eighteen but burdened as a eighty-year-old.","author":"Jessie Burton","tags":["amsterdam","golden-age","history","lgbt"],"id":50996,"author_id":"Jessie+Burton"},{"text":"Because, Petronella - it's something in his soul. It's something in his soul and you can't get it out.","author":"Jessie Burton","tags":["amsterdam","golden-age","history","lgbt"],"id":135915,"author_id":"Jessie+Burton"},{"text":"From little seeds great flowers grow.","author":"Jessie Burton","tags":["amsterdam","golden-age","history","lgbt"],"id":154096,"author_id":"Jessie+Burton"},{"text":"We're nothing more than prisoners to your desire.","author":"Jessie Burton","tags":["amsterdam","golden-age","history","lgbt"],"id":173112,"author_id":"Jessie+Burton"},{"text":"Thank you for letting me hijack your wish', I said.'Thank you for wearing that dress which is like whoa,' he said.","author":"John Green","tags":["amsterdam","augustus-waters","hazel-grace","wish"],"id":185363,"author_id":"John+Green"},{"text":"There are horizons through the brickwork, you wait and see.","author":"Jessie Burton","tags":["amsterdam","golden-age","history","lgbt"],"id":198423,"author_id":"Jessie+Burton"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":26,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}