{"quotes":[{"text":"Maybe the price of forgetting that even in America, even in New York City, when a man from back home is talking, you better listen closely. (Dark City Lights).","author":"Brian Koppelman","tags":["anthologies","life","new-york","new-york-city","people","people-relations","short-stories"],"id":10112,"author_id":"Brian+Koppelman"},{"text":"I heaved into being, came out of the stone, the bricks, and other elements, and took form. (Dark City Lights).","author":"Jerrold Mundis","tags":["anthologies","growth","life","new-york","new-york-city","short-stories"],"id":18195,"author_id":"Jerrold+Mundis"},{"text":"If I'd learned nothing else in my twenty-seven years on this planet, I'd learned that when someone gives you something totally unexpected and undeserved, you don't ask questions.","author":"Jill D. Block","tags":["anthologies","gift-of-life","gifts","learning","life","life-lessons","philosophy","philosophy-of-life","short-stories"],"id":37789,"author_id":"Jill+D.+Block"},{"text":"The main thing about aliens is that they are alien. They feel no responsibility for fulfilling any of your expectations. (Dark City Lights).","author":"Robert Silverberg","tags":["alienation","aliens","anthologies","humanity","life","loneliness","science-fiction","short-stories","solitariness","solitary"],"id":40477,"author_id":"Robert+Silverberg"},{"text":"Everyone loves a goddamned trainwreck, after all.","author":"Carolyn Drake","tags":["anthologies","comedy","funny","humor","humorous","jobs","millenials","short-stories"],"id":56038,"author_id":"Carolyn+Drake"},{"text":"Journey through the Power of the Rainbow represents a condensed compendium of literary efforts from a life dedicated to transforming the themes of injustice, grief, and despair that we all encounter during some unavoidable point of our existence into a sustainable life-affirming poetics of passionate creativity, empowered spiritual vision, and inspired commitment.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["anthologies","collected-works","education-and-reference","famous-","human-rights-day","inspirational","life-journeys","literary-inspiration","literature","literature-about-literature","literature","literature-writing","nanowrimo","national-poetry-month","new-releases","personal-growth","quotation-collections","collections","rainbow","rainbows","savannah--and-poets","transformations"],"id":85026,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"A New York plate that said you die. (Dark City Lights).","author":"Ed Park","tags":["anthologies","death","life","new-york","new-york-city","short-stories"],"id":90327,"author_id":"Ed+Park"},{"text":"While he sweated out a story she bled put a poem. (Dark City Lights).","author":"S. J. Rozan","tags":["anthologies","fiction","life","literary","literature","poems","short-stories","stories","writing"],"id":96674,"author_id":"S.+J.+Rozan"},{"text":"She would keep playing the role of the winner as long as the audience believed her.","author":"Mary Papas","tags":["anthologies","books","flash-fiction","short-stories","suspense","writing"],"id":107789,"author_id":"Mary+Papas"},{"text":"Fate bring two people together and it is love's job to keep them there.","author":"Juvy Ann","tags":["anthologies","contemporary","destiny","fiction-fantasy","humor","inspirational","literary","romance-novel"],"id":113306,"author_id":"Juvy+Ann"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":45,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}