{"quotes":[{"text":"I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["acceptance","antagonist","anti-hero","antihero","art","artist","bad","bad-guy","discernment","judgment","misunderstood","painting","perception","perspective","understanding","villain"],"id":213,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"While gently pushing her towards the dressing room, Lazarus ventured, 'Can I ask you something kind of personal?'Pulling her shirt over her head behind the curtain, and holding her hand out for the corset, she replied, 'Anything for you, Laz.'How are you still friends with him?'Can you hook this thing?' Holding the corset on her stomach, Lazarus peeked through the curtain, fingers deftly snapping the twenty hook-and-eye latches. 'He saved my life. There are a million reasons to hate him, but there are a million and one reasons to forgive him for his faults.'Twisting to look in the mirror, adjusting her breasts in the tight silk, she continued, 'He'll say the worst thing at the worst possible time, except every once in awhile, he says the one most perfect thing that just makes you want to cry from happiness. He knows the exact way you need to be touched at any moment, in any mood, like he's fucking telepathic. He'll make you want to scream when he ignores you, but then you find out he knows your favorite color, your favorite meal, what movie makes you cry and he can list every little thing in the entire world that you hate. And mostly? Well,' Turning to face Lazarus and strike a pose, 'I just can't fucking stop.","author":"Shannon Noelle Long","tags":["anti-hero","breakups","carolina-skye","friendship","jesus-hollywood","lazarus","love","lovers"],"id":49196,"author_id":"Shannon+Noelle+Long"},{"text":"Outcasts, callused from being in exile for too long, learn to thrive on being the hated; the attention and infamy of our actions fuel us to become antiheroes. Too often do we forget: we risk self-destruction if we fail to follow what we know is right; our talents too often become misplaced, misdirected, misguided from what could have been something wonderful.","author":"Mike Norton","tags":["anti-hero","destruction","exile","hate","outcast","talent","wonderful"],"id":67872,"author_id":"Mike+Norton"},{"text":"I am. That has not changed. I am the villain. I am the one you should curse, not praise. I am no hero. Heroes look to fix what lies before them and head home after the leak is patched. A villain will remain poking and prodding his achievement long after they've won. Evil never sleeps. It's always looking for more ways to expand on its conquest.","author":"Charles Lee","tags":["anti-hero","conquest","evil","hero","villian"],"id":82289,"author_id":"Charles+Lee"},{"text":"To spare Cloyce's victims further indignities to their memory, I must be a scourge. To prevent others from perhaps being infected by Cloyce's depravity by watching him at work, I must be a scourge. To prevent time management technology from falling into the hands of authorities who, if not already corrupt, would be corrupted by it, I must be a scourge.Scourges aren't heroes.I had never imagined myself to be a hero, but never had I imagined I would be this.Scourges transgress against social and sacred order.A scourge went into darker territory than that. A scourge was not compelled to kill by mental imbalance or emotional confusion or selfish desire. A scourge made a carefully reasoned decision to kill in numbers that exceeded what was absolutely necessary to ensure self-preservation and the defense of the innocent. Even if he killed for the right reason, he was in rebellion against social order and commanding authority.Who scourges will be scourged. In fulfilling this dark role in Roseland, I would bring about my own death.Yet I knew I would not retreat from my decision.","author":"Dean Koontz","tags":["anti-hero","killing","murder","scourge"],"id":89258,"author_id":"Dean+Koontz"},{"text":"Oftentimes in reality, the genius is in the position of the antihero. Neither the good guys nor the bad guys really trust him because his truth is universal.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["anti-hero","genius","misunderstood","reality","superheroes","truth","universal"],"id":262460,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"The theistic philosopher has a tendency to devalue insufficient worldviews, ideologies, and quite often common sense for the greater good, and in such cases, one should not be discouraged when seen as a bad guy. If he stresses over man's perception of a righteous heart, then he has given his heart to man.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["antagonist","anti-hero","antihero","apologetics","bad","challenge","common-sense","devalue","discourage","god","good","greater-good","heart","hero","ideology","insufficient","man","misunderstood","negative","negativity","perception","philosophers","philosophy","positive","positivity","protagonist","righteous","righteousness","stand-up","stress","sufficient","theism","theology","truth","ultimate","value","villain","worldview"],"id":290515,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"We’re the villains you root for in the story.","author":"Melissa de la Cruz","tags":["anti-hero","anti-heroes","bad","evil","good","story","villians"],"id":293910,"author_id":"Melissa+de+la+Cruz"},{"text":"I steal from the rich to give to myself.","author":"Robert Thier","tags":["anti-hero","historical-romance","humor","rake","robber-barons"],"id":385751,"author_id":"Robert+Thier"},{"text":"Riley, you're the Devil, and I'd gladly sell you my soul, if you didn't already own it...' - Luc Wade.","author":"Bec McMaster","tags":["alpha-male","anti-hero","paranormal","romance","shifters"],"id":429559,"author_id":"Bec+McMaster"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":12,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}