{"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":"A Jewish woman in exile in the 1930s is an antihero.","author":"Núria Añó","tags":["1930","1930-s","1930s","antihero","antiheroes","antiheroine","antiheros","exile","exiled","exiles","exilio","feminism","feminist","feminist-memoir","historical","historical-perspective","history","history-of-religion","history-of-the-united-states","history-repeating-itself","humanity","jew","jewish","jewish-diaspora","jewish-identity","jewish-question","jews","nazi","nazi-german-1945","nazi-germany","nazis","nazism","past","politics","social","society","woman","woman","woman","woman-s-character","woman-s-charm","woman-s-secrets","woman-s-strength","woman-to-woman","womanhood","womanism","women","women-and-men","women-empowerment","women","women-s-fiction","women-s-inspirational","women-s-rights","women-s-strength","women-writers","womens-rights"],"id":183144,"author_id":"N%C3%BAria+A%C3%B1%C3%B3"},{"text":"I am not the heroine of this story.And I'm not trying to be cute. It's the truth. I'm diagnosed borderline and seriously fucked-up. I hold grudges. I bottle my hate until it ferments into poison, and then I get high off the fumes. I'm completely dysfunctional and that's the way I like it, so don't expect a character arc where I finally find Redemption, Growth, and Change, or learn How to Forgive Myself and Others.","author":"Leah Raeder","tags":["antihero","antiheroine","fourth-wall","mental-illness"],"id":251585,"author_id":"Leah+Raeder"},{"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 may think of ourselves as static anti-heroes, but in reality we're dynamic protagonists just waiting for our courage to kick in.","author":"Justin Alcala","tags":["antagonist","antihero","hope","horror","life","life-lessons","protagonist","quotes","to-live-by","the-world","writing","writing-life"],"id":390888,"author_id":"Justin+Alcala"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":5,"pages":1}}