{"quotes":[{"text":"There should be a little gap between you and your friends, though you'll miss their companionship and you'll also miss their disrespect.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["alone","apart","breathing-space","companionship","disrespect","distance","escape","friends","gap","i-miss-you","intermission","interval","isolation","missing","missing-someone","remote","remoteness","reticence"],"id":12807,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"You obey orders, because if you do not, you cannot expect the same from your men. You are part of the wolf, not the whole wolf. I would have thought you had learned that when you were a boy, but it is not the case. A wolf cannot have more than one head, General, or it tears itself apart.","author":"Conn Iggulden","tags":["apart","case","expect","general","head","men","obey","orders","part","same","tears","wolf"],"id":33721,"author_id":"Conn+Iggulden"},{"text":"It is better to lock up your heart with a merciless padlock, than to fall in love with someone who doesn't know what they mean to you.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["abstinence","affair","apart","breakdown","breakup","celibacy","celibate","chaste","cheating","courage","divorce","end","enstrangement","falling-in-love","falling-in-love-with-a-beast","final-decision","key","lock-up","love-affair","mercilless","michael-bassey-johnson","padlock","parting","sea","single"],"id":39485,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"Do not write. I am sad, and want my light put out.Summers in your absence are as dark as a room.I have closed my arms again. They must do without.To knock at my heart is like knocking at a tomb. Do not write!Do not write. Let us learn to die, as best we may.Did I love you? Ask God. Ask yourself. Do you know?To hear that you love me, when you are far away,Is like hearing from heaven and never to go. Do not write!Do not write. I fear you. I fear to remember,For memory holds the voice I have often heard.To the one who cannot drink, do not show water,The beloved one's picture in the handwritten word. Do not write!Do not write those gentle words that I dare not see,It seems that your voice is spreading them on my heart,Across your smile, on fire, they appear to me,It seems that a kiss is printing them on my heart. Do not write!","author":"Louis Simpson","tags":["apart","heartbreak"],"id":43006,"author_id":"Louis+Simpson"},{"text":"Our students didn’t used to come from such damaged families,” Louis mused. “It’s true what they say. This country really is coming apart at the seams.","author":"Paul Russell","tags":["apart","country","damaged","families","seams","students"],"id":58835,"author_id":"Paul+Russell"},{"text":"I have always wanted to give you the world, so I started giving you pieces of the oceans that kept us apart.","author":"Karen Quan","tags":["apart","emotional","far-away","heartache","love","love","ocean","oceans","pieces","pushed-me-further-away","relationships","sad","without-you","world"],"id":59327,"author_id":"Karen+Quan"},{"text":"What you really want to know,” I say, “is how to make sure we all don’t just rip each other apart, right?” The fight earlier is way too fresh in our minds. We are a powder keg; just a spark will blow us apart.","author":"Beth Revis","tags":["across-the-universe","amy-martin","apart","atu-series","blow","bob-martin","fight","shades-of-earth"],"id":88744,"author_id":"Beth+Revis"},{"text":"Only a very foolish person would think that specialized knowledge is important in everything apart from agriculture and farming.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["agriculture","apart","everything","farming","foolish","important","knowledge","money","person","prosperity","reality-of-life","riches","specialized","think","truth-of-life","wealth"],"id":104619,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"The world cannot be full of lead dogs, or the pack would pull itself apart.","author":"Conn Iggulden","tags":["apart","cannot","dogs","full","lead","pack","world"],"id":126729,"author_id":"Conn+Iggulden"},{"text":"Strength is wearing a smile even when you are wailing inside!","author":"Deeba Salim Irfan","tags":["apart","faith","love","separation","strength"],"id":144156,"author_id":"Deeba+Salim+Irfan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":45,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}