{"quotes":[{"text":"When faced with unbridled wildness of reality, dinosaurs fall into fevered delusions of grandeur. In fits of madness, they recreate the world in their own overblown image, bull-dozing the wild and replacing it with a wasteland that reflects their own emptiness. Where there was once the incredibly complex diversity of nature, there is now the dead simplicity of asphalt and concrete.","author":"Curious George Brigade","tags":["anarchism","anarchy","asphalt","concrete","crimethinc","delusions","dinosaurs","emptiness","madness","nature","poltics","reality","wasteland"],"id":6294,"author_id":"Curious+George+Brigade"},{"text":"Shirts and jeans litter the asphalt, the empty fabric limbs askew as if they're attempting to escape. Blood smears Sarah's lips as she struggles against the chest of a dirty looking man with a beard. Terror. Terror is the only word my mind can seize on and it forgets what it means. I forget how to think - to move.","author":"Brenna Ehrlich","tags":["asphalt","assault","beard","blood","chest","city","clothes","creepy","crime","criminal","denim","fabric","friendship","girl","grab","hobo","horror","jeans","lips","mugging","police","rape","sidewalk","teenager","terror"],"id":162205,"author_id":"Brenna+Ehrlich"},{"text":"If you fall from a plane onto a river, and survived, it is luck, but if you fall from a plane onto asphalt ground, and survived, then that is a miracle.","author":"M.F. Moonzajer","tags":["asphalt","atheism","luck","miracle","plane","religion","river","survival"],"id":217387,"author_id":"M.F.+Moonzajer"},{"text":"The road to success is paved with the hot asphalt of failure.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["asphalt","byway","fail","failure","heated","highway","hot","path","pave","paved","pavement","road","success","successful","unsuccessful"],"id":397059,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"The Cottage Diner’s homey lights glowed onto black asphalt which just sucked up the beams to spit out more shadows.","author":"Katherine McIntyre","tags":["asphalt","dark-places","diners","night","shadows"],"id":405137,"author_id":"Katherine+McIntyre"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":5,"pages":1}}