{"quotes":[{"text":"Do you remember back at the hotel when you promised that if we lived, you’d get dressed up in a nurse’s outfit and give me a sponge bath?' asked Jace.'It was Simon who promised you the sponge bath.'As soon as I’m back on my feet, handsome,' said Simon.'I knew we should have left you a rat.","author":"Cassandra Clare","tags":["bath","clary-fray","humor","jace-wayland","simon-lewis"],"id":54229,"author_id":"Cassandra+Clare"},{"text":"Reading poetry is like undressing before a bath. You don't undress out of fear that your clothes will become wet. You undress because you want the water to touch you. You want to completely immerse yourself in the feeling of the water and to emerge anew.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["analogy","anew","art","bath","change","clothes","creative-arts","emerge","fear","immerse","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","life","metamorphosis","metaphor","novelist","poem","poesia","poetess","poetry","poetry","quote","read","reading","reading","soak","touch","transcend","transcendence","transform","undress","water","wet","write","writing"],"id":125712,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"I can't help suspecting, that there is, or may be some regurgitation from the bath into the cistern of the pump. In that case, what a felicate beveridge is quaffed by the drinkers; medicated with the sweat and the dirt, and dandriff; and the abominable of various kinds, from twenty different diseased bodies, parboiling in the kettle below.","author":"Tobias Smollett","tags":["18th-century","bath","classics","humour"],"id":156629,"author_id":"Tobias+Smollett"},{"text":"Whenever they are given the choice, some people choose a bath over a shower; they, too, would like to do their bit to waste water.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["bath","bathe","hygiene","save","save-water","shower","waste","water"],"id":169045,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"You took a bath without me?'I smiled to myself at the accusation in his voice.","author":"Katie MacAlister","tags":["accusation","bath","comedy","love","vampires"],"id":174228,"author_id":"Katie+MacAlister"},{"text":"Have you killed me, false thief?","author":"Chaucer Geoffrey","tags":["bath","brute","canterbury","fight","fighting","marriage"],"id":180456,"author_id":"Chaucer+Geoffrey"},{"text":"I didn't like Dali: now, like you, I do. Like you, I began to drink my Coke with a pinch of salt . Like you, I stopped bothering about ironed clothes. Like you, I sit with a dictionary while reading the papers. Like you, I sit on the compound wall after a bath.","author":"Sachin Kundalkar","tags":["bath","coke","dali","drink","like","love","person","salt","wall"],"id":220254,"author_id":"Sachin+Kundalkar"},{"text":"Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.","author":"Woody Allen","tags":["home","wife","bath "],"id":237705,"author_id":"Woody+Allen"},{"text":"LOOKINGThe world goes by, and what have I to do with it? I merely observe how the geese stretch their necks towards the orange rim of sky. I watch how light fades and children make their way home, hungry and tired. The bushes outside become ghosts while baths run and kitchen windows steam up with the cooking. This is the smell of our home, where I have a place in the wrinkled hours making beds and hugging boys awake. This is the sound of the house where I feel out lives into words, translate ragged nights and days into something whole, or try to. You may look if you wish..... The world goes by, and what have you or I to do with it, except perhaps for looking... ?","author":"Jay Woodman","tags":["bath","bed","children","home","house","kitchen","look","looking","watch","world"],"id":283124,"author_id":"Jay+Woodman"},{"text":"She is always pretending she loves me, but look at her now. Am I in her thoughts? Is there a tender look in her eyes? Is she dreaming of me as she walks along the streets?","author":"Sherwood Anderson","tags":["bath","dreaming","love"],"id":283705,"author_id":"Sherwood+Anderson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":19,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}