{"quotes":[{"text":"Eventually I’ll stop writing about you and it’ll be bittersweet. Not because I’m not in love with you, but because I’ll just love you.","author":"Dominic Riccitello","tags":["bittersweet","emotions","feelings","future","love","lust","past","perspective","quote","thoughts","truth","unconditional","write","writing"],"id":15143,"author_id":"Dominic+Riccitello"},{"text":"Had I only known my lettersWould be of such importanceI’d empty myself on paperEvery single morning’And it was for such reason,as she read his little stanza,that she decided to stamponefinalletter:‘Every single morningI’d empty myself on paperYou were my greater importanceThat’s why I wrote you letters.","author":"Mie Hansson","tags":["bittersweet","danish-poetry","irony-of-life","letters","love","mie-hansson","poetry","separation","where-pain-thrives"],"id":19190,"author_id":"Mie+Hansson"},{"text":"I do not think I responded immediately, for it took me a moment or two to fully digest these words of Miss Kenton. Moreover, as you might appreciate, their implications were such as to provoke a certain degree of sorrow within me. Indeed- why should I not admit it? - at that moment, my heart was breaking.","author":"Kazuo Ishiguro","tags":["bittersweet","broken-heart","mr-stevens","powerful","rejection","simple"],"id":26875,"author_id":"Kazuo+Ishiguro"},{"text":"I don’t believe he deserves the thousands of poems I’ve written about him, but life doesn’t follow rules. We do things for people who don’t necessarily deserve it. But we liked it, we loved it and fell in love enough to write about it.","author":"Dominic Riccitello","tags":["bittersweet","deserve","falling-in-love","feelings","love","lust","past","poem","poetry","quote","relationship","things-for-you","thoughts","what-you-deserve","write","you"],"id":39181,"author_id":"Dominic+Riccitello"},{"text":"But one day, when Toby is old enough, I will take down a shoe box from a shelf where it is kept, and I will tell him again the story of his sister, Isabel Margaret Cavendish, the girl who came before.","author":"J.P. Delaney","tags":["bittersweet","children","ending","j-p-delaney","mother-and-child","poignant","the-girl-before"],"id":41659,"author_id":"J.P.+Delaney"},{"text":"...I live with regrets - the bittersweet loss of innocence - the red track of the moon upon the lake - the inability to return and do it again...","author":"John Geddes","tags":["bittersweet","lake","loss-of-innocence","moon","regrets","relfection","repetition","wisdom"],"id":45283,"author_id":"John+Geddes"},{"text":"The machines of this place are failing, and the woman and I are here all alone. The perpetual motion engine, as brilliant and beautiful as it is, is running down—nothing lasts forever. But before this little world falls out of the sky there still might be time enough for redemption. There is still time for me to say the words that I should have had the courage to say at the beginning.There is still time, perhaps, for one more miracle.Hello, Miranda.","author":"Dexter Palmer","tags":["beginning","bittersweet","dexter-palmer","ending","hello","impermanence","miracle","nothing-lasts-forever","perpetual-motion","poignant","redemption","sad","science-fiction","steampunk","the-dream-of-perpetual-motion"],"id":54062,"author_id":"Dexter+Palmer"},{"text":"And you find some way to surviveAnd you find out you don't have to be happy at all..To be happy you're alive.","author":"Brian Yorkey","tags":["alice-ripley","bittersweet","broadway","happy","inspirational","life-goes-on","musicals","sad"],"id":60690,"author_id":"Brian+Yorkey"},{"text":"Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.","author":"Joanne Harris","tags":["alive","bittersweet","chocolate","happiness","heart","simplicity","torture"],"id":91591,"author_id":"Joanne+Harris"},{"text":"And the pomegranates,/like memories, are bittersweet/as we huddle together,/remembering just how good/life used to be.","author":"Guadalupe Garcia McCall","tags":["bittersweet","family","memories","sorrow","under-the-mesquite"],"id":98855,"author_id":"Guadalupe+Garcia+McCall"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":72,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}