{"quotes":[{"text":"He relaxed into the dirt, it was all right, he was infantry and the dirt was home. He felt warm liquid all over his left thigh and wondered if he’d peed himself, it didn’t matter, none of it mattered, the stars were out in the blackness overhead and that was where he was going.","author":"Henry V. O'Neil","tags":["acceptance","bleeding","combat","death","loss","military-science-fiction","science-fiction","scifi","war"],"id":63079,"author_id":"Henry+V.+O%27Neil"},{"text":"They took one look at me,And hated my black face.They took one look at me,And decided on my fate.They took one look at me,And forced an unknown fear.They took one look at me,And caused the shed of tears.They took one look at me,And decided I was wrong.They took one look at me,And now I'm singing the slave mans song...","author":"N'Zuri Za Austin","tags":["acknowledge","all-lives-matter","black-lives-matter","bleed","bleeding","blood","conflict","erase","faith","harmony","hope","human","humanity","humanness","injustice","inspiration","invalidate","justice","peace","phrase","poem","pray-for-everyone","pray-for-the-world","quote","rain","raining","silence","silenced","stronger-together","today","together","togetherness","union","unity","voice","words","write"],"id":73171,"author_id":"N%27Zuri+Za+Austin"},{"text":"You can learn things from a heart so bleedingWhen love bargains with deceitful pleading Hours soar from dawn to dawn splitting your time Don’t hear melody from a soundless chime.","author":"Munia Khan","tags":["bargain","bleeding","bleeding-heart","chime","chimes","dark","dawn","deceit","deceitful","heart","heartache","hours","hours-of-work","learn","lies","love","love","melody","pleading","soar","soundless","splitting","time"],"id":98270,"author_id":"Munia+Khan"},{"text":"So I make no effort to hide my pain. I don’t ever put it all on display like this—but for today and all the rest of the days of the trial, I must. My every flinch, every flicker of pain, will bemagnified a hundred times over, then dissected by the pundits and talking heads. But I’m told it’s necessary; the world needs to see me vulnerable and wounded. I cannot appear not to care or to lack remorse, but that removes a crucial component of my self- defense mechanism and leaves me bleeding for all the world to see. I suppose that’s rather the point.","author":"Ann Aguirre","tags":["bleeding","display","pain","remorse","vulnerable","wounded"],"id":108571,"author_id":"Ann+Aguirre"},{"text":"One day I'm a normal person with a normal life,” he said. “The next I'm standing on a street corner in Madrid with a secret phone and a hole in my arm and I'm bleeding all over, hoping I don't get arrested. It was completely crazy. But it seemed like the only way at the time.","author":"Tyler Hamilton","tags":["abnormal","bleeding","crazy","crime","doping","drug-use","fear","insanity","life","normality","secrecy","secret","weird"],"id":156746,"author_id":"Tyler+Hamilton"},{"text":"You're badly wounded.You're bleeding but not cut.You feel like dying but you're not.It’s a Love accident an emotional injury.You are not going to the hospital, aren't you?You don't need medicines and first aides, don't you?You just need to move on. Accept it, forgive and forget it.","author":"Bradley B. Dalina","tags":["acceptance","bleeding","bradley-dalina","broken","emotion","forget","forgiveness","injuries","pain","wound"],"id":164229,"author_id":"Bradley+B.+Dalina"},{"text":"Bleeding for a decadeFor a decade,We bleed like there is no hell but the earthWe bleed like we were born to dare We bleed like there is nothing alive inside.We find a clueAfter a decadeBleeding is just to breathSimply keeps us alive.","author":"Arzum Uzun","tags":["alive","arzum-uzun","bleeding","breaking-up","breathe","broken-heart","broken-hearted","broken-hearts","end-of-the-summer","heart-break","inside","jokes","laughing","love","making-jokes","smiling","summer"],"id":169375,"author_id":"Arzum+Uzun"},{"text":"It is early, early morning. It's that time when it's still dark but you know the day is coming. Blue is bleeding through black. Stars are dying.","author":"Markus Zusak","tags":["black","bleeding","blue","dark","day","dying","mornig","stars","time"],"id":171344,"author_id":"Markus+Zusak"},{"text":"It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes.","author":"Flannery O'Connor","tags":["bleeding","hardship","sacrifice","sweat","work"],"id":182516,"author_id":"Flannery+O%27Connor"},{"text":"It's so trendy, almost bleeding to death. All the cool girls are doing it.","author":"Francine Pascal","tags":["bleeding","cool","ed-fargo","fearless","funny"],"id":231634,"author_id":"Francine+Pascal"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":22,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}