{"quotes":[{"text":"Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.","author":"Charles Darwin","tags":["blushing","embarassment","emotions","humanity"],"id":13265,"author_id":"Charles+Darwin"},{"text":"The poet believed that 'Beauty' first entered the world not at its creation, nor with the first garden, the first sunrise, the birth of the first man and woman and their first sexual act. The poet believed that 'Beauty' entered the world the day the first child blushed.","author":"Roman Payne","tags":["adam-and-eve","beauty","blush","blushing","childhood","childlike","childlikeness","children","eden","innocence","payne","roman-payne","romance"],"id":21902,"author_id":"Roman+Payne"},{"text":"He had been searching for it his entire life. He had devoted himself to poetry to find it. Now, in the middle of his life, he found it. It was in the face of the love of his life, his daughter. She who had never blushed before, now blushed. And in that blushing, he knew, was the existence of God. That was the day her father learned what God was. God was pure beauty, God was his daughter’s face when she blushed.","author":"Roman Payne","tags":["belief-in-god","blush","blushing","blushing-girl","dad","dad-and-daughters","daddy","daughter","daughters","existence-of-god","father-and-daughter","fathers-and-daughters","parental-love","parents","parents-and-children","parents-and-kids","poetry","from-novel"],"id":70955,"author_id":"Roman+Payne"},{"text":"Rini moved in to kiss him, but on his cheek. She gave him two pecks on his right cheek and one more on his left, which caused him to blush. “Three kisses, huh?”She beamed at him and nodded when she explained, “Fo’ Faith, Hope, an’ Charity.","author":"Jason Medina","tags":["a-ghost-in-new-orleans","and-charity","beamed","blush","blushing","charity","faith","for-faith","hope","jason-medina","kiss","kisses","love","ray-durante","rini","romance","superstition","superstitious","three-kisses","tribal-publications","tribal-publications-inc","voo-doo","voodoo"],"id":111309,"author_id":"Jason+Medina"},{"text":"Your gazeacrossmy cheeksturned theminto strawberry fields.","author":"Sanober Khan","tags":["blush","blushing","cheeks","falling-in-love","gaze","gazing","hopeless-romantic","love","magic","poetry","poetry","romantic","strawberry"],"id":179804,"author_id":"Sanober+Khan"},{"text":"I blushed. You haven't seen a bald man in his sixties blush? Oh, it happens, just as it does to a hairy, spotty fifteen-year-old. And because it's rarer, it sends the blusher tumbling back to that time when life felt like nothing more than one long sequence of embarrassments.","author":"Julian Barnes","tags":["blushing","memory","old-age"],"id":199447,"author_id":"Julian+Barnes"},{"text":"Yawns are not the only infectious things out there besides germs.Giggles can spread from person to person.So can blushing.But maybe the most powerful infectious thing is the act of speaking the truth.","author":"Vera Nazarian","tags":["blush","blushing","contagious","free-speech","giggle","giggles","motivation","motivational","speaking","speaking-out","speech","truth","voice","yawn","yawns"],"id":240167,"author_id":"Vera+Nazarian"},{"text":"What’s it like, for you to sense me?” she asked. Her eyes were wide now, emerald green in the lamplight and peering into Héyowan.He blushed, taken off guard. ‘Like I’m not alone,’ he almost said.","author":"B.T. Lowry","tags":["blushing","eyes","love","sensing"],"id":313121,"author_id":"B.T.+Lowry"},{"text":"[Lily] 'Petunia's hair is too curly to braid,' She said conversationally. Oliver wasn't sure why, but that was what finally made him blush.","author":"Jessica Day George","tags":["blushing","cute","lily","oliver","petunia","shy"],"id":334380,"author_id":"Jessica+Day+George"},{"text":"...Certain people have good, ordinary blood and others have an animated, lively sort of blood that comes to the face quickly.","author":"Seneca","tags":["blood","blushing","seneca"],"id":389375,"author_id":"Seneca"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":10,"pages":1}}