{"quotes":[{"text":"You battled monsters. You sweat and cried your way to this one prolific moment where you finally realize that those dark days and sleepless nights were pre-requisites to your becoming.","author":"Jennifer Elisabeth","tags":["advice","battle","big-sister","book","born-ready","cry","fiction","girl-power","girls","growing-up","guidance","inspiration","life","lit","literature","little-monster","love","mentor","monster","nonfiction","novel","personal-purpose","self-esteem","self-help","sweat","tears","teens","xjennifer-elisabeth","young-adult"],"id":1539,"author_id":"Jennifer+Elisabeth"},{"text":"Although many things may still need to happen before you identify what your exact work will be, I know that every single person whom you’re meeting and every experience that you’re having is necessary to you discovering your purpose. They are points on a map leading you to the moment where a match will finally be lit and you will be able to see through the darkness.","author":"Jennifer Elisabeth","tags":["advice","big-sister","book","born-ready","fiction","girl-power","girls","growing-up","guidance","inspiration","jennifer-elisabeth","life","lit","literature","love","mentor","nonfiction","novel","personal-purpose","self-esteem","self-help","teens","young-adult"],"id":11283,"author_id":"Jennifer+Elisabeth"},{"text":"Despite how lonely or broken down you might feel, we need you with us helping to make the world better, kinder and safer, especially for the little girls coming up.","author":"Jennifer Elisabeth","tags":["advice","big-sister","book","born-ready","children","fiction","girl-power","girls","growing-up","guidance","inspiration","jennifer-elisabeth","kids","life","lit","literature","little-girls","loneliness","love","mentor","nonfiction","novel","personal-purpose","self-esteem","self-help","teens","young-adult"],"id":11311,"author_id":"Jennifer+Elisabeth"},{"text":"Please… Whoever you are, whatever you are… I believe in you even though I don’t completely understand you. I feel you around me even though I can’t exactly describe what I’m feeling. Sometimes things happen to me and I know that you’re there and I’m humbled by the lack of coincidence that exists in the world. Whatever you want from me, it’s yours — just please help me. You know how I get when I lose control, and I find myself constantly being pulled back there these days.","author":"Jennifer Elisabeth","tags":["anxiety","art","beach","born-ready","cape-cod","coming-of-age","constellations","depression","destiny","fate","friends","girls","growing","growing-up","healing","hope","inspiration","jennifer-elisabeth","learning","life","love","lovers","ocean","pray","prayer","red-thread","red-thread-of-destiny","red-thread-of-fate","self-acceptance","self-love","self-reflection","soul","soul-mates","stars","teenagers","teens","time","universe","wish"],"id":17824,"author_id":"Jennifer+Elisabeth"},{"text":"I ruin everything. I think that a bullet must have passed through my heart when I was very young, causing me to bleed out slowly, over things and people and every white surface that I’d ever come across.","author":"Jennifer Elisabeth","tags":["anxiety","art","beach","born-ready","cape-cod","coming-of-age","constellations","depression","destiny","fate","friends","girls","growing","growing-up","healing","hope","inspiration","jennifer-elisabeth","learning","life","love","lovers","ocean","pray","prayer","red-thread","red-thread-of-destiny","red-thread-of-fate","self-acceptance","self-love","self-reflection","soul","soul-mates","stars","teenagers","teens","time","universe","wish"],"id":18859,"author_id":"Jennifer+Elisabeth"},{"text":"I wish that love could be broken down the way it breaks me down.","author":"Jennifer Elisabeth","tags":["anxiety","art","beach","born-ready","cape-cod","coming-of-age","constellations","depression","destiny","fate","friends","girls","growing","growing-up","healing","heart-break","hope","inspiration","jennifer-elisabeth","learning","life","love","lovers","ocean","pray","prayer","red-thread","red-thread-of-destiny","red-thread-of-fate","self-acceptance","self-love","self-reflection","soul","soul-mates","stars","teenagers","teens","time","universe","wish"],"id":21798,"author_id":"Jennifer+Elisabeth"},{"text":"I write so I don’t call you.","author":"Jennifer Elisabeth","tags":["books","born-ready","breaking-up","breakup","call","jennifer-elisabeth","lit","literature","love","phone","quote","relationship","relationships","write"],"id":23708,"author_id":"Jennifer+Elisabeth"},{"text":"I look out into the water and up deep into the stars. I beg the sparkling lanterns of light to cure me of myself — my past and the kaleidoscope of mistakes, failures and wrong turns that have stacked unbearable regret upon my shoulders.","author":"Jennifer Elisabeth","tags":["anxiety","art","beach","born-ready","cape-cod","coming-of-age","constellations","depression","destiny","failure","fate","friends","girls","growing","growing-up","healing","hope","inspiration","jennifer-elisabeth","learning","life","love","lovers","mistakes","ocean","past","pray","prayer","red-thread","red-thread-of-destiny","red-thread-of-fate","regret","self-acceptance","self-love","self-reflection","soul","soul-mates","stars","teenagers","teens","time","universe","wish"],"id":45279,"author_id":"Jennifer+Elisabeth"},{"text":"In the old days, when travelers would get lost, they would follow the stars and I love that idea. I wish that I could rely on something as simple and magnificent as a star for all of my aching questions.","author":"Jennifer Elisabeth","tags":["anxiety","art","beach","born-ready","cape-cod","coming-of-age","constellations","depression","destiny","fate","friends","girls","growing","growing-up","healing","hope","inspiration","jennifer-elisabeth","learning","life","love","lovers","ocean","pray","prayer","red-thread","red-thread-of-destiny","red-thread-of-fate","self-acceptance","self-love","self-reflection","soul","soul-mates","stars","teenagers","teens","time","universe","wish"],"id":46774,"author_id":"Jennifer+Elisabeth"},{"text":"I kept waiting for the part where I’d finally know who I was — some flashing, neon moment of relief, but it never came.","author":"Jennifer Elisabeth","tags":["anxiety","art","beach","born-ready","cape-cod","coming-of-age","constellations","depression","destiny","fate","friends","girls","growing","growing-up","healing","hope","identity","inspiration","jennifer-elisabeth","learning","life","love","lovers","ocean","pray","prayer","red-thread","red-thread-of-destiny","red-thread-of-fate","self-acceptance","self-love","self-reflection","soul","soul-mates","stars","teenagers","teens","time","universe","wish"],"id":47578,"author_id":"Jennifer+Elisabeth"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":78,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}