{"quotes":[{"text":"If Levi were a dog, he'd be a golden retriever. If he were a game, he'd be a Ping-Pong, incessant and bouncing and light.","author":"Rainbow Rowell","tags":["boyfriends","boys","fangirl","rainbow-rowell"],"id":25483,"author_id":"Rainbow+Rowell"},{"text":"March 12Dear Stargirl,  Hey, you're a big girl now. Stop being such a baby. You think you're the only one who's ever lost a boyfriend? Boyfriends are a dime a dozen. You want to talk loss, look at all the loss around you. How about the man in the red and yellow plaid scarf? He lost Grace. BELOVED WIFE. I'll bet they were married over 50 years. You barely had 50 days with Leo. And you have the gall to be sad in the same world as that man. Betty Lou. She's lost the confidence to leave her house. Look at you. Have you ever stopped to appreciate the simple ability to open your front door and step outside? And Alvina the floor sweeper-she hates herself, and it seems she's got plenty of company. All she's losing is her childhood, her future, a worldful of people who will never be her friends. How would you like to trade places with her? Oh yes, lets not forget the footshuffling guy at the stone piles. Moss-green pom-pom. What did he say to you? 'Are you looking for me?' It seems like he hasn't lost much, has he? Only...HIMSELF!  Now look at you, sniveling like a baby over some immature kid in Arizona who didn't know what a prize he had, who tried to remake you into somebody else, who turned his back to you and left you to the wolves, who hijacked your heart and didn't even ask you to the Ocotillo Ball. What don't you understand about the message? Hel-loooo? Anybody home in there? You have your whole life ahead of you, and all your doing is looking back. Grow up, girl. There are some things they don't teach you in homeschool. Your Birth Certificate Self, Susan Caraway.","author":"Jerry Spinelli","tags":["boyfriends","loss","stargirll"],"id":30467,"author_id":"Jerry+Spinelli"},{"text":"Most women would each be left with fewer dreams or without a dream, if the institution of marriage were to be abolished.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["abolish","abolishment","aphorism","aphorisms","aspiration","aspirations","aspire","boyfriend","boyfriends","couple","couples","divorce","divorced","divorcee","divorces","dream","dreamer","dreamers","dreams","girlfriend","girlfriends","goal","goals","humor","humour","institution","institutions","love","man","marriage","marriages","married","marry","men","quotation","quotations","quote","quotes","relationship-goal","relationship-goals","satire","vow","vows","wedding","wedding-vows","weddings","woman","women"],"id":49683,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"The movies make the brooding guy the hero – the guy with problems the guy who carries a gun, the gun with unresolved anger, the guy with a chip on his shoulder, the guy who’s a vampire – and they tell you that you can have the mythical happy ending with that same brooding guy. But in reality, the brooding guy is cranky. He doesn’t reply to emails. He doesn’t call. He’s only half there when you’re talking to him, and he doesn’t chase you when you run. You feel insecure all the time. You get needy and sad and you hate yourself got being needy. If you don’t know why he’s brooding, you’re shut out.And if you do know why he’s brooding, you’re still shut out. (Because he’s busy brooding.).","author":"E. Lockhart","tags":["bad-boys","boyfriends","brooding-boys","dating","love-interests","relationships"],"id":55097,"author_id":"E.+Lockhart"},{"text":"Tears are the biggest weapon used by every girl against the boys with a success rate of hundred percent.","author":"Aman Jassal","tags":["boy","boyfriend","boyfriends","boys","boys-and-girls","girl","girl-power","girl","girlfriend","girlfriends","girls","girls-and-boys","girltalk","girly","tear","teardrop","tears","tears-crying"],"id":58485,"author_id":"Aman+Jassal"},{"text":"I liked my face. Ethan liked my face. A lot of people liked my face. Besides, makeup was really just glorified face paint.","author":"D.A. Paul","tags":["boyfriends","face","funny","funny","girls","high-school","humor","makeup","prom","self-love","skin","teenagers"],"id":59831,"author_id":"D.A.+Paul"},{"text":"When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, 'What was it that you wanted and why didn't you fight for it?","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["best-friends","betrayal","boyfriends","break-ups","dating","divorce","family","friends","friendships","girlfriends","lost-love","love","loved-ones","lovers","marriage","moving-on","parents","ponderings","reflection","relationships","romance","senseless","soulmates","true-love","unrequited-love"],"id":61772,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Some people’s self-esteem was secretly improved when they discovered that their then-lovers had killed themselves over them.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","aplomb","assertiveness","better","bettered","boldness","boy","boyfriend","boyfriends","boys","confidence","confident","courage","esteem","funny","girl","girlfriend","girlfriends","girls","hilarious","humor","humorous","humour","husband","husbands","improve","improved","in-secret-secretly","joke","jokes","kill","kill-herself-over","kill-himself-over","kill-oneself-over","kill-yourself-over","killed","killed-herself-over","killed-himself-over","killing-yourself-over","lover","lovers","man","men","mettle","nerve","phlegm","poise","romeo-and-juliet","satire","secret","self-assurance","self-confidence","self-esteem","self-murder","self-murders","self-possession","suicidal","suicide","suicides","wife","wives","woman","women"],"id":81360,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Some people are each holding on to a lover of theirs who no longer loves them and/or who they no longer love, only because they do not want to have a reason or another reason to be jealous of the person who would eventually be their lover if they let go of them.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","africa","african","aphorism","aphorisms","axiom","axioms","boyfriend","boyfriends","breakup","breakups","date","dating","deep","dictum","dictums","divorce","divorces","envious","envy","epigram","epigrams","funny","girlfriend","girlfriends","give-up","gnome","gnomes","hate","hatred","hold-on","humor","humorous","humour","husband","husbands","insightful","jealous","jealousy","love","made-me-think","make-you-think","maxim","maxims","philosopher","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","of-the-day","quotes","reason","reasons","relationship","satire","satirical","saying","sayings","south-africa","south-african","thought-provoking","thoughtful","wife","wives"],"id":82763,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"I had to admit that I had a strong tendency to date jokers. I couldn’t say no to them. I would sit across from someone I was dating and try to imagine who in the entire world would date this nimrod other than me. But I always had to have a boyfriend. They distracted me from being sad. They baffled me with their stupidity. I refused to believe that finding love was difficult.","author":"Heather O'Neill","tags":["boyfriends","dating","love"],"id":87753,"author_id":"Heather+O%27Neill"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":47,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}