{"quotes":[{"text":"...You won't age? I promise you this - your hands will go shiny and transparent and at the slightest bruise they'll bleed...","author":"John Geddes","tags":["age","bruise","hands","shiny","skin","transparent"],"id":11269,"author_id":"John+Geddes"},{"text":"I bruise easily and sometimes I can’t stop bleeding.","author":"Jennifer Elisabeth","tags":["bleed","bruise","emotions","feelings","heartbreak","jennifer-elisabeth","love","pain","quote"],"id":41658,"author_id":"Jennifer+Elisabeth"},{"text":"Don't lick your wounds unless you care to taste the sting a second time.","author":"Richelle E. Goodrich","tags":["bruise","grief","heartache","hurt","injury","lick-your-wounds","richelle","richelle-goodrich","sting","wounds"],"id":48444,"author_id":"Richelle+E.+Goodrich"},{"text":"Sadness is a bruise on the skin of memory.","author":"John Mark Green","tags":["bruise","memories","memory","pain","sad","sadness","sorrow"],"id":107707,"author_id":"John+Mark+Green"},{"text":"With a strong spirit , you heal every bruise.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["bruise","healing","pain","spirituality"],"id":132458,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"She was so delicate that, while we sat beneath the linden branches, a leaf would fall and drift down and touch her skin, and it would leave a bruise. So as we sat in the afternoon hour, beneath that fragrant linden bower, I had to chase all of the leafs that fell away.","author":"Roman Payne","tags":["affection","bruise","chivalry","courtesy","courting","delicate","feminity","gentleman","girl","linden","linden-tree","masculinity","roman-payne"],"id":181380,"author_id":"Roman+Payne"},{"text":"Once in a while I am struckall over again... By just how blue the sky appears .. On wind-played autumn mornings, blue enoughto bruise a heart.","author":"Sanober Khan","tags":["autumn","bruise","indian-","nature","poems","poetry","poetry"],"id":201943,"author_id":"Sanober+Khan"},{"text":"If I could take away his pain… If there was a way to transfer it from his soul onto mine. I would take it. Without hesitation I would take it all. Maybe that’s how you know you love someone. When you actually feel each tear they cry as if they were your own. When you feel each cut, each bruise, each hit as if you’re the one suffering. I bled for him.\u0026 in turn, he bled for her.Funny, how life comes full circle.","author":"Rachel Van Dyken","tags":["bleed","bruise","full-circle","his-pain","hope","scars","take-away","tragedy"],"id":288754,"author_id":"Rachel+Van+Dyken"},{"text":"Those are big collisions, Hally. They make for a lot of bruises. People get hurt in all that bumping, and we're sick and tired of it now. It's been going on for too long. Are we never going to get it right?...Learn to dance life like champions instead of always being just a bunch of beginners at it?","author":"Athol Fugard","tags":["bruise","bruised","collision","dance","life","life-lesson","life-lessons","master-harold","master-harold-and-the-boys","people","people-suck"],"id":364041,"author_id":"Athol+Fugard"},{"text":"The sun was up - stuck like half a tinned apricot on a sky awash with all the colours of a fading bruise. Down below the living dead were forming their complaining queues at bus stops.","author":"Helen Hodgman","tags":["apricot","bruise","colors","queues","sky","sun"],"id":369972,"author_id":"Helen+Hodgman"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":12,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}