{"quotes":[{"text":"Overeating is the addiction of choice of carers, and that's why it's come to be regarded as the lowest-ranking of all the addictions. It's a way of fucking yourself up while still remaining fully functional, because you have to. Fat people aren't indulging in the 'luxury' of their addiction making them useless, chaotic, or a burden. Instead, they are slowly self-destructing in a way that doesn't inconvenience anyone. And that's why it's so often a woman's addiction of choice. All the quietly eating mums. All the KitKats in office drawers. All the unhappy moments, late at night, caught only in the fridge light.","author":"Caitlin Moran","tags":["addiction","candy","fat","kitkats","obesity","overeating"],"id":393,"author_id":"Caitlin+Moran"},{"text":"My parents screened 'Willy Wonka \u0026 the Chocolate Factory' for my 6th birthday, and I became fascinated by the idea of living in a candy land with chocolate rivers and lollipop trees.","author":"Dylan Lauren","tags":["parents","trees","candy "],"id":3533,"author_id":"Dylan+Lauren"},{"text":"There’s nothing as cozy as a piece of candy and a book.","author":"Betty MacDonald","tags":["books","candy","cozy","reading"],"id":8615,"author_id":"Betty+MacDonald"},{"text":"Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.","author":"Ogden Nash","tags":["candy","drinking","jingle","liquor"],"id":40773,"author_id":"Ogden+Nash"},{"text":"He was like her favorite type of candy, she realized, a bit sour at first but all sweetness in the long run. Admittedly . . . That tartness was part of the allure all along.","author":"Victoria Kahler","tags":["candy","guys","men","sour","sweet"],"id":60168,"author_id":"Victoria+Kahler"},{"text":"I don't listen to the radio, cause I don't have a driver's license. But if I'm in L.A. Or somewhere where we have to rent a car, I'll hear my songs. Sometimes I hear them when I'm in stores, and I'm still like a little kid in a candy shop: 'Oh my God, that's my song!' I don't know how that could ever get old.","author":"Benny Blanco","tags":["god","song","candy "],"id":61822,"author_id":"Benny+Blanco"},{"text":"She grinned, looking for all the world like a sticky-mouthed little girl who had just convinced her gullible mother that she really did drop the first piece of candy into the storm drain and would need another.","author":"Wendy Corsi Staub","tags":["candy","child","funny"],"id":63622,"author_id":"Wendy+Corsi+Staub"},{"text":"Jelly beans! Millions and billions of purples and yellows and greens and licorice and grape and raspberry and mint and round and smooth and crunchy outside and soft-mealy inside and sugary and bouncing jouncing tumbling clittering clattering skittering fell on the heads and shoulders and hardhats and carapaces of the Timkin works, tinkling on the slidewalk and bouncing away and rolling about underfoot and filling the sky on their way down with all the colors of joy and childhood and holidays, coming down in a steady rain, a solid wash, a torrent of color and sweetness out of the sky from above, and entering a universe of sanity and metronomic order with quite-mad coocoo newness. Jelly beans!","author":"Harlan Ellison","tags":["anarchy","candy","grape","jelly-beans","jellybeans","licorice","raspberry"],"id":72115,"author_id":"Harlan+Ellison"},{"text":"We go on in her room, where we like to set. I get up in the big chair and she get up on me and smile, bounce a little. 'Tell me bout the brown wrapping. And the present.' She so excited, she squirming. She has to jump off my lap, squirm a little to get it out. Then she crawl back up. That's her favorite story cause when I tell it, she get two presents. I take the brown wrapping from my Piggly Wiggly grocery bag and wrap up a little something, like piece a candy, inside. Then I use the white paper from my Cole's Drug Store bag and wrap another one just like it. She take it real serious, the unwrapping, letting me tell the story bout how it ain't the color a the wrapping that count, it's what we is inside.","author":"Kathryn Stockett","tags":["candy","race","racism"],"id":107083,"author_id":"Kathryn+Stockett"},{"text":"Cotton candy is the most amazing form of caramelization ever invented by man.","author":"Jose Andres","tags":["man","candy","cotton "],"id":112694,"author_id":"Jose+Andres"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":41,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}