{"quotes":[{"text":"I am not collarbones or drunken letters never sent. I am not the way I leave or left or didn’t know how to handle anything,at any time,and I am not your fault.","author":"Charlotte Eriksson","tags":["break-up","charlotte-eriksson","drunk","growing-up","leave","leaving","letters","lost-love","poetry","prose","prose-poetry","sad","the-glass-child","tumblr-writer","youth"],"id":16420,"author_id":"Charlotte+Eriksson"},{"text":"... And you might say “no, you will never do that, that’s not you, not who I know, not who I thought you were”and I will say“watch me”for I never did this to fit inor stand outbut to live.","author":"Charlotte Eriksson","tags":["beat-the-odds","charlotte-eriksson","determination","dreams","fit-in","go-your-own-way","goals","independent","inspiration","inspiring","life","living","motivation","motivational","persistance","prose","quote","songwriter","stand-out","the-glass-child"],"id":20071,"author_id":"Charlotte+Eriksson"},{"text":"The world is filled with so many beautiful people after all and who am I to think that you will hold on, hold on to me, because who am I and what are we?","author":"Charlotte Eriksson","tags":["broken-heart","charlotte-eriksson","love","poetry","waiting"],"id":32056,"author_id":"Charlotte+Eriksson"},{"text":"Time flows smoother when you are with people you love.","author":"Charlotte Eriksson","tags":["bliss","charlotte-eriksson","flow","friends","happiness","love","people","songwriter","time"],"id":36347,"author_id":"Charlotte+Eriksson"},{"text":"I haven’t been very impressed lately.By people,or places,or the way someone said he loved me and then slowly changed his mind.","author":"Charlotte Eriksson","tags":["alone","breaking-up","change","charlotte-eriksson","growing-up","heart-break","impressed","life","love","mind","moving-on","people","places","poetry","prose","the-glass-child","youth"],"id":52249,"author_id":"Charlotte+Eriksson"},{"text":"Spend more time doing things that make you forget about the time.","author":"Charlotte Eriksson","tags":["being-happy","charlotte-eriksson","creative","creativity","flow","flow-state","focused","forget","happy","inspiration","joy","joyful","more","motivation","spend","the-glass-child","things","time","writng"],"id":66887,"author_id":"Charlotte+Eriksson"},{"text":"... Because one day, maybe one day, if I learned how to write clear enough, sing loud enough, be strong enough, I could explain myself in a way that made sense and then maybe one day, one day, someone out there would hear and recognise her or himself and I could let them know that they are not alone. Just like that song I had on repeat for several nights as I walked lonely on empty streets, let me know that I was notaloneand that’s how it starts.","author":"Charlotte Eriksson","tags":["alone","art","artist","charlotte-eriksson","childhood","empty-streets","growing-up","growth","inspiration","inspiring","learning","life","lonely","motivation","motivational","music","poetry","prose","self-discovery","song","songwriter","songwriting","the-glass-child","tumblr-writer","writer","writing","youth"],"id":90723,"author_id":"Charlotte+Eriksson"},{"text":"I want to learn how to speak to anyone at any time and make us both feel a little bit better, lighter, richer, with no commitments of ever meeting again. I want to learn how to stand wherever with whoever and still feel stable. I want to learn how to unlock the locks to our minds, my mind, so that when I hear opinions or views that don’t match up with mine, I can still listen and understand. I want to burn up lifeless habits of following maps and to-do lists, concentrated liquids to burn my mind and throatand I want to go back to the way nature shaped me. I want to learn to go on well with whatever I have in my hands at the momentin a natural state of mind,certain like the sea.I will find comfort in the rhythm of the sea.","author":"Charlotte Eriksson","tags":["become","becoming-better","better","certain","charlotte-eriksson","comfort","commitment","develop","friends","friendship","growing","learn","love","map","meeting","mind","nature","ocean","opinions","rhythm","richer","sea","self-development","songwriter","speak","state-of-mind","the-glass-child","view","writer","young","youth"],"id":98990,"author_id":"Charlotte+Eriksson"},{"text":"I’ve been trying to stay real and true and proud of who I am,all those ideals of how to lookI’ve been trying not to care.But I’m still holding my breath, I ‘m still watching every step.I’m still tip-toeing away, when I’m getting to ashamed of myself. I don’t want to be your letdown,I’m scared like hell I’m not enough.I don’t wanna beyour failure anymore.— The Glass Child, Letdown.","author":"Charlotte Eriksson","tags":["afraid","angry","charlotte-eriksson","inspiration","letdown","lyrics","motivation","music","not-enough","pressure","scared","the-glass-child"],"id":115988,"author_id":"Charlotte+Eriksson"},{"text":"It doesn’t matter how many times you leave, it will always hurt to come back and remember what you once had and who you once were. Then it will hurt just as much to leave again, and so it goes over and over again. Once you’ve started to leave, you will run your whole life.","author":"Charlotte Eriksson","tags":["alone","arriving","charlotte-eriksson","finding-yourself","growing-up","home","leaving","lost","prose","the-glass-child","the-great-perhaps","travelling","vagabonding","wandering","youth"],"id":123427,"author_id":"Charlotte+Eriksson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":46,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}