{"quotes":[{"text":"He ran as fast as he could, but the memories were fast too. He stumbled upon them and fell to the ground. The memories got up and stared into his eyes menacingly, they laughed harder and kept their foot on his neck. He choked and fought to breathe. He tried and failed to scream. They choked him hard until he suffered and died miserably inside.","author":"Akshay Vasu","tags":["breathe","choke","death","eyes","laugh","memories","menace","miserable","neck","pain","run","stumble"],"id":4788,"author_id":"Akshay+Vasu"},{"text":"Whenever you get an appetite, you feed yourself. Therefore, fill your belly on wisdom of things old and new. Only swallow the truth, less you choke on the lies.","author":"Amaka Imani Nkosazana","tags":["appetite","choke","faith","fears","hope","inspiration","inspire","lies","life","living","love","quotes","time","truth","wisdom","wise"],"id":14622,"author_id":"Amaka+Imani+Nkosazana"},{"text":"In the middle of the mayhem, you came and sang a song of melancholy. You promised a wildfire, but instead choked the light that was struggling hard for survival. Eventually when all the light went off. You left, complaining about the darkness.","author":"Akshay Vasu","tags":["choke","darkness","light","mayhem","promise-song-melancholy","struggle","survive","wildfire"],"id":20666,"author_id":"Akshay+Vasu"},{"text":"Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.","author":"Chuck Palahniuk","tags":["ambition","choke","dreams","education","intelligence","lethargy","palahniuk","sloth"],"id":75564,"author_id":"Chuck+Palahniuk"},{"text":"She kept forcing herself to remember the entire conversation, playing it back and playing it back, all the way through, forcing a finger down her memory's throat.","author":"Rainbow Rowell","tags":["choke","force","memory","thought"],"id":162307,"author_id":"Rainbow+Rowell"},{"text":"It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we don't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed. Even if it's for sure unexplainable. Even God.","author":"Chuck Palahniuk","tags":["choke","god","life","reality"],"id":186301,"author_id":"Chuck+Palahniuk"},{"text":"By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself.","author":"Chuck Palahniuk","tags":["age","choke","time"],"id":303766,"author_id":"Chuck+Palahniuk"},{"text":"A culture of vultures steeped and born of violence shall choke on the blood of its offspring.","author":"T.F. Hodge","tags":["behavior","blood","born","children","choke","community","culture","future-generation","karma","kids","offspring","violence","violent"],"id":315617,"author_id":"T.F.+Hodge"},{"text":"The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here.","author":"Chuck Palahniuk","tags":["american","born","born-here","choke","immigrant","immigration","palahniuk","truth"],"id":325876,"author_id":"Chuck+Palahniuk"},{"text":"Humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.","author":"Chuck Palahniuk","tags":["choke","chuck-palahniuk","humiliation","shame","suffering"],"id":342039,"author_id":"Chuck+Palahniuk"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":15,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}