{"quotes":[{"text":"Sometimes the fastest way down is to jump off a cliff.","author":"Anthony T. Hincks","tags":["cliff","down","fast","jump-off","life","philosophy","slow","sometimes","speed","way"],"id":16376,"author_id":"Anthony+T.+Hincks"},{"text":"I have to say, old friend, you were supposed to help train her, not drop her off a cliff.","author":"Brandon Sanderson","tags":["cliff","fall","help","humor"],"id":28160,"author_id":"Brandon+Sanderson"},{"text":"Gankis lifted an arm to point at the distant shale cliffs. 'And in the face of it there were thousands of little holes, little what-you-call-'ems...'Alcoves,' Kennit supplied in an almost dreamy voice. 'I call them alcoves, Gankis. As would you, if you could speak your own mother tongue.","author":"Robin Hobb","tags":["alcoves","answer","arm","blank","captain","cliff","funny","language","mother","name","point","query","question","response","sarcasm","sarcastic","title","tongue","voice","wit","witty","word"],"id":54501,"author_id":"Robin+Hobb"},{"text":"I lost a horse today.''That sounds careless. What happened?''She jumped off a cliff.''A cliff! Is that normal?","author":"Maggie Stiefvater","tags":["cliff","funny","george-holly","sean"],"id":74423,"author_id":"Maggie+Stiefvater"},{"text":"The waves hit the cliff with more intensity than the shore, because the ocean knows the cliff has that masculine intensity which won’t complain about her feminine energy.","author":"Nityananda Das","tags":["beacon","cliff","feminine","masculine","ocean","waves"],"id":109275,"author_id":"Nityananda+Das"},{"text":"The magic in writing is not so much using your imagination as it is allowing the reader to uses theirs. When I write a novel I’m not going to hand walk you through each scene. Avid readers tend to have very high IQ’s so I’m constantly aware of, and respect that. I have a tendency to give my readers vivid descriptions of panoramic viewpoints, soft breezes, and the late evening as it scrapes against the emerging night and present this step by suspenseful step. Once I get them to the threshold of that unseen cliff, I shove them off and say, take it from there.","author":"Carl Henegan","tags":["avid-reader","cliff","imagination","iq","novels","readers","writing"],"id":111610,"author_id":"Carl+Henegan"},{"text":"A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north on a compass such as this is a straight line to the edge of a really big cliff.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["agenda","cliff","compass","danger","dangerous","destination","direction","ego-centric","fall","falling","greed","greedy","guide","justification","justify","legitimize","map","north","rationalization","rationalize","risk","self","self-centered","selfishness","stupid","stupidity","true-north","wisdom","wise","wise-up"],"id":150062,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Independence that has declared its ‘independence’ from the sure and certain compass of sound morals is nothing more than rogue greed having scantily dressed itself in the garb of independence while running off the cliff of anarchy.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["anarchy","cliff","compass","declaration","declared","entitlement","ethics","foolishness","freedom","greed","greedy","independence","independent","morality","morals","privilege","rights","selfish","selfishness","wisdom"],"id":185116,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"I had killed our careful relationship by driving my tongue through its heart and pushing it off a cliff.","author":"Jeff Lindsay","tags":["cliff","heart","killed","relationship","tongue"],"id":221371,"author_id":"Jeff+Lindsay"},{"text":"It was like leading people to the edge of a cliff, showing them the view, and then shoving them off.","author":"Justin Cronin","tags":["cliff","conversation","murder","shoving","view"],"id":227737,"author_id":"Justin+Cronin"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":17,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}