{"quotes":[{"text":"I tell myself that this is okay, but I realize that I don’t have to. This is what I want. Him. Me. Closer.","author":"Nikki Rae","tags":["closer","me","the-sunshine-series","vampires","want"],"id":24213,"author_id":"Nikki+Rae"},{"text":"No matter how close people get, they never reach each other. Including us now. Even now, there's a place where each of us is alone.","author":"Peter Høeg","tags":["alone","close","closeness","closer","lonely","love","people","reach","reaching"],"id":25057,"author_id":"Peter+H%C3%B8eg"},{"text":"With every moment of heart ache,I get a little closer to 'Acceptance' somehow,Denying to expect what's best,But to approve it's the best for now!","author":"Somya Kedia","tags":["acceptance","ance","approve","best","closer","expect","heart","heartache","moment","now"],"id":42955,"author_id":"Somya+Kedia"},{"text":"One more year and I will be closer to wherever I'm going.","author":"Emma Cameron","tags":["closer","future","year"],"id":124510,"author_id":"Emma+Cameron"},{"text":"I'm one day closer…!","author":"James A. Murphy","tags":["closer","day","one"],"id":131529,"author_id":"James+A.+Murphy"},{"text":"This is an ode to life.The anthem of the world.For as there are billionsof different stars thatmake up the skyso, too, are there billions of different humans thatmake up the Earth.Some shine brighter but all are made ofthe same cosmic dust.O the joy of beingin life with all these people!I speak of differencesbecause they are there.Like the different organsthat make up our bodies.Earth, itself, is one large body.Listen to how it howlswhen one human isin misery.When one kills another, the Earth feels the pang in itschest. When one orgasms, the Earth craves a cigarette.Look carefully,these animals are beauty spots that make the Earth’s face lovelier and more loveable.These oceans are the Earth’s limpid eyes. These trees, its hair.This is an ode to life.The anthem of the world.I will no longer speak of differences, for the similaritiesare larger. Look even closer. There may bedistances between our limbs butthere are no spaces betweenour hearts. We long to be one.We long to be in nature andto run wild with its wildlife.Let us celebrate life and living, for it is sacrilegious to be ungrateful.Let us play and be playful, for it is sacrilegiousto be serious.Let us celebrate imperfectionsand make existenceproud of us, for tomorrow isdeath, and this is an ode to life. The anthem of the world.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["anguish","animals","anthem","appreciate","beautiful","beauty","beloved","billion","bodies","body","celebrate","celebration-poems","chest","cigarette","city","closer","cosmic","country","death","differences","distance","dust","earth","existence","eyes","grateful","hair","harmony","howl","humanity","humans","imperfections","joy","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kill","kojouri","life","life-poems","limbs","listen","live","living","look","love","loveable","lovelier","lover","misery","nation","nature","now","oceans","ode","one-world","oneness","organs","orgasm","pang","peace","peacefulness","people","person","play","playful","present","proud","sacrilege","sacrilegious","seas","serious","seriousness","shine","similarities","sky","space","spiritual","spirituality","spot","stars","suffer","suffering","today","togetherness","tomorrow","trees","unappreciative","ungrateful","union","united","unity","wild","wildlife","world"],"id":147072,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"The lights are off and the sun if finally setting, the night sky is changing overhead.","author":"Tegan Quin","tags":["closer","heartthrob","lights-are-off","sara-quin","sky","tegan-and-sara","tegan-quin"],"id":168615,"author_id":"Tegan+Quin"},{"text":"It might be like you are still far from getting there, but remember, you are closer to it than you were yesterday. Every tiny step you take counts a lot!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["close","closer","far","food-for-thought","gradually","israelmore-ayivor","keep-moving","little","little-things","small","small-steps","yesterday"],"id":173524,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"The more you run away from the devil, the more you will realize that it is closer to you than before. Don't run away from it; RESIST the devil and it will FLEE from you!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["close","closer","devil","enemy","evil","flee","food-for-thought","israelmore-ayivor","realize","resist","resist-the-devil","run-away","satan","the-old-serpent","very-close"],"id":253668,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Gray.The overcast skies had the colour of deadened stones, and seemed closer than usually, as though they were phlegmatically observing my every movement with their apathetic emptily blue-less eyes; each tiny drop of hazy rain drifting around resembled transparent molten steel, the pavement looked like it was about to burst into disconsolate tears, even the air itself was gray, so ultimate and ubiquitous that colour was everywhere around me.Gray...","author":"Simona Panova","tags":["air","apathetic","apathy","blue","blue-less","close","closer","cloud","clouds","cloudy","color","colors","colour","colourless","colours","cry","crying","dark","darkness","dead","deaden","death","disconsolate","downpour","drop","everywhere","eye","eyes","goth","gothic","gray","grey","grim","haze","hazy","inconsolable","iron","itself","love","metal","move","movement","mysterious","mystery","observe","overcast","phlegmatic","rain","raining","rainy","rock","romance","romantic","slow","slowly","steel","stone","stones","suspense","tear","tears","ubiquitous","ultimate","water","weep","weeping","young-adult"],"id":327095,"author_id":"Simona+Panova"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":19,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}