{"quotes":[{"text":"I always believed that If I’m not carrying at least a slight poetically painful crack in my heart I’ve been cheated by nature.","author":"Annie Ali","tags":["believe","cheated","crack","nature","self"],"id":6544,"author_id":"Annie+Ali"},{"text":"Eyes and ears are two.Lungs and kidneys, too.I wonder thenwhy we're born with oneheart that skips a beat when hay is here,and beats quickly when you are near.One heart that cracks when you are far, lie to me and leave a scar.I wonder thenwhy we're born with oneheart that gets broken.Was I supposed to find you then?So your heart would make one plus one is twofor me andtwo for you.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["beat","born","crack","ears","eyes","far","hay","heart","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kidneys","kojouri","lie","love-poem","lungs","me-and-you","one","quote","scar","skip","two","wonder","you-and-i","you-and-me"],"id":54345,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"If thinking and reason crack under pressure of emotional convulsions or when commissioned facts are resulting from fibs and fake constructions, truth may be in great peril. ( ”Blame storming”).","author":"Erik Pevernagie","tags":["blame-storming","commissioned","constructions","convulsions","crack","emotional","facts","fake","fibs","peril","pressure","reason","resulting","thinking","truth","under"],"id":64092,"author_id":"Erik+Pevernagie"},{"text":"He stood in a room, looking around, seeing thousands of himself. He banged the walls made of mirrors, but they wouldn't break. Thier laugh filled his heart and with fear, he curled up and sat there. And then She came out of nowhere and wrapped her arm around him. She held his hand, together they got up and walked towards a wall. He raised his head and looked at the reflections, but all he saw there was only him. She turned and smiled at him and touched the wall. It cracked and shattered into pieces. She inside him broke all the walls around him. He was free, he was not held and haunted by his reflections anymore.","author":"Akshay Vasu","tags":["break","crack","fear","free","freedom","haunted","heart","held","him","love","mirrors","pain","pieces-bang","reflections","safe","shatter","she","walls"],"id":92523,"author_id":"Akshay+Vasu"},{"text":"He was like one of those pictures full of small errors, the kind you could only pick out by searching the image from every angle, and even then, a few always slipped by. On the surface, Eli seemed perfectly normal, but now and then Victor would catch a crack, a sideways glance, a moment when his roommate's face and his words, his look and his meaning, would not line up. Those fleeting slices fascinated Victor. It was like watching two people, one hiding in the other's skin. And their skin was always too dry, on the verge of cracking and showing the color of the thing beneath.","author":"Victoria Schwab","tags":["angle","beneath","crack","dry","error","false","fascinate","fascination","find","glance","hide","hiding","lie","look","mask","normal","people","perfect","picture","search","skin","surface","thing","two","under"],"id":115944,"author_id":"Victoria+Schwab"},{"text":"Usually if you pray from the heart, you get an answer—the phone rings or the mail comes, and light gets in through the cracks, so you can see the next right thing to do. That’s all you need.","author":"Anne Lamott","tags":["answer","crack","heart","light","mail","phone"],"id":125486,"author_id":"Anne+Lamott"},{"text":"They sat on the boarding house porch and saw the sun plunge into the same crack in the earth from which the night emerged.","author":"Zora Neale Hurston","tags":["boarding-house","crack","earth","night","renewal","sun","their-eyes-were-watching-god","zora-neale-hurston"],"id":143970,"author_id":"Zora+Neale+Hurston"},{"text":"No one asks how or what I am doing. They could not care less. We’re all looking glasses, we girls, existing only to reflect their images back to them as they’d like to be seen. Hollow vessels of girls to be rinsed of our own ambitions, wants, and opinions, just waiting to be filled with the cool, tepid water of gracious compliance.A fissure forms in the vessel. I’m cracking open.","author":"Libba Bray","tags":["crack","gemma-doyle","girl","mirage","society"],"id":180369,"author_id":"Libba+Bray"},{"text":"Marketing is so powerful that it can make even an extremely untalented musician a one-hundred-hits wonder.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["ability","able","accomplished","ace","adept","adroit","advertiser","advertisers","advertising","aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","apt","aptitude","artistry","bent","branding","brilliance","brilliant","capable","capacity","competent","consummate","crack","deft","dexterity","dexterous","expert","expertise","facility","faculty","flair","forte","funny","genius","gift","gifted","hilarious","hit","hits","humor","humorous","humour","joke","jokes","knack","market","marketer","marketers","marketing","masterly","music","musician","musicians","muso","musos","one-hit-wonder","personal-brand","personal-branding","playlist","playlists","proficient","quotations","quotes","radio","sales","satire","skill","skilled","skillful","strength","talent","talented","technique","top-40","top-forty","touch","ungifted","untalented"],"id":233008,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Stars are cracks of light for night than pierces the heart. (Étoiles sont fissures de lumière - De la nuit que transperce le cœur.).","author":"Charles de Leusse","tags":["coeur","crack","fissure","heart","light","lumière","night","nuit","strar","étoile"],"id":236158,"author_id":"Charles+de+Leusse"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":19,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}