{"quotes":[{"text":"There are, he assures her, no such things as curses. There is luck, maybe, bad or good. A slight indication of each day toward success or failure. But no curses.","author":"Anthony Doerr","tags":["curses","luck"],"id":15365,"author_id":"Anthony+Doerr"},{"text":"GOD can turn every curse into a blessings.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["blessing","christian","curses","faith","god","inspirational"],"id":18505,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"A southwest blow on ye and blister you all o'er!''The red plague rid you!''Toads, beetles, bats, light on you!''As wicked dew as e'er my mother brushed with raven's feather from unwholesome fen drop on you.''Strange stuff''Thou jesting monkey thou''Apes with foreheads villainous low''Pied ninny''Blind mole...' -The Caliban Curses.","author":"Gary D. Schmidt","tags":["curses","shakespeare","the-tempest"],"id":20403,"author_id":"Gary+D.+Schmidt"},{"text":"Rather blessings, after counting my misfortunes, I realized how the more blessed I am.","author":"Anthony Liccione","tags":["a-time-to-grow","bad-luck","being-strong","blessed","born-into-this","calamity","count","curses","destiny","disaster","fate","gain","god-will-make-a-way","knowledge","lessons-learned","lose","misadventure","misfortune","moving-on","realize","solutions","struggle-for-strength","things-could-be-worse","trial","tribulation","understanding","wisdom"],"id":84111,"author_id":"Anthony+Liccione"},{"text":"Curses are like chickens, they always come home to roost.","author":"Charles Haddon Spurgeon","tags":["calumny","curse","curses","gossip","justice","karma","slander"],"id":115839,"author_id":"Charles+Haddon+Spurgeon"},{"text":"Curses. Jesus. It took all kinds. There wasn't anything to a curse but words. Just like blessings and prayers and all the rest of it. People used words to try to change what they should be changing with their own two hands. And if the problem was too big to fix, no words called up into the air would make a lick of difference.","author":"Mindy Mejia","tags":["curses","make-change-happen-yourself","words"],"id":168335,"author_id":"Mindy+Mejia"},{"text":"For him that stealeth, or borroweth and returneth not, this book from its owner,Let it change into a serpent in his hand and rend him. Let him be struck with palsy and all his members blasted. Let him languish in pain crying out for mercy, Let there be no surcease to his agony till he sink in dissolution. Let bookworms gnaw his entrails in token of the worm that dieth not.When at last he goeth to his final punishment, Let the flames of Hell consume him forever.[attributed to the Monastery of San Pedro in Barcelona, Spain].","author":"Nicholas A. Basbanes","tags":["books","curses","libraries","thieves"],"id":183303,"author_id":"Nicholas+A.+Basbanes"},{"text":"Vulnerability is the curse of the thinking classes.","author":"John D. MacDonald","tags":["curses","thinking","vulnerability"],"id":213342,"author_id":"John+D.+MacDonald"},{"text":"A lot of people don't believe in curses.A lot of people don't believe in yellow-spotted lizards either, but if one bites you, it doesn't make a difference whether you believe in it or not.","author":"Louis Sachar","tags":["belief","believe","curses","lizards"],"id":229129,"author_id":"Louis+Sachar"},{"text":"Seriously, who curses you with their dying breath and says, I hope your eye twitches!","author":"Rick Riordan","tags":["curses","dying-breath","humor","percy-jackson"],"id":230518,"author_id":"Rick+Riordan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":21,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}