{"quotes":[{"text":"He looked at the silver pocketknife in his hand. An idea came to him – possibly the stupidest, craziest idea he’d had since he thought, Hey, I’ll get Percy to swim in the River Styx! He’ll love me for that!","author":"Rick Riordan","tags":["dark-humour","memory","nico-di-angelo","past"],"id":20991,"author_id":"Rick+Riordan"},{"text":"How was your afternoon?'“No one died, so it was a big improvement on my morning.","author":"Will Kostakis","tags":["dark-humour","death","humour"],"id":30934,"author_id":"Will+Kostakis"},{"text":"If the US is a human melting pot, then Eastern Europe is a scrap yard.","author":"Péter Zilahy","tags":["central-europe","dark-humour","dictatorship","novel"],"id":54939,"author_id":"P%C3%A9ter+Zilahy"},{"text":"You will suffer, son of Hades!’ What else is new? Nico thought.","author":"Rick Riordan","tags":["dark-humour","humour","life","nico-di-angelo","suffering"],"id":76979,"author_id":"Rick+Riordan"},{"text":"The light and the stars guide my way.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["dark-humour","darkness-and-light","light","light-and-darkness","lightning","shine-your-light","shine-your-star","shining-moment","shining-your-light"],"id":93607,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"The concrete floor beneath the airbed was hard and uncompromising, digging into her back and making it difficult to breathe. The stale air reeked of disinfectant and shit. And something else that she couldn't quite place. Death, perhaps?","author":"Mark Tilbury","tags":["dark-humour","psychological-thriller","suspense","thriller"],"id":150461,"author_id":"Mark+Tilbury"},{"text":"If you removed all the arteries, veins, \u0026 capillaries from a person’s body, and tied them end-to-end…the person will die.","author":"Neil deGrasse Tyson","tags":["dark-humor","dark-humour","funny","humor","humour","science"],"id":154648,"author_id":"Neil+deGrasse+Tyson"},{"text":"It’s not easy to be God.","author":"Péter Zilahy","tags":["central-europe","coming-of-age","dark-humour","sacrifice"],"id":164807,"author_id":"P%C3%A9ter+Zilahy"},{"text":"He had followed the calendar, the years, time-Bird farted.And it came to me, as though it were riding one moment of the gusting wind, as though bird had had it in him all the time and had passed it to me in that one moment of instant corruption.","author":"James Welch","tags":["dark-humour","history","revelation"],"id":180963,"author_id":"James+Welch"},{"text":"However, for all his affection and loyalty towards the animal, the dog would soon be leaving him - they would both be present at a celebratory dinner when they reached the roof, he reflected with a touch of gallows-humour, but the poodle would be in the pot.","author":"J.G. Ballard","tags":["ballard","dark-humor","dark-humour","dinner","dog","dogs","high-rise","j-g-ballard","james-graham-ballard","jg-ballard"],"id":187034,"author_id":"J.G.+Ballard"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":21,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}