{"quotes":[{"text":"My dear, please be careful.You no longer live only for yourself.You live for me as well.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["beloved","boyfriend","careful","date","dating","dear","girlfriend","happiness","happy","harmony","inspirational","joy","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","life","live","lives","love","loved","lover","loves","loving","marriage","married","my-love","one-love","oneness","only","please","quote","relationship","share","sharing","together","union","unity","us","yourself"],"id":41246,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"There are no happy endings, he knew, because nothing ends; and if there were any being dispensed, a great many worthier people would be in line for them long before Michael and Laura and himself. But the happiness of the unworthy and the happiness of the so-so is as fragile and self-centered and dear as the happiness of the righteous and the worthy; and the happiness of the living is no less short and desperate and forgotten than the joys of the dead.","author":"Peter S. Beagle","tags":["dead","dear","fragile","happy-endings","jonathan-rebeck","joys-of-the-dead","laura-durand","living","michael-morgan","nothing-ends","righteous","self-centered","unworthy","worthy"],"id":48701,"author_id":"Peter+S.+Beagle"},{"text":"That's why I don't tell people about us. They wouldn't understand, and 1 don't feel the need to explain, simply because I know in my heart how real it was. When I think of you, I can't help smiling, knowing that you've completed me somehow. I love you, not just for now, but for always, and I dream of the day that you'll take me in your arms again.","author":"Nicholas Sparks","tags":["dear","love","romance","romantic"],"id":63497,"author_id":"Nicholas+Sparks"},{"text":"Neither the cat nor I missed you while you were gone. It's worse than that. We danced the visitor-gone dance, flinging our feet (and paws) with particular glee. You remember the dance - the one you do after shutting the door behind a difficult visitor (like a family member)? You hold your breath for 120 seconds then deadbolt the door, race to the bed, leap on to it and jump, twirl, bell-kick and prance, singing all the while, 'she's go-onnne, she's gooo-oonne.","author":"Melissa Checker","tags":["dear","jack","short","story"],"id":96189,"author_id":"Melissa+Checker"},{"text":"What did you do for them, Bone? Teach them to read and write? Help them rebuild, give them Christ, help restore a culture? Did you remember to warn them that it could never be Eden?","author":"Walter M. Miller Jr","tags":["apocalypse","bone","culture","cycle","cylical","dear","death","destruction","eden","god","hope","post-apocalypse","rebirth","teach"],"id":99582,"author_id":"Walter+M.+Miller+Jr"},{"text":"A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.","author":"Homer","tags":["brother","friend","dear "],"id":102651,"author_id":"Homer"},{"text":"'Cars' is simply near and dear to my heart.","author":"John Lasseter","tags":["heart","dear","near "],"id":131401,"author_id":"John+Lasseter"},{"text":"Dear Single Ladies, Love is precious, Remember this: You are worth pursuing. Don't Cheapen Yourself.","author":"Genereux Philip","tags":["cheapen","dear","don-t-cheapen-yourself","humorous","inspirational","life-marriage","life-and-sayings","love","precious","precious-moments","pursuing-happiness","remember","single-ladies","you-are-worthy"],"id":139416,"author_id":"Genereux+Philip"},{"text":"Love has not a value,though we treasure it dear,it's worth more than gold,that's why I keep you so near.","author":"Anthony T Hincks","tags":["dear","gold","keep","love","philosophy","treasure","you"],"id":241667,"author_id":"Anthony+T+Hincks"},{"text":"That’s the key, you know, confidence. I know for a fact that if you genuinely like your body, so can others. It doesn’t really matter if it’s short, tall, fat or thin, it just matters that you can find some things to like about it. Even if that means having a good laugh at the bits of it that wobble independently, occasionally, that’s all right. It might take you a while to believe me on this one, lots of people don’t because they seem to suffer from self-hatred that precludes them from imagining that a big woman could ever love herself because they don’t. But I do. I know what I’ve got is a bit strange and difficult to love but those are the very aspects that I love the most! It’s a bit like people. I’ve never been particularly attracted to the uniform of conventional beauty. I’m always a bit suspicious of people who feel compelled to conform. I personally like the adventure of difference. And what’s beauty, anyway?","author":"Dawn French","tags":["confidence","dawn","dear","fatty","french","funny","help","inspirational","inspiring","love","self","weight"],"id":243989,"author_id":"Dawn+French"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":22,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}