{"quotes":[{"text":"Note for a moment do I take you for a truth that is real,' Ivan exclaimed in what even amounted to fury. 'You are a falsehood, you are my illness, you are a ghost. Only I do not know how to destroy you, and perceive that for a certain time I must suffer you. You are a hallucination I am having. You are the embodiment of myself, but only of one side of me ... Of my thoughts and emotions, though only those that are most loathsome and stupid. In that regard you might even be of interest to me, if only I had time to throw away on you ...","author":"Fyodor Dostoyevsky","tags":["a-karamazov","delirium","dream","hallucination"],"id":31996,"author_id":"Fyodor+Dostoyevsky"},{"text":"He had entered another imaginative world, one connected to the beginning of his life as a writer, to the Napoleonic world that had been a lifelong metaphor for the power of art, for the empire of his own creation He began to dictate notes for a new novel, 'fragments of the book he imagines himself to be writing.' As if he were now writing a novel of which his own altered consciousness was the dramatic center, he dictated a vision of himself as Napoleon and his own family as the Imperial Bonapartes....William and Alice he grasped with his regent hand, addressing his 'dear and most esteemed brother and sister.' To them, to whom he had granted countries, he now gave the responsibility of supervising the detailed plans he had created for 'the decoration of certain apartments, here of the Louvre and Tuileries, which you will find addressed in detail to artists and workment who take them in hand.' He was himself the 'imperial e.","author":"Fred Kaplan","tags":["art","creativity","death","delirium","hallucination","imagination","language","novel-writing","novelists","sentence-structure","syntax","writing"],"id":51070,"author_id":"Fred+Kaplan"},{"text":"That is the rule of the Wilds: You must be bigger and stronger and tougher. You must hurt or be hurt.","author":"Lauren Oliver","tags":["delirium","hurt","love","rules","strong"],"id":57277,"author_id":"Lauren+Oliver"},{"text":"Everywhere he touches is fire. My whole body is burning up, the two of us becoming twin points of the same bright white flame.","author":"Lauren Oliver","tags":["alex-sheathes","burning-up","delirium","fire","lauren-oliver","lena-holloway","love","sweet","touch"],"id":65051,"author_id":"Lauren+Oliver"},{"text":"We'll walk together holding hands, and kiss in broad daylight, and love each other as much as we want to, and no one will ever try to keep up apart.","author":"Lauren Oliver","tags":["alex-sheathes","delirium","lauren-oliver","lena-holloway","love","sweet"],"id":67635,"author_id":"Lauren+Oliver"},{"text":"I would give away all this superstellar life, all the ranks and honours, simply to be transformed into the soul of a merchant’s wife weighing eighteen stone and set candles at God’s shrine.","author":"Fyodor Dostoyevsky","tags":["delirium","devil","dostoyevsky","ivan","karamazov"],"id":114749,"author_id":"Fyodor+Dostoyevsky"},{"text":"I'd rather die on my own terms than live on theirs. I'd rather die loving Alex than live without him.","author":"Lauren Oliver","tags":["alex","delirium","lauren-oliver","lena","love","romance"],"id":133237,"author_id":"Lauren+Oliver"},{"text":"I put my forehead on his collarbone, place one hand on his chest. Its rhythm reassures me: He is real, and he is now.","author":"Lauren Oliver","tags":["delirium","love","real","reassurance"],"id":140982,"author_id":"Lauren+Oliver"},{"text":"He is my world and my world is him and without him there is no world.","author":"Lauren Oliver","tags":["alex","delirium","lauren-oliver","lena","romance"],"id":158649,"author_id":"Lauren+Oliver"},{"text":"Every day, streets papered with more and more for .Reward, reward, reward.Reward for information.If you see something, say something.A paper town, a paper world: paper rustling in the airm whispering to me, hissing out a message of posion and jealousy.If you know something, do something.I'm sorry, Lena.","author":"Lauren Oliver","tags":["betrayal","delirium","friendship","hana-tate","jealousy"],"id":160116,"author_id":"Lauren+Oliver"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":31,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}