{"quotes":[{"text":"Any species that devours its natural environment will eventually fall victim to the resulting silence and I call the toxicity of silence: Extinction Silence.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["devour","devoured","devours","environment","environmental","environmental-conservation","environmental-degradation","environmental-protection","environmental-values","environmentalism","extinction","natural","natural-disasters","natural-law","natural-selection","natural-world","naturalism","silence","silence","silenced","species","species-relations","victim","victims"],"id":45352,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"He has been known to devour men.” “He’s a cannibal?” Cadmus asked in horror. “Well, not really,” Daemon replied. “He is a Cyclops. He does not eat his own kind — just men and only those who challenge him … he does not hunt them.","author":"Sulari Gentill","tags":["cannibal","cannibalism","challenge","cyclopes","cyclops","devour","greek","greek-gods","greek-mythology","greek-myths","greeks","polyphemus","polyphemus-island","posideon","son-of-posideon"],"id":169698,"author_id":"Sulari+Gentill"},{"text":"First impression is not the last reflection of a true friend, so if you are head over heels for someone who just bought you a cake, you'd better think twice before devouring your misery.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["appearance","cake","devour","first-impression","first-love","food","forever-love","future","head-over-heels","heel","heels","impression","lover","lovers","michael-bassey-johnson","misery","reflection","speculation","think-twice","true-friends","true-love","undying-love"],"id":201742,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"Fire wants to burn Water wants to flow Air wants to rise Earth wants to bindChaos wants to devourCal wants to live.","author":"Cassandra Clare","tags":["bind","burn","cal","devour","elements","fire","flow","humor","magic","power","rise"],"id":221098,"author_id":"Cassandra+Clare"},{"text":"There was a worm addicted to grape leaves, she continued, and suddenly it woke up. Call it a miracle, whatever, something woke it up and it wasn’t a worm anymore. It was the whole vineyard, and the orchard too, the fruit, the trunks, an ever-expanding joy that didn’t need to devour anything.","author":"Kathryn Davis","tags":["devour","joy"],"id":264983,"author_id":"Kathryn+Davis"},{"text":"It goes without saying that even those of us who are going to hell will get eternal life—if that territory really exists outside religious books and the minds of believers, that is. Having said that, given the choice, instead of being grilled until hell freezes over, the average sane human being would, needless to say, rather spend forever idling in an extremely fertile garden, next to a lamb or a chicken or a parrot, which they do not secretly want to eat, and a lion or a tiger or a crocodile, which does not secretly want to eat them.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","africa","african","aphorism","aphorisms","atheism","atheist","atheists","axiom","axioms","believer","believers","bible","book","books","chicken","chickens","christian","christianity","christians","crocodile","crocodiles","dead","death","deep","devour","dictum","dictums","eat","epigram","epigrams","fertile","fertility","freeze","funny","garden","gardens","gnome","gnomes","god","grill","grilled","heaven","hell","humor","humorous","humour","immortal","immortality","insightful","lamb","lambs","life","lion","lions","made-me-think","make-you-think","maxim","maxims","mortal","mortality","nonbeliever","nonbelievers","parrot","parrots","philosopher","prey","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","of-the-day","quotes","religion","religious","satire","satirical","satirist","satirists","saying","sayings","south-africa","south-african","territory","thought-provoking","thoughtful","tiger","tigers"],"id":326518,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"My eyes hunger to read more books then time allows me to devour.","author":"Jazz Feylynn","tags":["books","devour","eyes","eyes-hunger","feylynn","hunger","hungy","hungy-to-read","jazz","jazz-feylynn","read","reading","reading-habit","reading-habits","reading-motivation","reading-secrets","time","time-allows"],"id":362998,"author_id":"Jazz+Feylynn"},{"text":"If ever you feel lost, terrified, alone, emotionally and physically drained...When you feel like depression has overpowered you, and that the world itself, has devoured you...Just remember that you are not alone, you are loved, you are a beautiful story waiting to be told.” -Nina Jean Slack, Once Lost, Forever Found (Vol. #1).","author":"Nina Jean Slack","tags":["alive","alone","deep","devour","emo","emotional","emotions","feelings","found","life","living","lost","love","stories","story","waiting","world"],"id":385672,"author_id":"Nina+Jean+Slack"},{"text":"They lurk in the cold and dark.Hungry and,wicked,they wait for their one chance to devour the weak on Sorry Night.Then the vours feast on a banquet of fear.Your fear.They steal your soul but your body remains.No one knows the difference.","author":"Simon Holt","tags":["devour","fear","feast"],"id":411431,"author_id":"Simon+Holt"},{"text":"Poetry is one of my guilty pleasures and I want to thank you poets for providing me with beautiful words that I can devour and selfishly indulge in any time I want. ♥-Nina Jean Slack.","author":"Nina Jean Slack","tags":["beautiful","devour","guilty","indulge","love","pleasure","poem","poems","poetry","poets","selfish","words"],"id":469613,"author_id":"Nina+Jean+Slack"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":10,"pages":1}}