{"quotes":[{"text":"The Dolls were an attitude. If nothing else they were a great attitude.","author":"Johnny Thunders","tags":["great","nothing","dolls "],"id":20276,"author_id":"Johnny+Thunders"},{"text":"Shelly shook her head and made sure she had plenty of space so that she wouldn’t hit anything. As many times before, she kept the hoop close to her waist and then twirled it with small, tight bursts of speed. As the hoop gathered in momentum it started to give off a hum that soon took on a light blue illumination far brighter than the streetlamps. It was so bright, that it lit up the entire backyard.","author":"Nathan Reese Maher","tags":["abandoned","all-alone","alone","blackout","blankets","boogieman","books","bullies","bump-in-the-night","chapter-series","children-books","children-s-books","clubhouse","creatures","darkness","diversity","dolls","female-protagonists","fighting","flashlights","ghosts","ghouls","girl-power","hide-and-go-seek","hiding","horror","hula-hoop","hunting","jump-rope","kick-the-can","kids","lights-out","lost","monsters","night","no-adults","no-electricity","no-parents","no-rules","no-school","patches","post-apocalyptic","powerout","rebels","running","shelly-wunn","sok-market","stuffed-animals","superpowers","survival","terror","vampires"],"id":72725,"author_id":"Nathan+Reese+Maher"},{"text":"Patches don’t look it, but when attached to your soul they can get pretty heavy. They go over the holes in your soul, like when you patch a sock. When you have a hole in your soul, it’s because you’re hurting from something. I don’t know if you noticed, but that girl had a lot of holes.","author":"Nathan Reese Maher","tags":["abandoned","all-alone","alone","blackout","blankets","boogieman","books","bullies","bump-in-the-night","chapter-series","children-books","children-s-books","clubhouse","creatures","darkness","diversity","dolls","female-protagonists","fighting","flashlights","ghosts","ghouls","girl-power","hide-and-go-seek","hiding","horror","hula-hoop","hunting","jump-rope","kick-the-can","kids","lights-out","lost","monsters","night","no-adults","no-electricity","no-parents","no-rules","no-school","patches","post-apocalyptic","powerout","rebels","running","shelly-wunn","sok-market","stuffed-animals","superpowers","survival","terror","vampires"],"id":87730,"author_id":"Nathan+Reese+Maher"},{"text":"If someone says something about your art that makes you feel bad, disregard it and joyfully make more art.","author":"Gayle Wray","tags":["art","artist","cloth-doll","dolls","gayle-wray","ooak"],"id":88750,"author_id":"Gayle+Wray"},{"text":"Listen, we’ll come visit you. Okay? I’ll dress up as William Shakespeare, Lucent as Emily Dickinson, and beautiful ‘Ray’ as someone dashing and manly like Jules Verne or Ernest Hemingway...And we’ll write on your white-room walls. We’ll write you out of your supposed insanity. I love you, Micky Affias.-James (from 'Descendants of the Eminent').","author":"Tim Cummings","tags":["addiction","afterlife","astrology","brothers","children-of-celebrities","class-struggle","dolls","epilepsy","gay-and-lesbian","ghosts","goth-lifestyle","hollywood","jocks","love","mothers-and-daughters","plays","poetry","progeria","screenplays","suicide","teenagers","war"],"id":128966,"author_id":"Tim+Cummings"},{"text":"Aloha Oukou. It looked like your soul was escaping so I put you in a tree.","author":"Nathan Reese Maher","tags":["abandoned","all-alone","alone","blackout","blankets","boogieman","books","bullies","bump-in-the-night","chapter-series","children-books","children-s-books","clubhouse","creatures","darkness","diversity","dolls","female-protagonists","fighting","flashlights","ghosts","ghouls","girl-power","hide-and-go-seek","hiding","horror","hula-hoop","hunting","jump-rope","kick-the-can","kids","lights-out","lost","monsters","night","no-adults","no-electricity","no-parents","no-rules","no-school","patches","post-apocalyptic","powerout","rebels","running","shelly-wunn","sok-market","stuffed-animals","superpowers","survival","terror","vampires"],"id":129018,"author_id":"Nathan+Reese+Maher"},{"text":"Soon, all the children were chanting it. “No school! No school!","author":"Nathan Reese Maher","tags":["abandoned","all-alone","alone","blackout","blankets","boogieman","books","bullies","bump-in-the-night","chapter-series","children-books","children-s-books","clubhouse","creatures","darkness","diversity","dolls","female-protagonists","fighting","flashlights","ghosts","ghouls","girl-power","hide-and-go-seek","hiding","horror","hula-hoop","hunting","jump-rope","kick-the-can","kids","lights-out","lost","monsters","night","no-adults","no-electricity","no-parents","no-rules","no-school","patches","post-apocalyptic","powerout","rebels","running","shelly-wynn","sok-market","stuffed-animals","superpowers","survival","terror","vampires"],"id":136048,"author_id":"Nathan+Reese+Maher"},{"text":"The shadow self is what lies beneath the makeup. It’s those ugly parts that you haven’t accepted about yourself. You hide those parts in the shadows until you’re ready.” Her face remained a haunting calm. “When you realize the scars are who you are, that there was nothing wrong with you and that you were beautiful all along - that’s when you decide to take the makeup off.","author":"Nathan Reese Maher","tags":["abandoned","all-alone","alone","blackout","blankets","boogieman","books","bullies","bump-in-the-night","chapter-series","children-books","children-s-books","clubhouse","creatures","darkness","diversity","dolls","female-protagonists","fighting","flashlights","ghosts","ghouls","girl-power","hide-and-go-seek","hiding","horror","hula-hoop","hunting","jump-rope","kick-the-can","kids","lights-out","lost","monsters","night","no-adults","no-electricity","no-parents","no-rules","no-school","patches","post-apocalyptic","powerout","rebels","running","shelly-wunn","sok-market","stuffed-animals","superpowers","survival","terror","vampires"],"id":149922,"author_id":"Nathan+Reese+Maher"},{"text":"Honour looked so much like a child herself, confined to bed, a white nightgown, like one of those maudlin Victorian dolls. Her cheeks were red, like someone had painted them, but I knew it was from rubbing, wiping away her melancholy.","author":"Ruth Ahmed","tags":["childhood","dolls","melancholy","melancholy-suffering-happiness","sadness","sickness","victorian-dolls","victorian-era"],"id":169623,"author_id":"Ruth+Ahmed"},{"text":"It’s no big deal. It’s kind of like a tattoo. It won’t hurt, not too much, just a few stitches and it’ll be all over. It’s really interesting how it’s done. You won’t believe where your soul hides. Go on, take a guess. Where do you think it is?","author":"Nathan Reese Maher","tags":["abandoned-hope","all-alone","alone","blackout","blankets","boogieman","books","bullies","bump-in-the-night","chapter-series","children-books","children-s-books","clubhouse","creatures","darkness","diversity","dolls","female-protagonists","fighting","flashlights","ghosts","ghouls","girl-power","hide-and-go-seek","hiding","horror","hula-hoop","hunting","jump-rope","kick-the-can","kids","lights-out","lost","monsters","night","no-adults","no-electricity","no-parents","no-rules","no-school","patches","post-apocalyptic","powerout","rebels","running","shelly-wunn","sok-market","stuffed-animals","superpowers","survival","terror","vampires"],"id":173321,"author_id":"Nathan+Reese+Maher"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":26,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}