{"quotes":[{"text":"The only furniture in the dank space was a flimsy cot. Water dripped steadily in one corner. A hole in the floor appeared to serve as a latrine. What most caught Kendra's eye were the messages scratched on the wall. She roamed the cell, reading the crudely inscribed phrases.'Seth rules!Welcome to Seth's House.Seth rocks!Seth was here. Now it's your turn.Seth Sorenson forever.Enjoy the food!If you're reading this, you can read.All roads lead to Seth.Is it still dripping?Seth haunts these halls.You're in a Turkish prison!Seth is the man!Use the meal mats as toilet paper.' And so forth.Cold, hopeless, and alone, Kendra found herself giggling at the messages her brother had scrawled. He must have been so bored!","author":"Brandon Mull","tags":["brother-and-sister","cheer-up","dungeon","funny","hopeless","kendra-sorenson","messages","prison","seth-sorenson"],"id":67624,"author_id":"Brandon+Mull"},{"text":"People either build a castle or a dungeon. The former by their virtues, pull people into positive edifices with gainful impression. The later by their vices, push people into negative huts with painful oppression.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["bad","castle","castles","dungeon","dungeons","edifice","edifices","food-for-thought","gain","gainful","gains","good","good-or-bad","heal","impress","impression","israelmore-ayivor","kill","lead-people","leader","leaders","leadership","manipulate","manipulations","manipulator","manipulators","mislead","misleader","misleaders","oppress","oppression","oppressive","oppressor","oppressors","pain","pain-and-gain","painful","pains","people","personal-development","push","self-improvement","vice","vices","virtue","virtues"],"id":89360,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet.","author":"George W. Bush","tags":["babies","bushism","children","dungeon","humor","internet","living"],"id":121914,"author_id":"George+W.+Bush"},{"text":"How clear everything becomes when you look from the darkness of a dungeon!","author":"Umberto Eco","tags":["clearness","darkness","dungeon"],"id":171077,"author_id":"Umberto+Eco"},{"text":"A fleeting moment can become an eternity. From a past encounter everything may disappear in the dungeon of forgetfulness. A few furtive flashes or innocent twinkles can survive, though. Some immaterial details may remain marked in our memory, forever. A significant look, a salient colour or a unforeseen gesture may abide, indelibly engraved in our mind. ( 'Girl in blue' ).","author":"Erik Pevernagie","tags":["abide","blue","color","details","disappear","dungeon","encounter","engraved","etrenity","flashes","fleeting","forgetfulness","furtive","gesture","girl","immaterial","indelible","innocent","look","marked","memory","mind","moment","past","salient","significant","survive","twinkle","unforeseen"],"id":196865,"author_id":"Erik+Pevernagie"},{"text":"This exists. It can be seen. It can be touched. These in pace, these dungeons, these iron hinges, these necklets, that lofty peep-hole on a level with the river's current, that box of stone closed with a lid of granite like a tomb, with this difference, that the dead man here was a living being, that soil which is but mud, that vault hole, those oozing walls, --what declaimers!","author":"Victor Hugo","tags":["dungeon","evil","hypocrisy","suffering","torture"],"id":222675,"author_id":"Victor+Hugo"},{"text":"I used to read in books how our fathers persecuted mankind. But I never appreciated it. I did not really appreciate the infamies that have been committed in the name of religion, until I saw the iron arguments that Christians used. I saw the Thumbscrew—two little pieces of iron, armed on the inner surfaces with protuberances, to prevent their slipping; through each end a screw uniting the two pieces. And when some man denied the efficacy of baptism, or may be said, 'I do not believe that a fish ever swallowed a man to keep him from drowning,' then they put his thumb between these pieces of iron and in the name of love and universal forgiveness, began to screw these pieces together. When this was done most men said, 'I will recant.' Probably I should have done the same. Probably I would have said: 'Stop; I will admit anything that you wish; I will admit that there is one god or a million, one hell or a billion; suit yourselves; but stop.'But there was now and then a man who would not swerve the breadth of a hair. There was now and then some sublime heart, willing to die for an intellectual conviction. Had it not been for such men, we would be savages to-night. Had it not been for a few brave, heroic souls in every age, we would have been cannibals, with pictures of wild beasts tattooed upon our flesh, dancing around some dried snake f.","author":"Robert G. Ingersoll","tags":["agony","blasphemy","bravery","darkness","dungeon","heresy","heroic","heroism","martyr","noble","rack","suffer","thankful","thumbscrew","torture","victim"],"id":279105,"author_id":"Robert+G.+Ingersoll"},{"text":"Loving me is like entering a dungeon with a lot of doors. I cannot guarantee you that you will get the key of every door you come across, I cannot tell you which door leads you where and what is behind it, I cannot assure you that you will head back out again the way you came in. All I can say is if you manage to open every right door and the last one too, I will make you one of my secrets forever, you will see and feel things that you have never come across, which will never let you leave again from the paradise that you have reached.","author":"Akshay Vasu","tags":["doors","dungeon","forever","key","monsters","paradise","secrets"],"id":330882,"author_id":"Akshay+Vasu"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":8,"pages":1}}