{"quotes":[{"text":"Who is the other woman whose photograph I do not have? If my mother was the first in my life, she was the last: my lover and my downfall, my hope and my despair. Her photographs I burned in an ashtray, one at a time - some might say to be rid of the evidence. Her name was Theresa Aden: Theresa like the saint; Aden like Eden, complete with snake.","author":"Philip Sington","tags":["eden","lovers","photographs","women"],"id":9555,"author_id":"Philip+Sington"},{"text":"Freeways flickering; cell phones chiming a tuneWe're riding to Utopia; road map says we'll be arriving soonCaptains of the old order clinging to the reinsAssuring us these aches inside are only growing painsBut it's a long road out of Eden(...)Behold the bitten apple, the power of the toolsBut all the knowledge in the world is of no use to foolsAnd it's a long road out of Eden.","author":"Eagles","tags":["civilization","eden","materialism","self-destruction","utopia"],"id":18467,"author_id":"Eagles"},{"text":"The poet believed that 'Beauty' first entered the world not at its creation, nor with the first garden, the first sunrise, the birth of the first man and woman and their first sexual act. The poet believed that 'Beauty' entered the world the day the first child blushed.","author":"Roman Payne","tags":["adam-and-eve","beauty","blush","blushing","childhood","childlike","childlikeness","children","eden","innocence","payne","roman-payne","romance"],"id":21902,"author_id":"Roman+Payne"},{"text":"I took that mint because I wanted to. I wanted to remember who I was. I wanted to remember my family. Most of all, I wanted to remember you. I wanted to remember what we are together, and how we got to that point. I wanted you to know I remember all of those precious moments. And if I don’t make it through this, I wanted to go knowing I love you. I wanted you to know I remember why I love you.","author":"Lindsay J. Pryor","tags":["angel","blood-bound","eden","jessie"],"id":41218,"author_id":"Lindsay+J.+Pryor"},{"text":"The Serpent, to my interpretation, was pain.","author":"William Goldman","tags":["bible","christianity","eden","pain","serpent","snake","suffering"],"id":52987,"author_id":"William+Goldman"},{"text":"It wasn't love at first sight. They ran into each other one morning in a sunny clearing in the forest. A few moments of stunned silence. `Glockenspiel,' Adam pronounced, thinking (but with terrible doubt) he'd found another animal in search of a name. When Eve approached him, proffering a handful of elderberries, he threw a stick at her and ran away.","author":"Glen Duncan","tags":["adam","bible","eden","eve","funny"],"id":63237,"author_id":"Glen+Duncan"},{"text":"The first sight I beheld when I first awakened was a pair of eyes filled with pure adoration and a joyful grin that shone more brightly than the afternoon sun. Though he hadn’t spoken a single word, I knew exactly who he was. He was my creator … my Lord … my God.","author":"Kristen Reed","tags":["adam","bible","christian","eden","eve","fantasy","fiction","garden"],"id":71059,"author_id":"Kristen+Reed"},{"text":"June laughs. 'I have to say, you look better than most people I see. I've heard a lot about you.'I hear about you a lot too,' Eden replies in a rush, 'mostly from Daniel. He thinks you're really hot.","author":"Marie Lu","tags":["champion","day","eden","funny","june-iparis","laugh-out-loud"],"id":89844,"author_id":"Marie+Lu"},{"text":"When you have gone beyond thinking, and if you can still remain alert, aware, as if one is fast asleep but still alert—deep down at the very core of one’s being a lamp goes on burning, a small candle of light—then you will see your original face. And to see your original face is to be back in the Garden of Eden.","author":"Osho","tags":["candle","eden","face","light","original","thinking"],"id":94244,"author_id":"Osho"},{"text":"When do we get to the part where I get inspired by this wonder boy and my seriously bitchy attitude toward men is miraculously healed?","author":"H. Raven Rose","tags":["anger","bitchy","eden","questions-in-life"],"id":96243,"author_id":"H.+Raven+Rose"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":41,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}