{"quotes":[{"text":"I didn’t answer. We were not buddies. We could not chat about the proximity of our offices, or football, or forgiveness.","author":"Kimberly Novosel","tags":["enemies","exes","football","forgiveness","heartbreak","love","relationships"],"id":6418,"author_id":"Kimberly+Novosel"},{"text":"I thought I was over him! So why did my heart still rip? Why did I still feel this sorrow? I got this strange sensation that God was with me. And he was angry. He was very angry--not at me and not at Jack. God was angry at the pain I was going through. I wondered if that was why God hated sin, because of the destruction it caused. For a moment I felt awe for a God who loved me enough to hate the things that hurt me without hating me for causing them.","author":"Susan E. Isaacs","tags":["break-ups","exes","god-s-love","life","missing-someone","sin","sorrow"],"id":54867,"author_id":"Susan+E.+Isaacs"},{"text":"Some people don’t realize what they have until it’s gone, but that does not always mean they are supposed to get it back.","author":"Stephan Labossiere","tags":["break-ups","ex","exes","relationships"],"id":80968,"author_id":"Stephan+Labossiere"},{"text":"Unbeknown to us, some of the people who we hope are missing us wherever they are do miss us; some miss someone else; and some are dead.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","ex","ex-husband","ex-lover","ex-partner","ex-wife","exes","funny","hilarious","humor","humorous","humour","joke","jokes","long-for","miss","missing","satire"],"id":101669,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Sarah’. She had thought they had thrown that bit of history into the trash, and the trash into the incinerator. But apparently ‘Sarah’ had only been thrown into a plastic bag and left in the closet under the bathroom sink, where the packet gathered mold and fungus and slowly acquired a signature stink. That stench was now slowly escaping from between the gap of the doors and the bathroom floor. Sarah was Siddharth’s ex.","author":"Shweta Ganesh Kumar","tags":["ex-girlfriends","exes","past"],"id":166485,"author_id":"Shweta+Ganesh+Kumar"},{"text":"Men who make all the decisions in a relationship are also the ones who will blame you when they don’t work out as they expected.","author":"Heather Chapple","tags":["blame","decisions","exes","failed-relationships","heartbreak","lost-love","over","relationships","work-out"],"id":225093,"author_id":"Heather+Chapple"},{"text":"But friendship meant you at least planted the seed for them, love meant allowing them the ability to weed their own garden until it was something healthy and thriving, blooming and bright and smelling of heather and tiger lilies.","author":"Shannon Noelle Long","tags":["carolina-skye","exes","friends","friendship","gardens","love"],"id":234103,"author_id":"Shannon+Noelle+Long"},{"text":"Some people each left their spouse or lover because he or she was no longer the primary source of their happiness; some, because their spouse or lover was, at that time, the primary source of their unhappiness.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["breakup","breakups","dead","death","divorce","divorcee","divorcees","divorces","engagement","engagement-ring","engagement-rings","engagements","ex","exes","expectation","expectations","happiness","happy","husband","husbands","love","marriages","marry","proposal","proposals","propose","relationship","relationships","source","sources","spouse","spouses","unhappiness","unhappy","wedding","weddings","wife","wives"],"id":234823,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Realizing that many you once thought the world of are nothing but glorified assholes means you've grown up.","author":"Crystal Woods","tags":["ass-holes","disappointment","employment","exes","growing-up","jobs","lovers","realization","relationships"],"id":304408,"author_id":"Crystal+Woods"},{"text":"Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each other still.","author":"Whitney Otto","tags":["exes","friendship","love"],"id":311073,"author_id":"Whitney+Otto"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":15,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}