{"quotes":[{"text":"I know you not quite wellYet I foolishly surrender my mind to you. Slowly and carefully you have cast a spellNow my virgin heart only longs for you. There is no need to push, I am already falling. Once proudly tall, I’m no longer standing. Knowing well that I am doomed to misery,I will roll the dice and take delight in my suffering.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["beguile","bewitch","break-up","cast","delight","dice","doom","ex","fall","falling","foolish","game-over","heart","in-love","know","lose","love-martyr","love-poem","martyr","martyrdom","masochism","masochist","mind","misery","on-purpose","push","relationship","seduce","seduced","self-imposed","spell","standing","suffer","suffering","surrender","virgin"],"id":1098,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"I don't even know how long she sobs. Time ceases to pass, and she cries, cries, cries. Clutches me and makes these sounds of a soul being ripped in two, the grief so long denied taking its toll. Fermented grief is far more potent.","author":"Jasinda Wilder","tags":["colton","cries","falling","falling-into-you","grief","heartbreaking","jasinda-wilder","nell","sobs","soul"],"id":2090,"author_id":"Jasinda+Wilder"},{"text":"Once upon a time, there was a man as great as the gods…But even the great can tremble with fear.Even the great can fall.","author":"Mary E. Pearson","tags":["death","fall","falling","fate","fear","god","gods","great-as-the-god","kiss","life","man","once-upon-a-time","romance","tremble"],"id":3542,"author_id":"Mary+E.+Pearson"},{"text":"When you fall for your appetite too early, you may not be able to endure to the end.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["appetite","appetizer","delay-your-gratification","endurance","endure","fail","fall","falling","food-for-thought","inspirational","inspirations","israelmore-ayivor","kill-your-appetite","motivational","motivations","personal-development","pleasurable","pleasure","pleasures"],"id":3622,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"The splendid thingabout falling apartsilently...Is thatyou can start overas many timesas you like.","author":"Sanober Khan","tags":["deep","deep-thoughts","endings","failures","falling","falling-apart","inspirational","life-lessons","life-path","life","new-beginnings","positive-thinking","profound","silence"],"id":13659,"author_id":"Sanober+Khan"},{"text":"We can be seized with panic of the fall, or inspired by the potential that lies within the fall.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["afraid","fail","failing","failure","fall","fallen","falling","fear","fearful","opportunities","opportunity","panic","perspective","possibility","potential","seize","seized"],"id":15548,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"It wasn't supposed to. It was just supposed to stop you from hurting yourself.” “It helps—” “No it doesn't. It just pushes it away temporarily. Just like the booze.” “But I need—” “You need to let yourself feel. Feel it, own it. Then move on.” “You make it sound so easy.” Bitterness drips from each syllable. “It’s not. It’s the fucking hardest thing a person can do.” I smooth a damp strand out of her face and away from my mouth. “It’s the hardest fucking thing. It’s why we drink and do drugs and fight. It’s why I play music and build engines.","author":"Jasinda Wilder","tags":["bitterness","colton","cope","coping","cutting","drinking","falling","falling-into-you","feel","feeling","fighting","grief","hurting","jasinda-wilder","music","nell","relief","words"],"id":16597,"author_id":"Jasinda+Wilder"},{"text":"To fall down is to face the weakness of my humanity, test the mettle of my character, and push the limits of my strength. Therefore, falling down will tell me who I am far more clearly than most things I might learn when I’m standing up.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["character","clarity","defeat","failure","fall","falling","humanity","identity","insight","learn","limits","mettle","self-understanding","strength","test","testing","weakness"],"id":25539,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"But new love only lasts so long, and then you crash back into the real people you are, and from as high as we were, it's a very long fall, and we hit the ground with a thud.","author":"Marya Hornbacher","tags":["bipolar-disorder","crashing","falling","love","mental-illness","new-love"],"id":31084,"author_id":"Marya+Hornbacher"},{"text":"Perhaps fate brought us together,And the incidents in between made us close,Falling in love was a simple choice,But breaking my heart, that was yours.","author":"Tanzy Sayadi","tags":["choice","close","falling","fate","heart-break","heart-broken","in-love","incidents"],"id":35551,"author_id":"Tanzy+Sayadi"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":149,"pages":15,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}