{"quotes":[{"text":"But fear and fascination are yokefellows, oxen out of step but pulling in the same direction...","author":"Winston Graham","tags":["fascination","fear"],"id":100,"author_id":"Winston+Graham"},{"text":"There is something strangely ecstatic, oddly fascinating and infinitely magnetic about unrequited love.","author":"Arshpreet Kaur","tags":["excerpt","excerpts","fascinating","fascination","infinite","infinite-love","love","love","magnetic","magnetism","odd","possibilities","quotes","to-live-by","unrequited","unrequited-love"],"id":3368,"author_id":"Arshpreet+Kaur"},{"text":"There is a fascination with fear. It grabs our attention.","author":"Bernard Beckett","tags":["attention","fascination","our "],"id":38603,"author_id":"Bernard+Beckett"},{"text":"Insanity comes in two basic varieties: slow and fast... Viscosity and Velocity are opposites, yet they can look the same. Viscosity causes the stillness of disinclination; velocity causes the stillness of fascination. An observer can't tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled, or because inner life is transfixingly busy.","author":"Susanna Kaysen","tags":["fascination","insanity","stillness","velocity","viscosity"],"id":65470,"author_id":"Susanna+Kaysen"},{"text":"The world is endlessly fascinating to those who take the time to look.","author":"Marty Rubin","tags":["fascination","looking","the-world","wonder"],"id":70237,"author_id":"Marty+Rubin"},{"text":"Lonely you linger in a league above poetry.","author":"Mie Hansson","tags":["admirable-qualities","admiration","danish-poetry","fascination","idolising","idols-of-the-heart","mie-hansson","poetry","where-pain-thrives"],"id":76487,"author_id":"Mie+Hansson"},{"text":"As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination.","author":"Elizabeth Kostova","tags":["evil","fascination","human-history"],"id":92974,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Kostova"},{"text":"He was like one of those pictures full of small errors, the kind you could only pick out by searching the image from every angle, and even then, a few always slipped by. On the surface, Eli seemed perfectly normal, but now and then Victor would catch a crack, a sideways glance, a moment when his roommate's face and his words, his look and his meaning, would not line up. Those fleeting slices fascinated Victor. It was like watching two people, one hiding in the other's skin. And their skin was always too dry, on the verge of cracking and showing the color of the thing beneath.","author":"Victoria Schwab","tags":["angle","beneath","crack","dry","error","false","fascinate","fascination","find","glance","hide","hiding","lie","look","mask","normal","people","perfect","picture","search","skin","surface","thing","two","under"],"id":115944,"author_id":"Victoria+Schwab"},{"text":"She told a story of being so fixated on the beautiful features of a playmate that she collided with a tree and skinned her own face.","author":"Jean Nathan","tags":["beauty","beauty","fascination"],"id":148334,"author_id":"Jean+Nathan"},{"text":"I realized, when I saw the forest burning, how fascinating the firelight is. It's beautiful, and people stare at it, don't they? It destroys and kills people, but humans love it. Is it because they crave their own destruction, Sam? I want to understand your kind. I am going out into the wider world, and I must learn. (Chapter Twenty-Seven | 1 Hour, 29 Minutes).","author":"Michael Grant","tags":["beauty-in-nature","blindness-of-man","darkness","destruction","fascination","good-and-evil","humanity","humanity-and-society","learning","light","light-and-darkness","revealing","understanding-oneself-and-others","world"],"id":177083,"author_id":"Michael+Grant"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":28,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}