{"quotes":[{"text":"Trust is the strongest weapon.","author":"Lauren DeStefano","tags":["fever","lauren-destefano","the-chemical-garden","trust","weapon"],"id":25439,"author_id":"Lauren+DeStefano"},{"text":"Wedding fever is one of the scariest diseases I have ever seen.","author":"Jessica Valenti","tags":["fever","diseases","seen "],"id":34185,"author_id":"Jessica+Valenti"},{"text":"The world was a sick animal, a sort of huge cancerous tumour, a thing of bubbling liquids, whitish patches, dribbling pus, fantastic pimples of dead skin that grew in all directions, swelled up, became more and more like fuzzy hair. The right thing would be to go away, to vanish for ever from the face of the sun.","author":"Jean-Marie G. Le Clézio","tags":["fever","sick","world"],"id":75749,"author_id":"Jean-Marie+G.+Le+Cl%C3%A9zio"},{"text":"But as in the degrees of sickness thou art to submit to God, so in the kind of it (supposing equal degrees) thou art to be altogether indifferent whether God call thee by a consumption or an asthma, by a dropsy or palsy, by a fever in thy humours, or a fever in your spirits; because all such nicety of choice is nothing but a colour to a legitimate impatience, and to make an excuse to murmur privately, and for circumstances, when in the sum of affairs we durst not own impatience.”Jeremy Taylor’s “Holy Dying”, extract from chapter IV.I (The Practice of Patience) para 5.","author":"Jeremey Taylor","tags":["affair","asthma","choice","consumption","death","dropsy","dying","fever","impatient","palsy","sick","spirit"],"id":80410,"author_id":"Jeremey+Taylor"},{"text":"They got under each of my shoulders and pulled me up, Padma walking in front of me and holding her arms out for good measure. I walked on my own, but I knew that if they hadn’t been there, I might have fallen more than once. Side by side, we marched into the Ocean, all of us crying for.","author":"Kiera Cass","tags":["care","elizabeth","fever","her","kahlen","loved","miaka","ocean","padma","sick","sleep","stay","tired","worried"],"id":84406,"author_id":"Kiera+Cass"},{"text":"He walks the soft grass, wet with fresh rain, jeans slung low on his hips and shirt hanging open, still dripping from the fevered maelstrom that set fire to the night sky. Fury in his step and passion furrowing his brow...He is my perfect storm...","author":"Virginia Alison","tags":["fever","fire","maelstrom","night","passion","rain","storm"],"id":87592,"author_id":"Virginia+Alison"},{"text":"Then why was his tongue in your mouth? Was he conducting a clinical test of your gag reflex?' He smiled, but not nicely. 'How is your gag reflex, Ms. Lane? Are you a hair trigger?'Barrons likes to use sexual innuendo to try to shut me up. I think he expects the well-raised southern belle in me will think eew and back off. Sometimes, I do think eew, but I don't back off. 'I'm a spitter, if that's what you're asking.' I flashed him a too-sweet smile.'Didn't look that way to me. I think you're a swallower. His tongue was halfway to China and you were still taking it.'Jealous?","author":"Karen Marie Moning","tags":["barrons","fever","jealousy","kissing","mac"],"id":99645,"author_id":"Karen+Marie+Moning"},{"text":"Perhaps [he had] persevered for too long, in the face of too many obstacles, his hair proof of his tenacity - the stark black streaked with white or, in certain light, stark white shot through with black, each strand of white attributable to the jungle fever (so cold it burned, his skin glacial), each strand of black a testament to being alive afterwards.","author":"Jeff VanderMeer","tags":["fever","hair","perseverance","tenacity","white-hair"],"id":105708,"author_id":"Jeff+VanderMeer"},{"text":"He looks at me, and I don't know what he sees. I used to think it was Rose. But she's not here with us now, in this room. It's just him and me, and the books. I feel like our lives are in those books. I feel like all the words on the pages are for us.","author":"Lauren DeStefano","tags":["books","chemical-garden-trilogy","fever","lauren-destefano","library","sadness","sever","wither"],"id":110780,"author_id":"Lauren+DeStefano"},{"text":"How beautiful are these bangles! But if you put them on a man, he will not like it because he has assessed his own worth. One cannot be the ‘thermometer (gauge)’ as well as the ‘fever’, both cannot be one.","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["beautiful","fever","spiritual","spiritual","thermometer"],"id":143747,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":23,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}