{"quotes":[{"text":"NOT UNTIL I MET YOUNot until I felt your sunshine,Did I realize that I had been in the shade.Not until I saw all your colors,Did I realize that mine had faded.Not until I heard your dreams,Did I realize that I was still sleeping.And not until I experienced my life with you,Did I realize that I was barelyBreathing.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["alive","bored","boredom","breathing","colors","complete","completeness","dying","finding-love","fire","flame","life","living","love","love-letter-shade","lover","mate","new-dreams","purpose","relationships","sleeping","soul-mate","soulmate","sunshine","twin","whole"],"id":2574,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"I'm not the settling-down type, I'm afraid. I think I'm cursed with a touch of Dating ADD.","author":"Sherri Rifkin","tags":["dating","finding-love","frustration","settling-down"],"id":20406,"author_id":"Sherri+Rifkin"},{"text":"God has a perfect plan and purpose for your life.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["advice","affirmations","belief","believe","believe-in-god","christian","destiny","fate","finding-love","finding-your-way","future-of-man","future-plans","god","god-s-grace","hope","inspiration","inspiring","life","life-and-living","life-philosophy","motivation","path","plan","praying","purpose","purpose-driven-life","self-awareness","self-realization","you","your-journey","your-life","your-love"],"id":20514,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"It is not until you rhyme with a person that makes you their perfect match, it is when you are satisfied with each others peculiarities, and find jewels in their loopholes.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["compatibility","diamond","difference","finding-love","flaw","friends","friendship","friendships","gold","ideal","jewel","jewels","loophole","loopholes","love","love-life","oneness","peculiarities","peculiarity","perfect","perfect-match","real-friends","rhyme","satisfaction","silver","soulmate","together","true-friends","true-love","two"],"id":23975,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"Say it.'Don't do this to me...' I whispered painfully. 'We can't do this again.'You're a horrible liar,' Eli growled as he pressed his fingers into my thighs. He watched me, his gaze all-consuming, and said, 'Your eyes are as dark as a castle moat by midnight, mi cielo. Lower your drawbridge and let me cross; let me in.'Eli, I-'Forget him. For the next hour and a half, you're going to do everything that makes you wonder in this world. And then I'm going to love you again.","author":"Nadège Richards","tags":["finding-love","heartbreak","heaven","hiding-love","life","love","pain","relationships","resisting-love","wonder"],"id":39680,"author_id":"Nad%C3%A8ge+Richards"},{"text":"Marry the person who makes you feel like you can face life together. Because that’s what it’s about. It’s about facing life together.","author":"C. JoyBell C.","tags":["finding-love","how-to-marry","marriage","marriage-advice","relationship-advice","relationships","who-to-marry","wisdom"],"id":51222,"author_id":"C.+JoyBell+C."},{"text":"These days when you kiss a prince you often run the risk of turning him into a frog. But don't let the ogres in shining armor get you down. There is no need for distress - you don't want to be anyone's damsel anyway. Simply remind yourself that you are busy racking up those 'frequent failure points' that will eventually pay for an all expenses paid trip to Mr Right.","author":"Anthon St. Maarten","tags":["damsel-in-distress","dating","disaster-date","everlasting-love","failure-relationship","fairy-tales","fairy-tales-for-adults","fairytale","fairytale-romance","finding-love","frog-prince","frog-wisdom","frogs","kissing-frogs","kissing","kissing-spells","knight-in-shining-armor","love-hurts","love","love-story","love-waits","lovers","mr-right","myths","ogre","relationship-advice","relationship-problems","relationships","romance","soulmate","soulmate-secret","true-love-spell","twin-flames"],"id":68213,"author_id":"Anthon+St.+Maarten"},{"text":"Whatever he had found, it made him a better person. Maybe that's what love was, finding the person who brings out the best in you and eliminates the worst.","author":"Diana Holquist","tags":["change","finding-love"],"id":84076,"author_id":"Diana+Holquist"},{"text":"Sometimes your inability to let go has nothing to do with real love and everything to do with what that person represents in your life. Why do you give them so much importance? Why do you believe that God doesn't love you enough that he would not bring someone else into your life? Why do you put up with less than you deserve?","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["confidence","courting","dating","family","finding-love","food-for-thought","friends","love","relationships","relationships-101","self-esteem","soulmates","stayingpositiveu-com","suitor"],"id":99588,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"You’re thinking, maybe it would be easier to let it sliplet it gosay ”I give up” one last time and give him a sad smile.You’re thinkingit shouldn’t be this hard,shouldn’t be this dark,thinkinglove could flow easily with no holding backand you’ve seen others find their match and build something greattogether,of each other,like two halves fitting perfectly and now they achieve great thingsone by one, always together, and it seems grand.But you love him. Love him like a black stone in your chest you couldn’t live without because it fits in there. Makes you who you are and the thought of him gone—no more—makes your chest tighten up and maybe this is your fairytale. Maybe this is your castle.You could get it all on a shiny piece of glass with wooden stools and a neverending blooming gardenbut that’s not yours. This is yours. The cracks and the faults, the ugly words in the winterwalking home alone and angrybut falling asleep thinking you love him.This is your fairy tale. The quiet in the hallway, wishing for him to turn around, tell you to stay, tell you to please don’t go I need youlike you need meand maybe it’s not a Jane Austen novel but this is your novel and your castleand you can run from it your whole life but this is herein front of you.Maybe nurture it?Sweet girl, maybe close the world off and look at him for an houror two.This is your fairy. It ain’t perfect and it ain’t honey sweet with roses on the bed.It’s real and raw and ugly at times. But this is your love. Don’t throw it away searching for someone else’s love. Don’t be greedy. Instead, shelter it. Protect it. Capture every second of easy, pull through every storm of hardship. And when you can, look at him, lying next to you, trusting you not to harm him. Trusting you not to go. Be someone’s someone for someone.Be that someone for him.That’s your fairy tale. This is your castle.Now move in. Build a home. Build a house. Build a safety around things you love. It’s yours if you make it so.Welcome home, sweet girl, it will be all be fine.","author":"Charlotte Eriksson","tags":["castle","don-t-go","fairy","fairy-tale","finding-home","finding-love","garden","girl","hardship","heartache","heartbreak","her","him","jane-austen","looking-for-love","love","love-poem","love-poetry","love","novel","romance","roses","sadness","safety","stay","true-love","trust","trusting","two","welcome-home","winter","you-and-i","young","young-love","your-castle"],"id":109827,"author_id":"Charlotte+Eriksson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":42,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}