{"quotes":[{"text":"It's quite commonplace for a young man to fall in love and equally commonplace for him to be rejected, but come what may, I'll always be fond of you.","author":"Margaret Way","tags":["fondness","heartbreak","heartbroken","love","men","rejection","young-men"],"id":4944,"author_id":"Margaret+Way"},{"text":"...There was no point in sighing after what I could not have. It only distracted me from what I did have.","author":"Robin Hobb","tags":["desire","distract","empty","fond","fondness","have","miss","remember","reminiscence","seek","sigh","sorrow","want"],"id":8878,"author_id":"Robin+Hobb"},{"text":"On the contrary, having the amiable vanity which knits us to those who are fond of us, and disinclines us to those who are indifferent, and also a good grateful nature, the mere idea that a woman had a kindness towards him spun little threads of tenderness from out his heart towards hers.","author":"George Eliot","tags":["fondness","friendship","intimacy","love"],"id":16518,"author_id":"George+Eliot"},{"text":"The key to valuing something is to lose it and then realize how rare it was—after which you pray like mad to regain what you foolishly lost. The value of an item often depends upon how hard it is to attain.","author":"Richelle E. Goodrich","tags":["appreciation","esteem","fondness","regard","richelle","richelle-goodrich","value"],"id":43042,"author_id":"Richelle+E.+Goodrich"},{"text":"If you manage to live long enough, most of your greatest fears become fond memories to look back on.","author":"Ashly Lorenzana","tags":["fear","fondness","growth","identity","memory","personality"],"id":111360,"author_id":"Ashly+Lorenzana"},{"text":"Sticking to one person for a lifetime is not a waste of time or lack of better ones, it means you've found your place of eternity.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["affair","attachment","better","close","closeness","dwelling-place","eternity","finding-someone","fondness","forever","forever-love","glue","good-friends","home","it-takes-two","lack","life-and-living","lifetime","love","love-affair","love-one","love-ones","loyalty","magnetism","michael-bassey-johnson","one","one-person","personal-person","soulmate","sticking","stirrings","strong-bond","time","true-friends","two","unconditional-love","unity","waste"],"id":120562,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"I wish I could say we all lived happily ever after. I can't. But I can say we lived. Our love for Nate lives, and he's left us this piece of himself in his art; it was his gift to us. We know him through his art, and I can take comfort in that. I guess the thing about high school is, it's the moment when you start to cross from a being a kid to being an adult, and this journey to know yourself begins. Nate's journey ended to early, and I thought I had to run away to some far-off land to start mine. But, for now, it seems to me that I have enough to explore right here. There's a whole continent to discover in myself, and I know that it's love - love for my parents, my friends, my brother, and my art - that will guide me. Love will be my map.","author":"Lisa Ann Sandell","tags":["art","cora","experiences","fondness","friendship","guidance","life","life-changes","loneliness","love","quote","sadness"],"id":178147,"author_id":"Lisa+Ann+Sandell"},{"text":"If the way you've been treating me is a mark of fondness, maybe you'd better take a fresh look at your interpersonal communication skills.","author":"Susan Elizabeth Phillips","tags":["communication","fond","fondness","insult","interpersonal-communication","interpersonal-skills"],"id":307128,"author_id":"Susan+Elizabeth+Phillips"},{"text":"You know someone is special to you when you're literally captivated by them in even the little moments. The slightest thing they say or do, is like watching the universe unfold. And nothing else matters in those moments.Where you go about your day, \u0026 the most capricious of things send you into a whirlwind of thoughts connected to them. And a plethora of thoughts flood into your mind, for no apparent reason other than its them.Or perhaps, you randomly see a picture of them in your news feed \u0026 you just pause \u0026 look, \u0026 the world melts away \u0026 all time seems to stop, \u0026 there's a radiance that illuminates your life. And you focus on the little details, \u0026 wish you could just capture every single detail vividly. And you see their eyes, \u0026 though they're merely a moment in time, their eyes are so beautiful, that they transcend the medium \u0026 are as if they're there looking back. And all you can do it look into them. Knowing those eyes are what you could look into endlessly. And you know that it's all you could ever want, if for just a single moment in time.Or they share their thoughts, \u0026 you rack your brain around how they think. An you just want to understand \u0026 know more of their thoughts, simply because they're theirs.They, to you, are a more elegant work of art than even the finest painting, songs or poems of the great artists. And you know that even the most renowned artist couldn't conceive of a more perfect image of beauty. Leonardo, Van Gough, Rembrandt, Picasso, the most renowned artist of time would go mad in attempts to capture even a fraction of such a beautiful sight. That even Shakespeare couldn't put such a person into words. Though there's no doubt they're worthy of being the subject of a Shakespearean sonnet. But it could do no justice to their reality, that because there are no words that truly could ever describe them, even such an attempt would be like trying to describe the complex, wondrous \u0026 marvelous nature of the universe in but a single word.That no words, paintings, pictures, or thought could describe them \u0026 encapsulate the essence of their grace. And that though no one is truly perfect, they as a person through your eyes, reach a state as near perfect as you could imagine. And even dreams couldn't conceive of a greater wonder of life. It's as if the sum of all the beauty in the world can be found within this one person.It's wonderful, inspiring, breathtaking. Or rather, it's a whirlwind of emotions. Where the wonder \u0026 awe bleed into \u0026 merge with the disheartening longing, utter belief that you could not for a second touch that with you so desperately struggle \u0026 grasp for \u0026 an inability to even breath in the moments you're interacting with them.But it's all the more maddening because with all the wanting of your heart, you know it's wanting for something it could never have. That for all your wanting, you know such things are simply \u0026 purely unobtainable. And all you can do is hold to adoration \u0026 hopes. Hopes that you in your heart know fully are hopeless, but which you can't help but maintain. I think few things are more maddening than that feelings.Most people, when face with such a situation, might despair \u0026 grow cynical. But so seldom do we ever meet someone who so maddeningly captivates us, so seldom someone who's very existence throws your world upside down.In a time in which genuine emotion is a scarcity. And pseudo-emotions, frivolous \u0026 quick to fade, are rampant. The genuine article is something I cherish.  When something makes you feel anything, it's something amazing. Regardless if it's a fervent concoction of the greatest good \u0026 the saddest sad. The experience of meeting such a person, who can spark such thoughts \u0026 feeling, is a genuine rarity. One in which a given person could go a lifetime without experiencing, but which is worth experiencing. And something that, though ultimately heartbreaking, I wouldn't give up experiencing.","author":"Trevor Driggers","tags":["adoration","endearment","fondness","la-douleur-exquise","longing","longing-for-someone","love","loving-someone","romance","unobtainable","unrequited-love","untouchable"],"id":342346,"author_id":"Trevor+Driggers"},{"text":"When you love someone, you end up caring about each and every person they love. When you hate someone, you end up caring about every single person who hates them.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["abhor","abhorrence","abominate","abomination","adoration","animosity","antipathy","ardor","attachment","aversion-hostility","besottedness","boyfriend","boyfriends","care","caring","contempt","dating","deep-affection","desire","despise","detest","detestation","devotion","disgust","dislike","distaste","doting","endearment","enemies","enemy","enmity","execration","family","fondness","friend","friends","girlfriend","girlfriends","hate","hatred","husband","husbands","idolization","infatuation","intimacy","loathe","loathing","love","loved-ones","lover","lust","marriage","nearest-and-dearest","odium","partner","passion","relationship","relationship-advice","relationships","revulsion","spouse","spouses","tenderness","warmth","wedding","wife","wives","worship","yearning"],"id":350731,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":17,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}