{"quotes":[{"text":"But what was there to say?Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there was a snuffling in the hollows at the base of a lovely throat. Only that a hard honey-colored shoulder had a semicircle of teethmarks on it. Only that they held each other close, long after it was over. Only that what they shared that night was not happiness, but hideous grief.Only that once again they broke the Love Laws. That lay down who should be loved. And how. And how much.","author":"Arundhati Roy","tags":["emptiness","forbidden","grief","happiness","inspirational","laws","love","quietness","sadness"],"id":4613,"author_id":"Arundhati+Roy"},{"text":"It sounds like a fairy-tale, but not only that; this story of what man by his science and practical inventions has achieved on this earth, where he first appeared as a weakly member of the animal kingdom, and on which each individual of his species must ever again appear as a helpless infant... Is a direct fulfilment of all, or of most, of the dearest wishes in his fairy-tales. All these possessions he has acquired through culture. Long ago he formed an ideal conception of omnipotence and omniscience which he embodied in his gods. Whatever seemed unattainable to his desires - or forbidden to him - he attributed to these gods. One may say, therefore, that these gods were the ideals of his culture. Now he has himself approached very near to realizing this ideal, he has nearly become a god himself. But only, it is true, in the way that ideals are usually realized in the general experience of humanity. Not completely; in some respects not at all, in others only by halves. Man has become a god by means of artificial limbs, so to speak, quite magnificent when equipped with all his accessory organs; but they do not grow on him and they still give him trouble at times... Future ages will produce further great advances in this realm of culture, probably inconceivable now, and will increase man's likeness to a god still more.","author":"Sigmund Freud","tags":["culture","desire","fairy-tale","forbidden","fulfillment","future","gods","humanity","mankind","omnipotence","omniscience","prediction","science","wish"],"id":22469,"author_id":"Sigmund+Freud"},{"text":"You kissed me once and now you feel as if you’ve got some special kind of licence to do it whenever you want?","author":"Simona Panova","tags":["allow","boy","desire","desires","fancy","flirt","forbid","forbidden","girl","goth","gothic","kiss","kissing","let","licence","longing","love","loved","loving","once","permission","relationship","relationships","romance","special","suspense","twice","want","wish","yearn","yearning","young-adult","young-adult-gothic-romance","young-adult-romance"],"id":24769,"author_id":"Simona+Panova"},{"text":"We hunger in earnest for that which we cannot consume.","author":"Nenia Campbell","tags":["cravings","denial","desire","desires","forbidden","forbidden-fruit","lust","needs","temptation","wants"],"id":32257,"author_id":"Nenia+Campbell"},{"text":"At what point do you give up— decide enough is enough? There is only one answer really. Never.","author":"Tabitha Suzuma","tags":["forbidden","tabitha-suzuma","tragedy"],"id":36545,"author_id":"Tabitha+Suzuma"},{"text":"There was no time for kissing but she wanted him to know that in the future there would be. A kiss in so much loneliness was like a hand pulling you up out of the water, scooping you up from a place of drowning and into the reckless abundance of air. A kiss, another kiss.","author":"Ann Patchett","tags":["carmen","forbidden","gen","kiss","love","save"],"id":60014,"author_id":"Ann+Patchett"},{"text":"Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread. They may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.","author":"Tyron Edwards","tags":["appetite","bread","death","end","forbidden","moment","pleasure","poison","sin"],"id":64659,"author_id":"Tyron+Edwards"},{"text":"Keep your words. This pain is no life.' 'You only feel pain because you're alive, boy!' the keeper thundered. 'This is the mystery of it. Life is lived on the ragged edge of the cliff. Fall off and you might die, but run from it and you are already dead!","author":"Ted Dekker","tags":["death","forbidden","life","living","mortal","ted-dekker","tosca-lee"],"id":70170,"author_id":"Ted+Dekker"},{"text":"As the light begins to intensify, so does my misery, and I wonder how it is possible to hurt so much when nothing is wrong.","author":"Tabitha Suzuma","tags":["bhie","forbidden","hurt","lochan","love","tabitha-suzuma"],"id":77159,"author_id":"Tabitha+Suzuma"},{"text":"There are many unspeakable words, forgotten, or forbidden.Great thanks to the poets who make them all become reachable.","author":"Toba Beta","tags":["forbidden","forgotten","poet","reachable","thanks","unspeakable"],"id":80589,"author_id":"Toba+Beta"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":50,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}