{"quotes":[{"text":"Um...' Hazel faltered. 'You mean you won't... You're not going to-' 'Claim your life?' Thantos asked. 'Well, let's see...'  He pulled a pure-black iPad from thin air. Death, tapped the screen a few times, and all Frank could think was: Please don't let there be an app for reaping souls.  'I don't see you on the list,' Thantos said. 'Pluto gives me specific orders for escaped souls, you see. For some reason, he has not issued a warrant for yours. Perhaps he feels your life is not finished, or it could be n oversight. If you'd like me to call and ask-' 'No!' Hazel yelped. 'That's okay.' 'Are you sure?' Death asked helpfully. 'I have video-conferencing enabled. I have his Skype address here somewhere...","author":"Rick Riordan","tags":["death","frank","hazel","jackson","percy","rick","riordan","thantos"],"id":4819,"author_id":"Rick+Riordan"},{"text":"To ‘pretend’ is to say that I’m willing to waste the precious energy that it takes to pretend, and I’m unwilling to cultivate the bravery that it takes to be real. And I am at a complete loss to pretend that either of these aren’t true.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["authentic","authenticity","avoid","avoidance","brave","bravery","denial","fake","false","fear","forthright","frank","honest","honesty","pretend","real","truth","truthful"],"id":15465,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"I would like to say that I’m sacrificial. But am I sacrificial enough to acknowledge the fact that I’m not?","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["denial","forthright","frank","god","honesty","ignorance","ignore","jesus","jesus-christ","sacrifice","sacrificial"],"id":37231,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love.","author":"Frank O'Hara","tags":["frank","love","men","o-hara"],"id":48900,"author_id":"Frank+O%27Hara"},{"text":"Look, Miranda, he said, those twenty long years that lie between you and me. I've more knowledge of life than you, I've lived more and betrayed more and seen more betrayed. At your age one is bursting with ideals. You think that because I can sometimes see what's trivial and what's important in art that I ought to be more virtuous. But I don't want to be virtuous. My charm (if there is any) for you is simply frankness. And experience. Not goodness. I'm not a good man. Perhaps morally I'm younger even than you are. Can you understand that?","author":"John Fowles","tags":["art","betray","betrayal","betrayed","bursting","charm","experience","frank","frankness","good","goodness","ideal","ideals","important","knowledge","life","old","older","trivial","understand","virtue","virtuous","years","young","younger"],"id":81021,"author_id":"John+Fowles"},{"text":"Only strong women, and they seem to be rare, can handle a frank and direct woman who doesn't sweet-talk or need others to nerve her. You can identify the easily intimidated because they need a gaggle of like-minded clones to back them up when they feign offense, which is merely a guise for their insecurity.","author":"Donna Lynn Hope","tags":["alone","candor","clones","direct","frank","independence","insecurity","strength","strong","women"],"id":86971,"author_id":"Donna+Lynn+Hope"},{"text":"I'm your worst damn nightmare, Skeletor. I'm a vampire killer with fangs and a grudge.","author":"Rachel Caine","tags":["frank","he-man","skeletor","vampire"],"id":121860,"author_id":"Rachel+Caine"},{"text":"The problem is not that we don’t recognize the truth when we hear it. The problem is that we don’t want to recognize what the truth might mean for us if we hear it.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["accountability","accountable","frank","greedy","hear","honest","problem","self-centered","selfish","superificiality","truth"],"id":141580,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Display politeness and frankness always both in action and conversation. Don’t keep engaging in useless arguments. It scares your dreams away. Talk sensibly.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["action","actions","arguments","communication","conversations","display","dreams","food-for-thought","frank","frankness","israelmore-ayivor","polite","politeness","rude","scare","speech","talk","talk-sweel","useless","words","words-and-actions"],"id":148332,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"I'm gonna be percy Jackson when I grow up,' she told Hazel solemnly.Hazel Smiled and ruffled her hair. 'That's a good thing to be, Julia.'Although,' Frank said. 'Frank Zhang would be good too.","author":"Rick Riordan","tags":["comedy","frank","hazel","hero","humor","inspirational","percy"],"id":236692,"author_id":"Rick+Riordan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":22,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}