{"quotes":[{"text":"My body felt alive.\tI need more.\t'Valkyrie,' Fen growled, eyes locked on my mouth. 'Put your lips back on mine, and I will give you what you crave.","author":"Amanda Carlson","tags":["demigods","demons","fantasy","giants","god-of-war","greek-mythology","loki","odin","paranormal","romance","snakes","urban-fantasy"],"id":3465,"author_id":"Amanda+Carlson"},{"text":"At the bar on the Favoritenstrasse, Julius the policeman talked to us about dignity, evolution, the great Darwin and the great Nietzsche. I translated so that my good friend Ulises could understand what he was saying, although I didn’t understand any of it. The prayer of the bones, said Julius. The yearning for health. The virtue of danger. The tenacity of the forgotten. Bravo, said my good friend Ulises. Bravo, said everyone else. The limits of memory. The wisdom of plants. The eye of parasites. The agility of the earth. The merit of the soldier. The cunning of the giant. The hole of the will. Magnificent, said my good friend Ulises in German. Extraordinary.","author":"Roberto Bolaño","tags":["desert","giants","memory","nietzsche","prayer","stoicism"],"id":49281,"author_id":"Roberto+Bola%C3%B1o"},{"text":"If you add your hot passion to the cold attitude of another person, it becomes lukewarm. Don’t stand on the toes of dwarfs; stand on the shoulders of giants!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["attitude","cold","dwarfs","food-for-thought","giants","hot","israelmore-ayivor","lukewarm","negative-people","passion","polite","shoulders-of-giants","stand","toes"],"id":86170,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"I fear nothing when I am doing right,' said Jack.'Then,' said the lady in the red cap, 'you are one of those who slay giants.","author":"Andrew Lang","tags":["fairy-tales","fear","giants","inspirational","jack","right"],"id":106857,"author_id":"Andrew+Lang"},{"text":"They want to cook you and eat you,' she said distatefully, 'which is ridiculous. You'd taste terrible.'Thank you, grandmother.","author":"Rick Riordan","tags":["frank-zhang","giants","percy-jackson"],"id":108722,"author_id":"Rick+Riordan"},{"text":"The challenge is never based on the size of the obstacle that stands before me. Rather, it is dictated by the degree of faith that rests within me.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["accomplishment","barriers","challenge","challenges","confidence","confident","defeat","difficulties","faith","faithless","fearful","giants","god","insecure","insecurity","me","myself","obstacles","setbacks","struggles","trials","victories","victory"],"id":111974,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"The cern paled, and all the courageous which accompanied him into the conversation was now all done away. He shrunk back, his audacity dwizzening under the teneberous gloom of the giant’s long shadow. He turned to entreat the help of his fellow soldiers with desperate looks, but there was little more than half of the regiments left behind him, all of them unwilling to intervene, and his bowels rumbled, his heart sinking into the grave of conscience, and never had he felt more mistaken in his conduct.","author":"Michelle Franklin","tags":["giants","regret","repentence","shadow"],"id":116379,"author_id":"Michelle+Franklin"},{"text":"Nature intends all men and women to be mental and spiritual giants, and does not intend that any one should follow the will of another.","author":"Christian D. Larson","tags":["giants","intends","mental","nature","spiritual","will"],"id":140991,"author_id":"Christian+D.+Larson"},{"text":"Never leave your life plan to be determined by people who are not going where you are going. For the sake of your dreams and also for the sake of the people God created to benefit from your God-give talents, stay away from toxic people. Mount the shoulder giants and see farther ahead!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["achievers","companions","creator","dangerous","determine","dreams","farther","food-for-thought","friends","friendship","giants","god","israelmore-ayivor","life","life-plan","people","plan","plan-your-life","relationship","shoulder","toxic-people"],"id":159617,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Oceans recede and coastlines wither and crack. Nations lapse; others soon swagger in their places. Mountains crumble to dust, rains vanish into the sea, winds return whence they came, and every city men build has but a jumble of bones for its foundation. What is your need to me? I am the Watcher in the Dark.","author":"J. Aleksandr Wootton","tags":["entropy","futility","giants","human-endeavor","perspective","time"],"id":172576,"author_id":"J.+Aleksandr+Wootton"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":32,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}