{"quotes":[{"text":"It was like staring at a whitewashed wall, but without all the emotion.","author":"Joe Abercrombie","tags":["fantasy","grim","humor"],"id":32859,"author_id":"Joe+Abercrombie"},{"text":"Any girl with a grin never looks grim.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["adage","advertisement","alliterations","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri-writer","apparel","beauty","belief","believe","blog","blogging","bold","book-writing","born-with","catch-lines","catchphrases","catwalk","celebrity","characters","clothes","clothes","comedy","confidence","cool","cosmetics","costume","creative-writing","dress","dressing","dressing-sense","dude","energy","essay","face","face-cream","fashion","fashion-designer","fashion-industry","fashion","fashion-statement","fashions","fearless","garments","girl","gloomy","god-given","grim","grin","inheritance","inspirational","jeans","kitty-party","knowledge","make-fun-of","make-up","makeover","modeling","motivational","movie","movie-dialogue","novel-writing","old-fashioned","outfit","outfits","page-3","philosophy","proverbs","public-speaking","punchline","quotes","ramp","rhetoric","script","script-writing","scriptwriting","self-confidence","slogans","smile","smiling-face","social-networking","speech","speechwriting","story","tag-lines","trend","trending","trust-yourself","ugly","unattractive","wisdom","writing"],"id":74508,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"Sometimes strange fiction, becomes grim reality.","author":"Wayne Gerard Trotman","tags":["ashes-to-ashes","fiction","grim","real","reality","strange"],"id":132781,"author_id":"Wayne+Gerard+Trotman"},{"text":"Faith is, believing there is still a star out there to wish on, just for you, tucked away behind dark clouds.","author":"Anthony Liccione","tags":["believing","confidence","darkness","faith","for-you","grim","hope","optimist","star","trust","wish"],"id":133920,"author_id":"Anthony+Liccione"},{"text":"When shrouded meanings and grim intentions are nicely polished up and pokerfaced personae are generously palming off their fantasy constructs, caution is the watchword, since rimpling water on the well of truth swiftly obscures our vision and perception. ('Trompe le pied.').","author":"Erik Pevernagie","tags":["caution","construcs","fantasy","generously","grim","intentions","meanings","nicely","obscure","palm-off","perception","personae","pokerface","polished","rimpling-water","shrouded","swiftly","truth","vision","watchword","well"],"id":141894,"author_id":"Erik+Pevernagie"},{"text":"So many people overlook the small things. The way someone's laugh makes y ou smile. The way their eyes can captivate you. How the way they speak can enlighten you, encourage you, inspire you. A touch of their hand to yours. A quick kiss on the cheek. An 'I love you.","author":"Jennifer Reinfried","tags":["grim","life-lessons","love"],"id":206538,"author_id":"Jennifer+Reinfried"},{"text":"Many grim tales stem from your green lands, and still deeds both noble and evil shall yet unfold there.","author":"Robin Jarvis","tags":["deeds","evil","grim","noble","tales"],"id":226912,"author_id":"Robin+Jarvis"},{"text":"You don’t need a plan. You have the Puck with you, remember? I’m an expert at this. And I’ve never needed an elaborate plan to pull anything off.”...“Worry not, human,” the cat sighed, giving himself a thorough shake. “I am going with you as well. With Goodfellow’s exemplary planning, someone has to make sure you go through the right door.","author":"Julie Kagawa","tags":["fun","grim","irony","puck"],"id":238682,"author_id":"Julie+Kagawa"},{"text":"From the very second that two people sat together around a fire in the forest, there was another human out there who felt better in the dark.","author":"Andrew Vachss","tags":["darkness","grim"],"id":244389,"author_id":"Andrew+Vachss"},{"text":"Alford, Massachusetts: Mandy stood there with her old Nikon film camera, snapping photo after photo of the rural landscape. It was difficult to describe the wonderful feeling of there not being a single cell phone in sight; the only modern technology around was the faint blue glow of a cathode ray tube television in the window of a nearby house, and a few cars and trucks parked in crumbling gravel driveways. She was allowed to see this place, one that would likely be ruined by the 21st century as time went on… places like these were extremely hard to find these days. A world of wood-burning cookstoves and the waxy smell of Paraffin, laundry hung out to dry, rusty steel bridges over streams that reflected the bright blue skies, apple pies left out on windowsills… a world of hard work with very little to show for it aside from the sunlight beaming down on a proud community. And Mandy wanted to trap it all in her Kodak film rolls and rescue it from the future.","author":"Rebecca McNutt","tags":["barnyard","cell-phone","cook-stove","country","digital","earth","farm","film","future","glow","grim","kodachrome","kodak","laundry","love","massachusetts","missing","nikon","nostalgic","past","peace","photography","pie","small-town","television","texting","traditional"],"id":253000,"author_id":"Rebecca+McNutt"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":17,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}