{"quotes":[{"text":"I remember the stink of corruption. It had a kind of sweetness to it, a sweetness that'd make you want to hurl.","author":"Mark Lawrence","tags":["gross","sad","sad"],"id":48968,"author_id":"Mark+Lawrence"},{"text":"A man who has been dead for a week in a hot trailer looks more like a man than you would first expect.","author":"Lynda Barry","tags":["gross","murder"],"id":64115,"author_id":"Lynda+Barry"},{"text":"Revel in grossness. Leave food in your teeth. Proudly display feminine hygiene products.","author":"Jennifer Ziegler","tags":["feminine-hygiene-products","food","funny","gross"],"id":89194,"author_id":"Jennifer+Ziegler"},{"text":"Big food companies make hot dogs with mechanically separated meat (msm) that, as described matter-of-factly by the [USDA], is 'a paste-like and batter-like meat product produced by forcing bones with attached edible meat under high pressure through a sieve or similar device to separate the bone from the edible meat tissue.'. I read that and wanted to unread it.","author":"Jennifer Reese","tags":["food","food-industry","gross","hotdogs","usda"],"id":94115,"author_id":"Jennifer+Reese"},{"text":"She shuddered. “What is it with slobbery kissers? Are they trying to drown us in spit? I mean, Jesus, swallow every now and then.","author":"Tammara Webber","tags":["funny-but-true","gross","kissing","laugh-out-loud"],"id":129265,"author_id":"Tammara+Webber"},{"text":"Bombs Away!' he yelled, swooping low over StregaSchloss. He saw little figures on the ground fleeing from the large green projectile that was speeding their way. 'And a direct hit, if I'm not mistaken,' he observed to himself. With a tremendous slapping sound, Ffup's digestive overload landed on a human target. There was a scream, a ghastly choking sound, and then silence.","author":"Debi Gliori","tags":["funny","gross","hilarious","humor"],"id":138122,"author_id":"Debi+Gliori"},{"text":"Cruel people are not only people who kill innocent people with guns. Individuals who steal from government coffers to enrich themselves at the expense of the poor are grossly cruel.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["cruel","cruelty","destroy","food-for-thought","government","gross","grossly","gun","individuals","innocence","innocent","israelmore-ayivor","kill","leaders","leadership","lynch","martin-luther","martin-luther-king","martin-luther-king-jr","politicians","politics","thief","thieves"],"id":144330,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one’s mind. Even ten square miles of wheat gladdens the hearts of most . . . No, in the plant world, and especially among the flowering plants, fecundity is not an assault on human values. Plants are not our competitors; they are our prey and our nesting materials. We are no more distressed at their proliferation than an owl is at a population explosion among field mice . . . But in the animal world things are different, and human feelings are different . . . Fecundity is anathema only in the animal. 'Acres and acres of rats' has a suitably chilling ring to it that is decidedly lacking if I say, instead, 'acres and acres of tulips'.","author":"Annie Dillard","tags":["green","gross","human","life","nature","page-164","perspective","plants"],"id":145560,"author_id":"Annie+Dillard"},{"text":"The extent of God’s grace always eclipses the extent of my grotesqueness. Therefore, I can never be bad enough for God to tell me that He’s had enough.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["awful","bad","christian","christianity","eclipse","eclipses","enough","exhausted","god","grace","gross","grotesque","patience","redemption"],"id":146250,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"That's brain tissue. How can you-?' Claire shut her mouth, fast. 'Never mind. I don't think I wanna know.'Truly, I think that's best. Please take it.' He showed his teeth briefly in a very unsettling grin. 'I'm giving you a piece of my mind.'I so wish you hadn't said that.","author":"Rachel Caine","tags":["gross","humor","vampires"],"id":151431,"author_id":"Rachel+Caine"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":24,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}