{"quotes":[{"text":"I felt held hostage by her illness and by the backward mental health system that once again was incapable of helping our family in crisis.","author":"Mira Bartok","tags":["crisis","hostage","mental-health"],"id":76139,"author_id":"Mira+Bartok"},{"text":"That day wasn't the first time I had attempted suicide. Simply disappearing into the distant nothingness where there was no pain and no more feelings - back then I thought it an act of empowerment. Otherwise I had very little power to make any decisions about my life, my body, my actions. Taking my own life seemed my last trump card.","author":"Natascha Kampusch","tags":["depression","despair","hostage","kidnapped","kidnapping","powerless","powerlessness","suicidal","suicide","suicide-attempt","trauma","victim"],"id":99689,"author_id":"Natascha+Kampusch"},{"text":"The goal with hostages is to gradually lower expectations; in nonhostage crises, it's to lower emotions.","author":"Dave Cullen","tags":["emotions","hostage","hostage-crisis","hostage-situation"],"id":115188,"author_id":"Dave+Cullen"},{"text":"If nostalgia holds you hostage,the ransom is the present.","author":"Khang Kijarro Nguyen","tags":["hostage","nostalgia","now","present","ransom"],"id":177485,"author_id":"Khang+Kijarro+Nguyen"},{"text":"To me, nudity is a joke. I don't think nude people are very attractive at all. I like my women fully clothed. I like to imagine what might be under there. It might not be the standard thing. Imagine, stripping a woman down, and she has a body like a little submarine. With periscope, propellers, torpedoes. That would be the one for me. I'd marry her right off and be faithful to the end.","author":"Charles Bukowski","tags":["hostage","humor"],"id":214916,"author_id":"Charles+Bukowski"},{"text":"Don't allow yourself to be held hostage by the opinion of others.","author":"Laurie Buchanan","tags":["hostage","opinions-of-others","self-esteem"],"id":266382,"author_id":"Laurie+Buchanan"},{"text":"Olivia sat back and propped her half-boots on the table. 'So far it's working. He has to return to me because I have his sister hostage.' She briefly put her fingertips to her lips. 'Did I just say that? I mean I'm protecting the baby sister and earning his trust.","author":"Kresley Cole","tags":["hostage","humor","love","unrequited-love"],"id":282308,"author_id":"Kresley+Cole"},{"text":"Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a hostage, sapping your courage and corrupting your judgment.","author":"Orson Scott Card","tags":["breaking-dawn","courage","enemies","hostage","luxury"],"id":405905,"author_id":"Orson+Scott+Card"},{"text":"Just five minutes, God, I chant like some hostage negotiator on the brink of a resolution. Five minutes alone. Please, please. Please.","author":"Shannon Celebi","tags":["alone","alone-time","hostage","hostage-crisis","hostage-situation","lonliness","prayer"],"id":439444,"author_id":"Shannon+Celebi"},{"text":"She put her tongue out and felt the raw edges of the torn silk. She looped her tongue around them and drew them into her teeth. Just a little bit, she thought, that's all I need to free my eyelids. She pulled the tasteless web between her teeth and ground, pulling her jaw down in a grimace - it felt as it she was eating the very skin off her face. But the silk over her eyelids shifted.","author":"Stephen M. Irwin","tags":["blindfold","bound","captive","captured","courage","creepy","escape","freeing-self","hostage","little-girl"],"id":458401,"author_id":"Stephen+M.+Irwin"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":10,"pages":1}}