{"quotes":[{"text":"I loved Emma.' The words, so flat and final, explode into the air. 'But she lied to me. I thought perhaps I could have the love without the lies. With you, I mean. Do you remember your application letter? How you talked about integrity and honesty and trust? That was what made me think it might work, that it might be better this time. But I've never loved you the way I loved her.","author":"J.P. Delaney","tags":["breakup","comparison","confession","declaration-of-love","hurtful","j-p-delaney","the-girl-before"],"id":16309,"author_id":"J.P.+Delaney"},{"text":"I watched love and life play out in a million ways, but one of the best things I learned was this: You don't outrun pain.","author":"Jewel","tags":["hurt","hurtful","life","life-lessons","outrun","pain","painful","run","running"],"id":37792,"author_id":"Jewel"},{"text":"People should get their information from the source with facts before sharing it. Rumors can be lots of different opinions, based on what other people think. This is where lies begin to build and develop into things that are harmful to others.","author":"Ellen J. Barrier","tags":["facts","harmful","hurtful","information","lies","opinions","rumors"],"id":37814,"author_id":"Ellen+J.+Barrier"},{"text":"I feel strongly that Christians have a scriptural mandate to love and care for all the people of the world. Even those who are living in immoral circumstances are entitled to be treated with dignity and respect. There is no place for hatred, hurtful jokes, or other forms of rejecting towards those who are gay.","author":"James C. Dobson","tags":["all","and","are","be","care","christians","circumstances","dignity","entitled","even","for","forms","gay","hatred","hurtful","immoral","in","is","jokes","living","love","mandate","no","of","other","people","place","rejecting","respect","scriptural","the","there","those","to","towards","treated","who","with","world"],"id":44862,"author_id":"James+C.+Dobson"},{"text":"The old Amy, the girl of the big laugh and the easy ways, literally shed herself, a pile of skin and soul on the floor, and stepped this new, brittle, bitter Amy ... A razor-wire knot daring me to unloop her, and I was not up to the job with my thick, numb, nervous fingers. Country fingers. Flyover fingers untrained in the intricate, dangerous work of 'solving Amy'. When I'd hold up the bloody stumps, she'd sigh and turn to her secret mental notebooks on which she tallied all my deficiencies, forever noting disappointments, frailties, shortcomings.","author":"Gillian Flynn","tags":["broken-heart","bullying","change","change-for-worse","criticism","emotional-turmoil","failure","flaws","hatred","heartbreak","heartless","hurtful","i-miss-who-you-were","loss","love","marriage","missing-who-someone-was","nothing","puppeteer","relationships","scary","strangers","turmoil"],"id":49385,"author_id":"Gillian+Flynn"},{"text":"Incessant smiling is one of the deadly tools used by someone whose intent is to make others cry.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["cry","crying","design","fake-friends","fake-people","harm","hurt","hurtful","incessant","intention","malicious-intent","pretence","scheme","smiling","target","too-much","tool","trick"],"id":77004,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"He tried to measure his day by tallying the hours on his wrist.I wiped it off and called him a prisoner.He placed the hours on a scalewith hours from former days to compare.I took a hammer and broke it all.He bent down and picked up the shards of minutes firstthen swept the seconds.I told him he’d missed a spot;there were some sparkling specks left.'What are they?' he asked.'Those are moments,' I said.'What are they made of?' he asked.They are times, I thought, when you win a raceor win a heart.They are times when you give birth or lay something, someone to rest.When you wake up in the morning with a smile because anything is possible.When someone compliments the thing you hate most about yourself.Times when you are embarrassed.Times when you are hurtful.Times when you relish in a hearty meal.Times when you service others and are content with a well-spent day.'What are they made of?' he asked again.'They are made up of times when we are fully present.'I picked up one of the specks with the tipof my finger.'Do you remember this?' I asked.'Of course,' he said, 'I was whistling in the kitchen that morning.''Why?' I asked.'Because of the knowledge that I was loved.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["birth","broke","compare","compliment","content","cute","day","embarrass","former","hammer","heart","hours","hurtful","inspiration","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","lesson","love","love-poem","loving","meal","measure","minutes","moments","morning","place","possible","present","prisoner","prose","quote","race","scale","seconds","service","speck","spot","tally","times","whistle","win","wipe","wisdom","wrist"],"id":81048,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.","author":"Lucius Annaeus Seneca","tags":["hurtful","us","than "],"id":103375,"author_id":"Lucius+Annaeus+Seneca"},{"text":"What if you are just destined to get hurt, to be helplessly stuck in a point of time you no longer want to be? Maybe life is all about trying to get up while you fall a little bit deeper in the pits of hell, each time you try not to...","author":"Sanhita Baruah","tags":["alone","break-ups","broken-dreams","broken-heart","cry","dark","deep","depression","destiny","fiction","grief","hell","helpless","hurt","hurtful","inferno","let-go","life","loneliness","lonely","love","melancholy","move-on","pain","painful","people","pits","red","relationships","sad","sadness","solitude","stuck","tears","time","trap","trapped"],"id":123523,"author_id":"Sanhita+Baruah"},{"text":"When a man plays with your heart it is for one of two reasons: He knows he can or he is undecided.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["advice","attitude","boredom","communication","disrespectful","hurtful","lack-of-contentment","obsessed","players","relationships","relationships-101","stimulus-seeking","stringing-people-along","thoughtless"],"id":175418,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":23,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}