{"quotes":[{"text":"If only…the saddest words in the English language.","author":"Kristan Higgins","tags":["if-only","sad"],"id":61341,"author_id":"Kristan+Higgins"},{"text":"If only there was a way to escape this reality, if only there was a way to erase all this formality, if only there was a way to figure out your mentality, if only there was a way to rid all the theatricality,if only...However sadly all we think of is practicality, so we will never reach any finality.","author":"Dalal Gabara","tags":["finality","formality","if-only","inspirational","life","mentality","practicality","quote","theatricality","truth"],"id":63399,"author_id":"Dalal+Gabara"},{"text":"A dream so vibrant,A dream so blissful;I hold it close to my heart.In anxious nights,And days of hope;These years have passed solely.One day the dream to turn true- If only!","author":"Somya Kedia","tags":["anxious","blissful","close","days","dream","heart","hope","if-only","nights","solely","true","vibrant","years"],"id":115884,"author_id":"Somya+Kedia"},{"text":"We are past the end of things now, but I don't want to leave.","author":"Richard Ford","tags":["end","finality","if-only","leaving","past"],"id":141949,"author_id":"Richard+Ford"},{"text":"We could have been the greatest love story ever told.If only you'd stayed in character.","author":"Joseph Gordon-Levitt","tags":["if-only","love","love-story","what-if"],"id":229549,"author_id":"Joseph+Gordon-Levitt"},{"text":"If only I knew... If only baby... If only...","author":"Anya","tags":["if-only","love","sad"],"id":282899,"author_id":"Anya"},{"text":"If only there was a way to escape this reality, if only there was a way to erase all this formality, if only there was a way to figure out your mentality, if only there was a way to rid all the theatricality, if only...However sadly all we think of is practicality, so we will never reach any finality.","author":"Dalal Gebara","tags":["escape","finality","formality","if-only","inspirational","life-and-sayings","practicality","quote","to-live-by","reality","theatricality"],"id":285362,"author_id":"Dalal+Gebara"},{"text":"They should make earplugs for people who are grieving, so we don't have to hear the stupid things people say, but I'd look like a dork in them.' -Corinna.","author":"Carole Geithner","tags":["bereavement","children-s-grief","death-of-a-loved-one","death-of-a-parent","grief","if-only","young-adult-fiction"],"id":292848,"author_id":"Carole+Geithner"},{"text":"Death is number one on the list of things that we wish were possible to leave behind when we escaped barbarism.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","barbaric","barbarism","civilization","civilize","civilized","cryonics","culture","dead","death","deaths","denial-of-death","die","escape","funny","humor","humour","if-only","immortal","immortality","joke","jokes","leave-behind","left-behind","mortality","mummies","mummy","primitive","progress","satire","savage","uncivilized","wish","wishes"],"id":297678,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"There were so many places in my time with Rogerson that I wished I could go back to, hitting the stop button at just one moment to stop everything that came after. I had so many If Onlys, but each place I thought to stop meant missing something that came later. I needed it all, in the end, to make my own story find its finish.","author":"Sarah Dessen","tags":["acceptance","do-over","experiences","go-back","growing","if-only","missing-something","regret","story","turn-back-time","what-if"],"id":342842,"author_id":"Sarah+Dessen"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":14,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}