{"quotes":[{"text":"Dear Future Daughter:1) When you’re at some party, chain smoking on the roof with some strange girl with blue hair and exorbitant large dark eyes, ask her about her day. I promise you, you won’t regret it. Often times you’ll find the strangest of people have the most captivating of stories to tell.2) Please, never mistake desire for love. Love will engulf your soul, whilst desire will emerge as acid, slowly making it’s way through your veins, gradually burning you from the inside out.3) No one is going to fucking save you, anything you’ve read or heard otherwise is bullshit.4) One day a boy is going to come along who’s touch feels like fire and who’s words taste like vanilla, when he leaves you, you will want to die. If you know anything at all, know that it is only temporary.5) Your mental health comes before school baby, always. If its midnight, and you have an exam the next day but your hands have been shaking for the past hour and a half and you’re not so sure you want to be alive anymore, pull out that carton of Ben and Jerry’s and afterwards, go the fuck to bed. So what if you get a 68% on the exam the next day? You took care of yourself and at the end of the day that will always come before a high test score. To hell with anyone who tells you differently.","author":"Abbie Nielsen","tags":["advice","daughter","inspiration","letter"],"id":1053,"author_id":"Abbie+Nielsen"},{"text":"I'm not always the best at expressing myself to you, so I'm taking advantage of the fact that I will be completely unresponsive when you read this, and therefore incapable of messing things up.","author":"Amy Plum","tags":["confession","letter","romantic"],"id":2754,"author_id":"Amy+Plum"},{"text":"Darling,You asked me to write you a letter, so I am writing you a letter. I do not know why I am writing you this letter, or what this letter is supposed to be about, but I am writing it nonetheless, because I love you very much and trust that you have some good purpose for having me write this letter. I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.Your father.","author":"Jonathan Safran Foer","tags":["father","letter","understand"],"id":7646,"author_id":"Jonathan+Safran+Foer"},{"text":"The letter we all love to receive is one that carries so much of the writer’s personality that she seems to be sitting beside us, looking at us directly and talking just as she really would, could she have come on a magic carpet, instead of sending her proxy in ink-made characters on mere paper.","author":"Emily Post","tags":["ink","letter","magic-carpet","paper","personality"],"id":14796,"author_id":"Emily+Post"},{"text":"You were the missing piece of my soul, the breath in my lungs, and the blood in my veins.","author":"J.A. Redmerski","tags":["andrew-parrish","letter","love"],"id":18269,"author_id":"J.A.+Redmerski"},{"text":"You frequently state, and in your letter you imply, that I have developed a completely one-sided outlook and look at everything in terms of science. Obviously my method of thought and reasoning is influenced by a scientific training – if that were not so my scientific training will have been a waste and a failure. But you look at science (or at least talk of it) as some sort of demoralizing invention of man, something apart from real life, and which must be cautiously guarded and kept separate from everyday existence. But science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated. Science, for me, gives a partial explanation of life. In so far as it goes, it is based on fact, experience and experiment. Your theories are those which you and many other people find easiest and pleasantest to believe, but so far as I can see, they have no foundation other than they leaf to a pleasanter view of life (and an exaggerated idea of our own importance)...I agree that faith is essential to success in life (success of any sort) but I do not accept your definition of faith, I.E. Belief in life after death. In my view, all that is necessary for faith is the belief that by doing our best we shall come nearer to success and that success in our aims (the improvement of the lot of mankind, present and future) is worth attaining. Anyone able to believe in all that religion implies obviously must have such faith, but I maintain that faith in this world is perfectly possible without faith in another world…It has just occurred to me that you may raise the question of the creator. A creator of what? ... I see no reason to believe that a creator of protoplasm or primeval matter, if such there be, has any reason to be interested in our significant race in a tiny corner of the universe, and still less in us, as still more significant individuals. Again, I see no reason why the belief that we are insignificant or fortuitous should lessen our faith – as I have defined it.","author":"Rosalind Franklin","tags":["1940","atheism","creator","fact","female","historical","historical-non-fiction","history","letter","science","science-vs-religion"],"id":19278,"author_id":"Rosalind+Franklin"},{"text":"Dear Cake,You're AWESOME. That is all.","author":"Sonya Watson","tags":["cake","for-the-love-of-cake","letter","true-love"],"id":29371,"author_id":"Sonya+Watson"},{"text":"I suppose I'll say it all started with a love letter.","author":"Jenny Han","tags":["beginning","cute","end","letter","life","love","relationship","romance"],"id":30413,"author_id":"Jenny+Han"},{"text":"So never give in,” continued the girl, and restated again and again the vague yet convincing plea that the Invisible lodges against the Visible. Her excitement grew as she tried to cut the rope that fastened Leonard to the earth. Woven of bitter experience, it resisted her. Presently the waitress entered and gave her a letter from Margaret. Another note, addressed to Leonard, was inside. They read them, listening to the murmurings of the river.","author":"E.M. Forster","tags":["conflict","letter","resistance","river","water"],"id":30522,"author_id":"E.M.+Forster"},{"text":"Oh, how scary and wonderful it is that words can change our lives simply by being next to each other.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["alphabet","book","epic","fiction","inspiration","inspirational","journal","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","letter","life","live","lives","love-of-reading","love-of-writing","novel","novels","quote","on-reading","on-writing","read","reader","reading","scary","stories","story","storytelling","transformation","wonderful","words","write","writer","writing"],"id":30621,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":102,"pages":11,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}