{"quotes":[{"text":"You battled monsters. You sweat and cried your way to this one prolific moment where you finally realize that those dark days and sleepless nights were pre-requisites to your becoming.","author":"Jennifer Elisabeth","tags":["advice","battle","big-sister","book","born-ready","cry","fiction","girl-power","girls","growing-up","guidance","inspiration","life","lit","literature","little-monster","love","mentor","monster","nonfiction","novel","personal-purpose","self-esteem","self-help","sweat","tears","teens","xjennifer-elisabeth","young-adult"],"id":1539,"author_id":"Jennifer+Elisabeth"},{"text":"Although many things may still need to happen before you identify what your exact work will be, I know that every single person whom you’re meeting and every experience that you’re having is necessary to you discovering your purpose. They are points on a map leading you to the moment where a match will finally be lit and you will be able to see through the darkness.","author":"Jennifer Elisabeth","tags":["advice","big-sister","book","born-ready","fiction","girl-power","girls","growing-up","guidance","inspiration","jennifer-elisabeth","life","lit","literature","love","mentor","nonfiction","novel","personal-purpose","self-esteem","self-help","teens","young-adult"],"id":11283,"author_id":"Jennifer+Elisabeth"},{"text":"Despite how lonely or broken down you might feel, we need you with us helping to make the world better, kinder and safer, especially for the little girls coming up.","author":"Jennifer Elisabeth","tags":["advice","big-sister","book","born-ready","children","fiction","girl-power","girls","growing-up","guidance","inspiration","jennifer-elisabeth","kids","life","lit","literature","little-girls","loneliness","love","mentor","nonfiction","novel","personal-purpose","self-esteem","self-help","teens","young-adult"],"id":11311,"author_id":"Jennifer+Elisabeth"},{"text":"We can allow ourselves to pass through the darkest valley without losing our light. One candle can lit millions of other candles, which are willing to receive the light.","author":"Raphael Zernoff","tags":["candle","light","lit","raphael-zernoff","self-awareness","self-empowerment","wisden"],"id":21660,"author_id":"Raphael+Zernoff"},{"text":"I write so I don’t call you.","author":"Jennifer Elisabeth","tags":["books","born-ready","breaking-up","breakup","call","jennifer-elisabeth","lit","literature","love","phone","quote","relationship","relationships","write"],"id":23708,"author_id":"Jennifer+Elisabeth"},{"text":"I am not a Sunday morning inside four wallswith clean bloodand organized drawers.I am the hurricane setting fire to the forestsat night when no one else is aliveor awakehowever you choose to see itand I live in my own flamessometimes burning too bright and too wildto make things lastor handlemyself or anyone elseand so I run.Run run runfar and wideuntil my bones ache and lungs splitand it feels good.Hear that people? It feels goodbecause I am the slave and ruler of my own bodyand I wish to do with it exactly as I please.","author":"Charlotte Eriksson","tags":["ache","alive","alone","awake","blood","body","bright","burn","fire","flames","forest","free","free-will","hurricane","independent","lit","litquote","morning","myself","night","organized","people","poetry","prose","prose-poetry","run","solitude","songwriter","sunday","sunday-morning","the-glass-child","walls","wild"],"id":29181,"author_id":"Charlotte+Eriksson"},{"text":"Teen fiction should be about teenagers - no matter how many arguments there are about what YA lit should be, this seems like the one thing we can all agree on.","author":"Robin Wasserman","tags":["matter","teenagers","lit "],"id":45251,"author_id":"Robin+Wasserman"},{"text":"Remember, nothing happens before it’s supposed to, so trust that, as you are striving for authenticity and personal excellence, the recognition of your life’s purpose is nearing closer.","author":"Jennifer Elisabeth","tags":["advice","big-sister","book","born-ready","fiction","girl-power","girls","growing-up","guidance","inspiration","jennifer-elisabeth","life","life-purpose","lit","literature","love","mentor","nonfiction","novel","personal-purpose","recognition","self-esteem","self-help","teens","young-adult"],"id":48037,"author_id":"Jennifer+Elisabeth"},{"text":"She lit fire to the bridges and forts she built all these years, and she walked into it smiling and tears rolling down her cheeks.","author":"Akshay Vasu","tags":["bridges","cry","destruction","fire","forts","lit","she","smile","strong","tears","walk"],"id":55275,"author_id":"Akshay+Vasu"},{"text":"I am a worried person with a stressed out soul, living a simple life with no capital.","author":"Charlotte Eriksson","tags":["character","growing-up","identity","life","lit","living","minimalism","minimalist","personality","prose","quote","simplicity","songwriter","soul","the-glass-child","wanderer","worried","writer"],"id":70738,"author_id":"Charlotte+Eriksson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":64,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}