{"quotes":[{"text":"You are not going to be the girl I’m going to marry are you? You are going to be the girl that got away.","author":"Angela Richardson","tags":["love-lost","regret"],"id":8371,"author_id":"Angela+Richardson"},{"text":"You've left me with a kaleidoscope of broken smiles and shattered dreams.","author":"Karen Quan","tags":["dreams","heartbreak","heartbroken","loss","love-lost","quotes","relationship","sadness","shattered"],"id":21881,"author_id":"Karen+Quan"},{"text":"Like a white knight in a station wagon, he drove out of her life.","author":"Andrea Hurst","tags":["love","love-lost","romance","soulmates","starcrossed-love","tragic-love","true-love","unrequited"],"id":24444,"author_id":"Andrea+Hurst"},{"text":"...And on my fourth morning in Naples, I woke up alone. There was a note on the table with the breakfast that Cinzia had quietly prepared for me. It read, 'It could never be. But that's why it will always be - perfectly divine. Cinzia' City Solipsism: A Short Story.","author":"Zack Love","tags":["attraction","connections","love-lost","memories","new-york-city","short-story","strangers","subway","zack-love"],"id":42029,"author_id":"Zack+Love"},{"text":"...I will find once again the light of your beauty - your colored windows in the night...","author":"John Geddes","tags":["beauty","light","love","love-lost","poetry"],"id":45566,"author_id":"John+Geddes"},{"text":"The day arrived,when myriad teary rivers flow and the muted wind faintly died in his tears—an altar for the beloved one's departure,for sister-hood is no more,for her to adore!While pangs the beating world in a lamenting voice;their remembering loss of the 'one' they embrace most and when the crepuscule came like a phantom,the mournful,gathered birds swiftly flew in gloom.","author":"Nithin Purple","tags":["adore","altar","beloved","birds","crepuscular","crepuscule","death","embarrassment","embrace","faint","gathering-darkness","gloom","gloominess","gloomy","lament","life","literature","loss","love-lost","mournful","mournfulness","muted","nithin-purple","nithinpurple","pangs","patience","peace","phantom","poems","poems-on-life","poetry","poetry","remembered","sister-love","sisterhood","swift","swiftly","tears","teary","world","worldly","writers"],"id":51416,"author_id":"Nithin+Purple"},{"text":"Years of love, followed by heartache. Those are the years that define me.Those are the years that know– love’s eternity is you.","author":"C. Elizabeth","tags":["eternity","heart-ache","heartache","loss","lost","love-lost","lovers","marriage","years-past"],"id":53091,"author_id":"C.+Elizabeth"},{"text":"I love a man who tickles me awake with reality, and kisses me goodnight with fictionBraids my hair with simplicity to compliment my contradiction And calms the waging wars inside with a simple boyish lookFor he is as much a mystery as he is an open book When I am at my worst, I am beautiful by his sideHe draws me in yet keeps me free, the moon to my tideHe relishes my quirks and antics just as much I love to keep him franticAnd if I ever fall, he doesn’t catch me right awayBecause he knows I’ll glideAnd even more so, knows how much I enjoy the ride…With the strength I lack, he holds my insecurity safe in-between his fingersAnd if there is ever a doubt while I am out running aboutHis steady grip lingersHe drives me crazy just as much as he keeps me saneAnd has the wisdom to keep me wild knowing I’ll die if ever tameSo when I am far, he frets not, because he knows he’s my favorite destination If ever I am down, he joins me on the ground and points out my favorite constellationsHe catches my sighs and lackluster repliesWith ageless humor and tenacity I draw blanks at his capacity And challenge his audacity But He wins because despite my stubbornness he is persistentYet forever fails because he belongs to nonexistent.","author":"Yesenia Barkley","tags":["dreaming","hoping-for-love","imagining","in-a-perfect-world","love","love-dreamed","love-lost","relationships","wishing-for-love"],"id":85708,"author_id":"Yesenia+Barkley"},{"text":"A faerie heart is different from a human heart. Human hearts are elastic. They have room for all sorts of passions, and they can break and heal and love again and again. Faerie hearts are evolutionarily less sophisticated. They are small and hard, like tiny grains of sand. Our hearts are too small to love more than one person in a lifetime...I tried to talk sense into my hard little heart. But it had landed on Peter, a creature two hundred times my size and barely aware of me, and there was no prying it loose.","author":"Jodi Lynn Anderson","tags":["fairies-faeries","fantasy","love-lost","young-adult-romance"],"id":95836,"author_id":"Jodi+Lynn+Anderson"},{"text":"I need to say something. Take it anyway you like,” Ian stated, his eyes boring into hers with a fervor that left her holding her breath.Elaine started to shake her head. “Look, we just met…you don’t need to say…”His deep, cultured voice interrupted her. “Everything you are, Laney, resides in your eyes. I need to see you—all of you. Don’t take that from me while I’m still here. Please.”Tears welled. “You don’t even know me,” she whispered. “How can you say that?”“Because I think I do know you—I just haven’t figured out how.","author":"R. W. Patterson","tags":["hope","hybrid","immortal","love","love-lost","paranormal-romance","soulmates","supernatural","transcendental"],"id":111500,"author_id":"R.+W.+Patterson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":45,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}