{"quotes":[{"text":"Science has made many advances in my lifetime, but the instrument has yet to be invented that can see clearly into the marriage of a man and a woman.","author":"Guillermo del Toro","tags":["experience","introspective","life","life-experience","life-experiences","marriage","musing","musings","science","statement-of-fact"],"id":335,"author_id":"Guillermo+del+Toro"},{"text":"Wind is on fire' - beautiful words. What causes the fire, what enhances it, and what finally extinguishes it by itself or by bringing in rainclouds, gets identified with it. Do breath and life have the same relationship with each other!","author":"R. N. Prasher","tags":["contemplation","fire","identity","musings","questioning","wind"],"id":782,"author_id":"R.+N.+Prasher"},{"text":"For the entire history of humanity, we have stared into fires, hypnotized by the twitch and flow of the blues and yellows. We see the stars of alien skies reflected in the coals and divine messages in the dance of the flames. Fire is magic.","author":"Lance Conrad","tags":["fire","hope","magic","musings","revelation","wisdom"],"id":26061,"author_id":"Lance+Conrad"},{"text":"Never on painter's canvas livesThe charm of his fancy's dream.","author":"L.M. Montgomery","tags":["musings","poem"],"id":32033,"author_id":"L.M.+Montgomery"},{"text":"Great ideas emerges from useless fragments of thoughts.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["contemplation","fragments","great","great-man","idea","inspirational","little-things","michael-bassey-johnson","muse","musing","musings","reflection","retrospection","talent","thinking","thoughts","useless","wisdom"],"id":82480,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"Strange, how in all those apocalyptic movies, when their society breaks down into lawlessness and anarchy, Canada is always the haven of safety, the place people want to escape to.","author":"Jenifer Mohammed","tags":["canada","canadian","human-nature","humor","musings"],"id":91547,"author_id":"Jenifer+Mohammed"},{"text":"I only wrote prose before I met you. My musings were superfluous and serious as well. But now the words dance with me. I sing with them and we create poetry.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["books","create","creative","creative-writing","dance","in-love","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","letters","literature","love","love-poems","love","lover","loving","met","muse","musings","novelist","novels","poems","poet","poetry","poetry","prose","serious","sing","solemn","somber","superfluous","verse","words","write","writer","writing","writing-poems","writing","wrote"],"id":99295,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"Are the Trials starting?” The girl claps her hands over her mouth. “I'm sorry,” she whispers. “I—”“It's all right.” I don't smile at her. It will only scare her. For a female slave, a smile from a Mask is not usually a good thing. “I'm actually wondering the same thing. What's your name?”“S-slave-Girl.” Of course. My mother would already have scourged her name out of existence.“Right. You work for the Commandant?” I want her to say no. I want her to say that my mother roped her into this. I want her to say she's assigned to the kitchens or infirmary, where slaves aren't scarred or missing body p.","author":"Sabaa Tahir","tags":["defiance","elias-veturius","equal","fight","freedom","laia","musings"],"id":106419,"author_id":"Sabaa+Tahir"},{"text":"I do not have a problem with people killing themselves, as long as they took at least a hundred years to think about what they are about to do.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","consider","consideration","contemplate","depress","depressed","depression","dispirit","dispirited","funny","hilarious","humor","humorous","humour","joke","jokes","murder","murders","muse","musing","musings","regret","regrets","satire","self-murder","suicidal","suicide","suicides","think-deep"],"id":161369,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"As the sun sets, something in me rises! Do you think it could be my soul? I feel it's a big probability!","author":"Jasleen Kaur Gumber","tags":["deep","intelligent","life","life-lessons","musings","philosophy","probability","soul","sunlight","sunset","thinking","thought"],"id":172406,"author_id":"Jasleen+Kaur+Gumber"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":22,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}