{"quotes":[{"text":"Wisdom of the Ages: 'New Year's Eve' The last day you can do all the things you are resolving to give up-until you give up on your New Year's resolutions.","author":"Matthew Heines","tags":["humorous","new-year-s-eve"],"id":1463,"author_id":"Matthew+Heines"},{"text":"MOTHER TIME: Life goes by so very fast, my dears, and taking the time to reflect, even once a year, slows things down. We zoom past so many seconds, minutes, hours, killing them with the frantic way we live that it's important we take at least this one collective sigh and stop, take stock, and acknowledge our place in time before diving back into the melee. Midnight on New Year's Eve is a unique kind of magic where, just for a moment, the past and the future exist at once in the present. Whether we're aware of it or not, as we countdown together to it, we're sharing the burden of our history and committing to the promise of tomorrow.","author":"Hillary DePiano","tags":["being-busy","busy","goals","holiday","life","magic","midnight","new-year","new-year-s","new-year-s-eve","new-year-s-resolutions","new-years","new-years-eve","resolutions","slowing-down","taking-stock","the-past","the-present","time","tomorrow","tradition","traditions","yesterday"],"id":21103,"author_id":"Hillary+DePiano"},{"text":"Kissing a stranger because that is what is done presages an unhappy year not for any supernatural reason, but because you are unsatisfied enough with your lot in life to put your lips on the line for a fallacy.","author":"Thomm Quackenbush","tags":["dissatisfaction","kiss","kissing","new-year-s-eve"],"id":23844,"author_id":"Thomm+Quackenbush"},{"text":"MURRY: It's not that, it's just… I don't really get it. I usually find myself staring at the midnight deadline filled with regrets both for opportunities and loved ones missed. It's another day closer to the end. The last thing I feel like doing is counting down to some wild celebration. It just seems so sad to say goodbye to a year and know that it’s gone forever and you can’t go back to it. Not to relive, not to correct.NOEL: I've never thought about it that way.MURRY: There's something so final about it. It's the period at the end of the sentence.NOEL: The New Year's resolution.","author":"Hillary DePiano","tags":["goals","holiday","new-year","new-year-s","new-year-s-eve","new-year-s-resolutions","new-years","new-years-eve","resolutions","tradition","traditions"],"id":37947,"author_id":"Hillary+DePiano"},{"text":"MURRY: Why do we even celebrate the New Year? It's just this arbitrary quirk of how we measure time in years, right? Midnight tonight is the very same transition from day to day that we do every 24 hours. But this thing in my hands, it feels real in a way the numbered calendar box never does. Why? What makes midnight tonight any different?","author":"Hillary DePiano","tags":["goals","holiday","midnight","new-year","new-year-s","new-year-s-eve","new-year-s-resolutions","new-years","new-years-eve","resolutions","tradition","traditions"],"id":53574,"author_id":"Hillary+DePiano"},{"text":"NOEL: You can get excited about the future. The past won't mind.","author":"Hillary DePiano","tags":["future","holiday","new-year","new-year-s","new-year-s-eve","new-year-s-resolutions","new-years","new-years-eve","past","regrets"],"id":102043,"author_id":"Hillary+DePiano"},{"text":"The fireworks went on for nearly half an hour, great pulsing strobes, fiery dandelions and starbursts of light brightening both sky and water. It was hard to tell which was reality and which was reflection, as if there were two displays, above and below, going on simultaneously—one in space-time, mused Max, and the other in time-space.","author":"Sol Luckman","tags":["celebration","dewey-larson","fireworks","florida","lights","mirror","mirroring","new-year-s-eve","ocean","parallel-realities","parallel-universe","physics","reciprocal-system","sciencce-fiction","space-time","time-space"],"id":128963,"author_id":"Sol+Luckman"},{"text":"Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.","author":"Bill Vaughn","tags":["humor","middle-age","new-year-s-eve","youth"],"id":143810,"author_id":"Bill+Vaughn"},{"text":"My New Year's Eve is always 2 July, the night before my birthday. That's the night I make my resolutions. And this year scares the life out of me, because no matter how successful, how good things appear, there is always a deep core of failure within me, although I am trying to deal with it. My biggest fear, this coming year, is that I will be waking up alone.It makes me wonder how many bodies will be fished out of the Thames, how many decaying corpses will be found in one-room flats. I'm just being realistic.","author":"Tracey Emin","tags":["anniversary","birthday","death","depression","failure","fear","new-year-s-eve","river","success","suicide","thames"],"id":172181,"author_id":"Tracey+Emin"},{"text":"MOTHER TIME: We all get the exact same 365 days. The only difference is what we do with them.","author":"Hillary DePiano","tags":["goals","holiday","inspirational","new-year","new-year-s","new-year-s-eve","new-year-s-resolutions","new-years","new-years-eve","resolutions","tradition","traditions","year"],"id":200410,"author_id":"Hillary+DePiano"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":15,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}