{"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":"Each of us is a book waiting to be written, and that book, if written, results in a person explained.","author":"Thomas M. Cirignano","tags":["boston","boston-harbor","boston-history","bully","bullying","castle-island","cirignano","discrimination","dorchester","drinking-and-driving","fitting-in","forced-busing","gas-shortage","irish-mob","italian","memoir","murder","nonfiction","osracism","south-boston","southie","true-crime","whitey-bulger"],"id":1557,"author_id":"Thomas+M.+Cirignano"},{"text":"Money has the power to get, all that you want.Money has the power to make you forget, all that you want.","author":"Akash Lakhotia","tags":["lifequotes","literature","meaningful","money","nonfiction","philosophical","power","priorities","priority","prose","quotes","thoughtful","thoughts","worldhypnotized"],"id":2026,"author_id":"Akash+Lakhotia"},{"text":"The smell of cigarette smoke in the air in a tavern that changes names often,a bar cursed because of a girl who died of a drug overdose in the basement, we put a few coins in the jukebox;chose “Angel Band” by Johnny Cash and sat down at the bar,ordered a soda, you wanted a whiskey on the rocks.We saw the coal miner who moved here from West Virginiaknocking back liquor like I drink sweet tea.No one asked why he was so solemn today.It was warm. It was relatively quiet.To anyone else, this place could feel sinister.But to us, it was freedom. It was a hiding place.No one was ever here long enough to know us.And we liked it that way.","author":"Taylor Rhodes","tags":["adult-nonfiction","diary","freedom","journal","love","lust","memoir","nonfiction","running-away","self-discovery","self-exploration","sixteenth-notes","taylor-rhodes","young-adult","youth-nonfiction"],"id":6206,"author_id":"Taylor+Rhodes"},{"text":"You have heroes? No? What kind of feeling exist in you?","author":"Da Anunciação Marco","tags":["heroes","inspirational","nonfiction","psichology"],"id":8255,"author_id":"Da+Anuncia%C3%A7%C3%A3o+Marco"},{"text":"Bad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action.'(p.115).","author":"Malcolm Gladwell","tags":["comedy","humor","improvisation","inspirational","motivational","nonfiction","science"],"id":9357,"author_id":"Malcolm+Gladwell"},{"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":"The biggest regrets people have aren’t about what they did, but what they didn’t do.","author":"Beverly K. Bachel","tags":["inspirational","nonfiction","nonfiction-self-help","parenting","parenting-teens","teens","young-adult"],"id":14915,"author_id":"Beverly+K.+Bachel"},{"text":"You know, everybody's ignorant, just on different subjects.","author":"Will Rogers","tags":["autism","memoir","nonfiction","writing"],"id":18851,"author_id":"Will+Rogers"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":210,"pages":21,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}