{"quotes":[{"text":"There is something strangely ecstatic, oddly fascinating and infinitely magnetic about unrequited love.","author":"Arshpreet Kaur","tags":["excerpt","excerpts","fascinating","fascination","infinite","infinite-love","love","love","magnetic","magnetism","odd","possibilities","quotes","to-live-by","unrequited","unrequited-love"],"id":3368,"author_id":"Arshpreet+Kaur"},{"text":"Isn't it odd that some groups view being legally equal to other groups as 'oppression'?","author":"Christina Engela","tags":["groups","legally-equal","odd","oppression"],"id":6208,"author_id":"Christina+Engela"},{"text":"You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.","author":"Neil Gaiman","tags":["explanations","inexplicable","odd","real-life","reality"],"id":14469,"author_id":"Neil+Gaiman"},{"text":"Quiet people always know more than they seem. Although very normal, their inner world is by default fronted mysterious and therefore assumed weird. Never underestimate the social awareness and sense of reality in a quiet person; they are some of the most observant, absorbent persons of all.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["absorbent","ambivert","assumption","awareness","bias","cool","crazy","culture","discernment","down-to-earth","extrovert","friendly","intelligent","introversion","introvert","judgment","knowledge","learned","loner","misunderstood","mysterious","normal","observation","odd","prejudgment","prudence","psychology","quiet-people","reality","reflection","shy","silence","social","social-awareness","strange","thinking","underestimated","understanding","weird","wisdom"],"id":17374,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Pay to go inside Neruda's homeA body lies there with no dome.But right there in the front hallLean a fairy against the icy wall.Oh Endless enigmas had the bard!Nice and large and calm backyardEnds In the middle of a rare roomRare portrait of revelishing gloom.Up climbing at the weird snail stairDoes make you grasp for some air.And there's a room with bric-a-brac:Old and precious books all in a pack.Dare saying what I liked most of all?Enjoyed seeing visitors having a ball!","author":"Ana Claudia Antunes","tags":["acrosti","ancient","art","art-collection","art-collector","bard","guests","house","la-chascona","love","lyrics","museum","neruda","odd","ode","old","old-piece","pablo-neruda","pablo-neruda-ode","pablo-neruda-poetry-populism","people","poem","poet","poetry","preciosity","precious","precious-things","rare","rarity","rhymed","rhymes","tour","tourism","visit","visiting","visitors","walls","women"],"id":20536,"author_id":"Ana+Claudia+Antunes"},{"text":"There are always messages, even enigmas to be searched, mysteries to be solved in all of my books. I like to puzzle readers, but I do not make so to the point of being so complex that they will lose interest in the plot. And that for me is the essence of every great literature around the world, and that’s been so for ages.(....)Some were inpired by real life characters, some other books I wrote are hybrid fiction/non-fiction, so I pretty much get inspired by people who have lived, and even who are still breathing among us… so don’t get discouraged if I didn’t mention your personality traits yet. I might even have your name over my books, I must some day….","author":"Ana Claudia Antunes","tags":["accounts","characters","chronicles","creative-process","creative-writing","enigmas","fictional-characters","funny","habits","hybrid","imagination","inspiration","jokes","life","mix","mysteries-of-life","mystery-novels","odd","oddity","one-hundred-one","people","people-relations","puns","real-character","real-life-drama","real-people","reality","short-stories","tales","tips","traits","writing","writing-tips"],"id":27911,"author_id":"Ana+Claudia+Antunes"},{"text":"More I get to know people, the more I tend to end up odd.","author":"Mustafa SULTAN","tags":["deceive","end","knowledge","life","manners","odd","people","style"],"id":37277,"author_id":"Mustafa+SULTAN"},{"text":"Being weird adds spice to life. Having weird friends just deepens the flavor.","author":"Jayelle Cochran","tags":["friends","odd","weird","weirdness"],"id":41342,"author_id":"Jayelle+Cochran"},{"text":"I believe in the simple things--the classic beginning of once upon a time, that good conquers evil in the end, fantasy and fate. My life is that of wondrous enchantment, a place of endless possibilities and dreams, where inspiration is found in the oddest of places. I aspire to inspire, and someday I will change the world,.","author":"Andrew Kendall","tags":["aspire","beginning","belief","believe","change","classic","conquer","dream","dreams","evil","fantasy","fate","good","inspiration","inspire","life","odd","once-upon-a-time","place","places","possibility","simple","someday","the-dark-dictionary","world"],"id":42682,"author_id":"Andrew+Kendall"},{"text":"I'm a lion in a strange land.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["ity","awkwardness","beast","courage","different","earth","king","land","lion","loneliness","misunderstanding","misunderstood","odd","original","outcast","strange","strength","strong","weird","world"],"id":54248,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":63,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}