{"quotes":[{"text":"Random lines, Beyond the Darkness: 'Playing 'tag, you're it' against a car is a bad idea.","author":"Jaime Rush","tags":["offspring","pnr","shapeshifter","suspense","urban-fantasy"],"id":4158,"author_id":"Jaime+Rush"},{"text":"Relax, having kids is years away. But can you imagine? Your brains, my charm, our collective good looks... Then add in the usual physical abilities dhampirs get. It's really not even fair to everyone else.","author":"Richelle Mead","tags":["adrian-ivashkov","babies","bloodlines","future","humor","offspring","otp","richelle-mead","sydney-sage","sydrian","the-fiery-heart"],"id":34426,"author_id":"Richelle+Mead"},{"text":"Being a bad parent is a sign of not having learned from experience.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["aphorism","aphorisms","bad-parent","bad-parenting","bad-parents","child","children","experience","experienced","families","family","good-parent","good-parenting","good-parents","humor","humour","kid","kids","learn-from-experience","marriage","marriages","nuclear-families","nuclear-family","offspring","parent","parenthood","parenting","parenting-tip","parenting-tips","parents","quotation","quotations","quote","quotes","relationship","relationships","satire","seasoned","wedding","weddings"],"id":38515,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"But Nita had always seen having a child as selfish. Why bring another soul into this world, she'd say, when there are so many out there that need our help?","author":"Ramez Naam","tags":["adopt","adopted","adopted-kids","adoption","breeding","child","children","offspring","parent","parenthood","parenting","parents","selfish"],"id":49747,"author_id":"Ramez+Naam"},{"text":"From Out of the Darkness (book 2):Zoe met Eric's eyes. Even in her platforms she was still a few inches shorter than he was. 'And what do you do?'His mouth quirked. 'I set people on fire.","author":"Jaime Rush","tags":["offspring","paranormal-romance","pnr","pyro","urban-fantasy"],"id":52342,"author_id":"Jaime+Rush"},{"text":"Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["age","aged","aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","belief","beliefs","birth","burial","bury","child","children","cycle","dead","death","die","elder","elders","fallacies","fallacy","funeral","funerals","funny","gone-too-soon","hereafter","hilarious","humor","humorous","humour","immortal","immortality","joke","jokes","kid","kids","life","life-after-death","life-and-death","misbelief","misbeliefs","misconception","misconceptions","mortal","mortality","newborn","newborns","offspring","old","old-age","old-age-home","old-age-homes","philosopher","philosophers-cry","philosophic","philosophy","prepare","prepared","quotations","quotes","rest-in-peace","rip","satire","stoic","stoicism","stoics","surprise","surprising","the-elders","the-hereafter","tomb","tombstone","tombstones","unprepared","weep"],"id":54786,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"The answer to the question ‘How many children do you have?’ and the one to the question ‘How many children are you raising?’ are not identical in all cases: some men are not taking care of their own children, some are knowingly or unknowingly raising other men’s children, and some do not even know that they each have a child, another child, or other children.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["abort","abortion","absent-father","absent-fathers","absent-mother","absent-mothers","adopt","adoption","aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","brother","brothers","care","child","children","funny","humor","humour","irresponsible","joke","jokes","kid","kids","nurture","offspring","parent","parenthood","raise","raising","rear","rearing","responsibilities","responsibility","responsible","satire","sibling","siblings","sister","sisters","stepchild","stepchildren","unplanned-pregnancies","unplanned-pregnancy","upbringing"],"id":68926,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"If I release you, you won't scream? I'd rather not continue the conversation like this.'She shook her head, and he freed her. She scrambled away from him, feeling the grooves of the headboard bite into her back when she slammed into it. He sat back on her bed, his hands on his jean-clad thighs. The hair at his neck curled from dampness. 'You don't have to be afraid of me.' She almost laughed. 'A stranger breaks in, and I'm supposed to be cool with that?' 'Amy, we're not strangers.","author":"Jaime Rush","tags":["offspring","pnr","psychic","romantic-suspense","urban-fantasy"],"id":153485,"author_id":"Jaime+Rush"},{"text":"Despite progress witnessed elsewhere in the matters of heart, parents in this part of the world hadn’t quite come around to letting their adult offspring choose their lovers.","author":"Pawan Mishra","tags":["emotions","heart","independence","love","marriage","matter-of-heart","offspring","parents-and-children","progress","witness"],"id":246243,"author_id":"Pawan+Mishra"},{"text":"The red lipstick? It's supposed to signal fertility and readiness to mate. Just like the swollen red butt of a baboon. That tight-fitting little dress that shows off your curves? From the standpoint of evolutionary biology, big breasts represent a healthy mate who can feed a lot of offspring. That's why men are programmed to like big tits. When you show off your curves, what you're really doing is advertising to the whole world: 'Look at me! I'm a healthy female! I'd be a perfect mate! Come mount me!","author":"Oliver Markus","tags":["baboon","baboons","big-breasts-and-wide-hips","breast-implants","breasts","breasts-enhancement","butt","butts","curves","curvy","curvy-woman","dress","dresses","dressing-up","evolution","evolution-humor","evolutionary-biology","evolutionary-psychology","fertility","lipstick","mating-call","mating-ritual","mating-rituals","offspring","tits"],"id":253889,"author_id":"Oliver+Markus"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":24,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}