{"quotes":[{"text":"Other’s power, other’s enjoyments, other’s space, people have become the owners of that which does not belong to one’s self. 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He sighed again. It seemed to be a wonderful day for Mykl d’Angelo, captain and owner of the ‘tramp’ freighter Pegasus. As wonderful days went on his personal scale, this one was rated one of the best.","author":"Christina Engela","tags":["again","alarm","and","as","best","d-angelo","day","he","of","owner","pegasus","scale","seat","sighed","this","wonderful"],"id":206691,"author_id":"Christina+Engela"},{"text":"Nothing belongs to itself anymore. These trees are yours because you once looked at them. These streets are yours because you once traversed them. These coffee shops and bookshops, these cafés and bars, their sole owner is you. They gave themselves so willingly, surrendering to your perfume. You sang with the birds and they stopped to listen to you. You smiled at the sheepish stars and they fell into your hair. The sun and moon, the sea and mountain, they have all left from heartbreak. Nothing belongs to itself anymore. You once spoke to Him, and then God became yours. He sits with us in darkness now to plot how to make you ours.” K.K.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["anymore","bar","belong","belonging","belongs","beloved","birds","bookshop","bookstore","boyfriend","cafe","coffee-shop","dark","darkness","girlfriend","god","hair","heartbreak","husband","in-love","itself","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","listen","love","love-poems","love","lover","loving","moon","mountain","nature","nothing","owner","partner","perfume","plot","restaurant","roads","romantic-poems","sang","sea","sheepish","shop","short-love-poems","sit","smile","stars","store","streets","sun","traversed","trees","valentine","wife"],"id":237855,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":24,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}