{"quotes":[{"text":"He was dropped under a streetlamp, the only person left on the bus. A patch of mauled light. Gritty pavement, scarred with a million cigarette burns. Weeds and spit and oil. Place like this, the only glitter was the knife just before it sank in. Place like this, there wasn't any gold.","author":"Rupert Thomson","tags":["cigarette-burns","city","gold","gritty","knife","pavement","place-like-this"],"id":92231,"author_id":"Rupert+Thomson"},{"text":"She needed to get out of there. Her brains, thankfully, were still safely in her skull, but her emotions were splattered on the pavement.","author":"Francine Pascal","tags":["brains","emotions","pavement","splattered"],"id":247026,"author_id":"Francine+Pascal"},{"text":"The path of destiny is not always paved smooth with gold.","author":"A.J. Darkholme","tags":["destiny","gold","path","paved","pavement","road"],"id":294845,"author_id":"A.J.+Darkholme"},{"text":"Take your own route, not the route everyone is using or taking. Create your own way; there is always traffic on the common route.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["be-you","be-yourself","crowd","food-for-thought","israelmore-ayivor","passion","path","pathway","pavement","personal-development","road","route","traffic","unique","uniqueness","way"],"id":331198,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"The road to success is paved with the hot asphalt of failure.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["asphalt","byway","fail","failure","heated","highway","hot","path","pave","paved","pavement","road","success","successful","unsuccessful"],"id":397059,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":5,"pages":1}}