{"quotes":[{"text":"Then I made her understand that, where she was concerned, I was only a poor dog, ready to die for her. But that she could marry the young man she pleased because she had cried with me, and mingled her tears with mine. ~ Erik.","author":"Gaston Leroux","tags":["erik","passion","phantom"],"id":7664,"author_id":"Gaston+Leroux"},{"text":"Monsieur, you must be mad!Box Five can never be hadFor money, love or the world ...","author":"E.A. Bucchianeri","tags":["box-five","opera-ghost","opera-house","phantom","phantom-of-the-opera","poem","poetry","poetry"],"id":25079,"author_id":"E.A.+Bucchianeri"},{"text":"A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.","author":"Victor Hugo","tags":["les-miserables","life","phantom","shadow","struggle"],"id":41641,"author_id":"Victor+Hugo"},{"text":"The day arrived,when myriad teary rivers flow and the muted wind faintly died in his tears—an altar for the beloved one's departure,for sister-hood is no more,for her to adore!While pangs the beating world in a lamenting voice;their remembering loss of the 'one' they embrace most and when the crepuscule came like a phantom,the mournful,gathered birds swiftly flew in gloom.","author":"Nithin Purple","tags":["adore","altar","beloved","birds","crepuscular","crepuscule","death","embarrassment","embrace","faint","gathering-darkness","gloom","gloominess","gloomy","lament","life","literature","loss","love-lost","mournful","mournfulness","muted","nithin-purple","nithinpurple","pangs","patience","peace","phantom","poems","poems-on-life","poetry","poetry","remembered","sister-love","sisterhood","swift","swiftly","tears","teary","world","worldly","writers"],"id":51416,"author_id":"Nithin+Purple"},{"text":"A mask you ask? Optional I find!Masks lend appeal of a mysterious kind.","author":"E.A. Bucchianeri","tags":["appeal","costume-party","costumes","erik","mask","maskerade","masks","masquerade","mysterious","mysterious-attraction","mystery","opera-ghost","phantom","phantom-of-the-opera","poem","poetry","poetry"],"id":60016,"author_id":"E.A.+Bucchianeri"},{"text":"And that's why people no longer care which words they use as long as they use lots of them.","author":"Norton Juster","tags":["care","people","phantom","tollbooth","words"],"id":63116,"author_id":"Norton+Juster"},{"text":"Yet, beauty cannot be forgotten,Eternal Wisdom can never die ...","author":"E.A. Bucchianeri","tags":["beauty","eternal-wisdom","eternity","immortality","inspirational","opera-ghost","phantom","phantom-of-the-opera","philosophical","poem","poems","poetry","poetry","truth","wisdom"],"id":76174,"author_id":"E.A.+Bucchianeri"},{"text":"Weariness, which seeketh to get to the ultimate with one leap, with a death-leap; a poor ignorant weariness, unwilling even to will any longer: that created all Gods and backworlds.","author":"Friedrich Nietzsche","tags":["god","phantom","religion","weariness","will"],"id":86089,"author_id":"Friedrich+Nietzsche"},{"text":"True beauty lies not upon gilded veneers,But found in the soul within.","author":"E.A. Bucchianeri","tags":["beauty","christine-daae","erik","inspirational","opera-ghost","phantom","phantom-of-the-opera","philosophical","poem","poetry","poetry","soul","true-beauty","truth","veneers","wisdom"],"id":87490,"author_id":"E.A.+Bucchianeri"},{"text":"If Erik existed and lived life in despair,We wish him to know we are here and we care.","author":"E.A. Bucchianeri","tags":["despair","devotion","erik","hope","opera-ghost","phan","phans","phantom","phantom-of-the-opera","phantom-phans","poem","poetry","poetry"],"id":103531,"author_id":"E.A.+Bucchianeri"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":34,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}