{"quotes":[{"text":"Sit your affections, your heart and your precious time out on the doorstep without so much as making him ring the doorbell first, and he’ll treat you like a doormat. Make him work a little to get next to you, and he won’t stop til you’re his.","author":"Mandy Hale","tags":["dating","hard-to-get","knowing-your-worth","love","playing-hard-to-get","positive-thinking","relationships","self-worth","standards","the-single-woman"],"id":13541,"author_id":"Mandy+Hale"},{"text":"A busy, vibrant, goal-oriented woman is so much more attractive than a woman who waits around for a man to validate her existence.","author":"Mandy Hale","tags":["being-single","dating","goals","hard-to-get","holding-out-for-the-best","love","loving-yourself","not-settling","playing-hard-to-get","positive-thinking","relationships","single","single-life","single-woman","singleness","standards","the-single-woman","validation"],"id":34497,"author_id":"Mandy+Hale"},{"text":"Too easy to get = Just as easy to forget.","author":"Mandy Hale","tags":["being-hard-to-get","easy-to-get","hard-to-get","holding-out-for-the-best","knowing-your-worth","not-settling","playing-hard-to-get","positive-thinking","self-worth","standards"],"id":45330,"author_id":"Mandy+Hale"},{"text":"I have heard it said that one loses a woman by loving her too much, that an affectation of coldness, from time to time, brings better results. And so on. I shall play no such tricks with you … Let love be truly love—that is, let it be peace—or let it not exist at all.","author":"Henry de Montherlant","tags":["dating","dating-advice","dating-tips","honesty","integrity","love","love-tactics","peace","playing-hard-to-get","romance","romance-tactics","romantic","seduction"],"id":178547,"author_id":"Henry+de+Montherlant"},{"text":"Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it. I drank more and continued my mantra. 'Stop thinking', swig, 'empty your head', swig, 'now, seriously empty your head'.","author":"Gillian Flynn","tags":["alcohol","alcoholic","alone","binging","cat","cats","drinking","empty-your-head","ignorance","ignoring","insomnia","lonely","mantra","murphy-s-law","playing-hard-to-get","self-assurance","sleep","sleeping","stop-thinking","talking-to-yourself","the-mind","thinking","thinking-process","thoughts","voices-inside-your-head"],"id":367292,"author_id":"Gillian+Flynn"},{"text":"Learn well and play well.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["learn","learned-lessons-from-others","learning","learning-by-doing","learning-from-adversity","learning-from-our-struggles","learning-to-read","life","play","playing","playing-hard-to-get","playing-with-reality","reading"],"id":374125,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":6,"pages":1}}