{"quotes":[{"text":"We’re not the Faster-than-the-Speed-of-Light Generation anymore. We’re not even the Next-New-Thing Generation. We’re the Soon-to-Be-Obsolete Kids, and we’ve crowded in here to hide from the future and the past. We know what’s up – the future looms straight ahead like a black wrought-iron gate and the past is charging after us like a badass Doberman, only this one doesn’t have any letup in him.","author":"Tim Tharp","tags":["generation","graduating","graduation","growing-up","prom"],"id":11206,"author_id":"Tim+Tharp"},{"text":"One day, an unusually exciting event interrupted the rhythm of our regular middle-class teenage lives. A Russian woman, the mother of a girl in our class, was run over by a New York City bound train right in the center of town. Our classmate left school in the middle of the semester. The gossip was that the woman must have thrown herself under the train. The adults whispered about reasons, usual ones, but my friends and I were too busy planning what to wear to the prom to wonder about the savagery of adult passion.","author":"Inna Swinton","tags":["affair","anna-karenina","new-jersey","passion","prom","suicide","train"],"id":16066,"author_id":"Inna+Swinton"},{"text":"Is Lisa going to the prom?'I shelved my worries for the moment. 'I don't know, Mom. We don't talk about the You-Know-What. We made a pact.'You could go together, if you didn't want to mess with dates and things.'I don't want to mess with the prom at all, Mom.'She ignored me, placidly eating popcorn, piece by piece.'Some girls in my high school class did that and had a wonderful time. They weren't lesbians or anything. Not that it would matter if they were.'That's nice, Mom. I'm glad you're so open-minded.' I grabbed my Coke and the popcorn bowl and headed for the stairs, because I could go my whole life without ever hearing my mother talk about lesbians again.Maybe you could take Justin to the prom,' she called after me, laughter in her voice. 'He is such a hottie.'Shoot me now.","author":"Rosemary Clement-Moore","tags":["humor","mothers","prom"],"id":29757,"author_id":"Rosemary+Clement-Moore"},{"text":"Maybe we'll have vampire prom.'He shot me an appalled look. 'What is this, Twilight?","author":"Veronica Wolff","tags":["prom","vampires"],"id":40472,"author_id":"Veronica+Wolff"},{"text":"Beck behaved himself, though it was really difficult, especially during the slow dances when they were so tantalizingly close. He savoured the feel of her against his body, the light scent of her perfume, the in her eyes that told him he was the center of her universe. It was a new and totally overwhelming experience.","author":"Jana Oliver","tags":["dance","denver-beck","love","prom","riley-blackthorne"],"id":40577,"author_id":"Jana+Oliver"},{"text":"I liked my face. Ethan liked my face. A lot of people liked my face. Besides, makeup was really just glorified face paint.","author":"D.A. Paul","tags":["boyfriends","face","funny","funny","girls","high-school","humor","makeup","prom","self-love","skin","teenagers"],"id":59831,"author_id":"D.A.+Paul"},{"text":"According to Sarah, who had gone two years ago, prom was famous for being an overpriced disappointment where most people had no fun.","author":"Cammie McGovern","tags":["accurate","disappointment","fun","high-school","humor","jaded","overrated","prom","teens","world-weary","ya"],"id":68451,"author_id":"Cammie+McGovern"},{"text":"My name is CRPS, or so they say But I actually go by; a few different names. I was once called causalgia, nearly 150 years ago And then I had a new name It was RSD, apparently so. I went by that name because the burn lived inside of me.Now I am called CRPS, because I have so much to say I struggle to be free. I don't have one symptom and this is where I change, I attack the home of where I live; with shooting/burning pains. Depression fills the mind of the body I belong, it starts to speak harsh to self, negativity growing strong.Then I start to annoy them; with the issues with sensitivity, You'd think the pain enough; but no, it wants to make you aware of its trembling disability. I silently make my move; but the screams are loud and clear, Because I enter your physical reality and you can't disappear. I confuse your thoughts; I contain apart of your memory, I cover your perspective, the fog makes it sometimes unbearable to see. I play with your temperature levels, I make you nervous all the time - I take away your independance and take away your pride.I stay with you by the day \u0026 I remind you by the night, I am an awful journey and you will struggle with this fight. Then there's a side to me; not many understand, I have the ability to heal and you can be my friend. Help yourself find the strength to fight me with all you have, because eventually I'll get tired of making you grow mad. It will take some time; remember I mainly live inside your brain,Curing me is hard work but I promise you, You can beat me if you feed love to my pain. Find the strength to carry on and feed the fears with light; hold on to the seat because, like I said, it's going to be a fight. But I hope to meet you, when your healthy and healed, \u0026 you will silenty say to me - I did this, I am cured is this real? That day could possibly come; closer than I want- After all I am a disease and I'm fighting for my spot. I won't deny from my medical angle, I am close to losing the ' incurable ' battle.","author":"Nikki Rowe","tags":["awareness","chronic-illness","chronic-pain","chronically-fabulous","complex-regional-pain-syndrome","courage","crps","crps-awareness","crps-poem","cure-crps","depression","find-a-cure","heal-yourself","healer","hope","invisible-illness-powerful","light-worker","never-give-up","positivity","powerful","prom","rsd","spiritual","strength"],"id":118646,"author_id":"Nikki+Rowe"},{"text":"Nobody wants to give up a weekend-long excuse to dress up and attempt to outshine one another.","author":"Elizabeth Eulberg","tags":["arrogance","ball","formal","funny","hair","high-school","humor","humour","makeup","pride","prom"],"id":119348,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Eulberg"},{"text":"The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle.","author":"John Green","tags":["college","friendship","missing-person","prom","road-trip","teen-novel","young-adults"],"id":149567,"author_id":"John+Green"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":19,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}