{"quotes":[{"text":"And when I fall in love,” I began, 'I will build a mountain to touch the sky. Then, my lover and I will have the best of both worlds, reality firmly under our feet, while we have our heads in the clouds with all our illusions still intact. And the purple grass will grow all around, high enough to reach our eyes.","author":"V.C. Andrews","tags":["build","clouds","dreamers","dreaming","dreams","fall-in-love","feet","firm","grass","grounded","heads","idealists","ideals","illusions","love","lover","mountain","purple","realist","reality","sky","worlds"],"id":24862,"author_id":"V.C.+Andrews"},{"text":"It was strange walking through the empty apartment. My battered purple room was gone, Brittany’s bruised blue was gone. Two coats covered everything. It was like none of it had ever happened.","author":"Kimberly Novosel","tags":["blue","growing-up","moving-on","paint","painting","purple","saying-goodbye"],"id":36056,"author_id":"Kimberly+Novosel"},{"text":"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.","author":"Alice Walker","tags":["color","god","purple","religion"],"id":45344,"author_id":"Alice+Walker"},{"text":"I still have a lot of the stories I wrote in high school. Hand wrote... A number of them are in purple ink, rendering them illegible, a fact we should probably be forever thankful for.","author":"Shiloh Walker","tags":["school","high school","purple "],"id":50231,"author_id":"Shiloh+Walker"},{"text":"The bougainvillea hung about it, purple and magenta, in livid balloons.","author":"Anita Desai","tags":["anita-desai","bougainvillea","flowers","games-at-twilight","magenta","purple"],"id":83953,"author_id":"Anita+Desai"},{"text":"Purple,Wonder, majesty, and enchantment doesn'teven begin to cover the feelings that I had the first time that I met you that only grew. The feeling was nameless, but as time went on it developed a name. Eponine, I adore you…~Riley.","author":"Ottilie Weber","tags":["admiration","adore","enchantment","feelings","love","love-letter","purple","purple-rose","rose","the-one","the-one-you-love"],"id":135751,"author_id":"Ottilie+Weber"},{"text":"Prince turned experimental music into pop music. 'When Doves Cry,' the whole 'Purple Rain' soundtrack - he was inspired by the Cocteau Twins and new wave pop and brought it into R\u0026B when he first started, and then it became this cool, next-level, kind of hard-to-digest music. Which is what I felt 'House of Balloons' was.","author":"The Weeknd","tags":["music","rain","purple "],"id":143035,"author_id":"The+Weeknd"},{"text":"I had the great idea of using markers to gently color the ants so I could tell them apart, but I learned that this is exactly like somebody trying to gently color on you with a thirty-story building. Without dwelling on the tragedy, I'd just like to say that I'm deeply sorry to Mr. Purple and the surviving Purple family.","author":"Jim Benton","tags":["ants","building","coloring","funny","purple"],"id":197057,"author_id":"Jim+Benton"},{"text":"Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.","author":"Regina Brett","tags":["old age","purple","wait "],"id":264648,"author_id":"Regina+Brett"},{"text":"The sky is already purple; the first few stars have appeared, suddenly, as if someone had thrown a handful of silver across the edge of the world.","author":"Alice Hoffman","tags":["color","eve","night","purple","sparkles"],"id":296148,"author_id":"Alice+Hoffman"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":17,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}