{"quotes":[{"text":"What a tremendous sin impatience is, he thinks. It blinds us to the moment before us, and it is only when that moment has passed that we look back, and see it was full of treasures.","author":"Robert Jackson Bennett","tags":["impatience","inspirational","reflective","thoughts"],"id":9666,"author_id":"Robert+Jackson+Bennett"},{"text":"Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).","author":"Jess C. Scott","tags":["cyberpunk","elven","elves","family","friends","friendship","human-behavior","human-nature","humanity","humankind","humans","inside-ourselves","insight","insightful","life","life-lessons","love","meaning","meaning-of-life","nq-mobile-omar-khan","omar-khan-nq-mobile","reflection","reflective","social-commentary","social-issues","social-science","society","truth","urban-fantasy","urban-fantasy-series","ya-urban-fantasy","young-adult","young-adult-fiction","young-adult-literature","young-adult-novels","young-adult-series"],"id":57118,"author_id":"Jess+C.+Scott"},{"text":"Later, months later, when Jude thought back to the way it all went down -how did a burnout like him end up straight edge?- he'd remember that ambulance, just like the one he'd been unconscious inside. Its red cross, when viewed from the right angle, was an X on its side.","author":"Eleanor Henderson","tags":["ambulance","reflection","reflective","straight-edge"],"id":69789,"author_id":"Eleanor+Henderson"},{"text":"It's a kind of heresy to say so, but I think our race has made forms more beautiful than what was here before us. Sometimes god's handiwork is crude. There is no more ugly thing than a lobster. There's not much pretty about a caribou. It has an ungainly walk and its touchhole voids droppings when it strains in harness. Was there a straight line on earth before we drew one?","author":"Marcel Theroux","tags":["mankind","nature","reflective"],"id":71273,"author_id":"Marcel+Theroux"},{"text":"What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power.","author":"Michael Ondaatje","tags":["pensive","power","reflective","thoughtful"],"id":74336,"author_id":"Michael+Ondaatje"},{"text":"When they got to their hotel she went straight up to bed, but he paused to get a drink. There was, in the vestibule, a flower stall and he bought a handful of roses, stiffly wired into a bouquet, before proceeding to the oppressive gorgeousness of their bridal suite. The lift was lined with looking glass, so that as he shot upwards he got an endlessly duplicated version of himself, stout and nervous, a light cloak flung over his shoulder and flowers in his hand: an infinitely long row of gentlemen carrying offerings to an unforgiving past.","author":"Margaret Kennedy","tags":["body-image","emotion","flowers","heartbreak","love","nervous","nervousness","personal","reflection","reflective","relationships","romance","scrutiny","self-aware","self-awareness","self-esteem","self-observation","shy"],"id":95870,"author_id":"Margaret+Kennedy"},{"text":"The world after a war is a good world, I told myself. A happy world. A secure world. In this world, I might do anything.","author":"Jennifer Niven","tags":["life","peace","potential","reflections","reflective","war","world"],"id":98324,"author_id":"Jennifer+Niven"},{"text":"River smiled sweetly at his tormentors and told them, 'If you want to kick my ass, go ahead. Just explain to me why you're doing it.'After a confused pause, one of the skinheads said, 'Ah, you wouldn't be worth it.'We're all worth it, man,' River said with a beatific smile. 'We're all worth millions of planets and stars and galaxies and universes.","author":"Gavin Edwards","tags":["biography","emotional","heartbreaking","non-fiction","reflective","river-phoenix"],"id":103147,"author_id":"Gavin+Edwards"},{"text":"We are all only men, defined by our choices.","author":"I.E. Castellano","tags":["inspirational","philosophical","reflective","thought-provoking"],"id":112314,"author_id":"I.E.+Castellano"},{"text":"Is it not the disparity of wealth that consumes the willing soul. Rather, the golden keys of opportunity clamor softly with fraught anxiety of things which may never come.","author":"Joel T. McGrath","tags":["anxiety","honest","reflective","spiritual","true","wealth"],"id":117740,"author_id":"Joel+T.+McGrath"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":32,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}