{"quotes":[{"text":"We look up to see if it is day or night. If stars burn cool and moon does shine, we take to smoke divine and wine. If breath of sun does belch its heat, we boil coffee and prepare to eat.","author":"Roman Payne","tags":["balance","coffee","day","drinking","eat","food","moon","night","payne","roman","seasons","smoke","smoking","stoic","sun","times","wine"],"id":16079,"author_id":"Roman+Payne"},{"text":"You have been missing from me for far too long.","author":"Belle Hale","tags":["ella","eternal","imprint","kahoa","link","love","roman","soul","taylor"],"id":19431,"author_id":"Belle+Hale"},{"text":"So our virtuesLie in the interpretation of the time:And power, unto itself most commendable,Hath not a tomb so evident as a chairTo extol what it hath done.One fire drives out one fire; one nail, one nail;Rights by rights falter, strengths by strengths do fail.","author":"William Shakespeare","tags":["politics","roman","tragedy"],"id":20429,"author_id":"William+Shakespeare"},{"text":"Looking back on my life, I sigh. The caprice of youth goes with the wind, I’ve no regrets.","author":"Roman Payne","tags":["caprice","carpe-diem","great","learning","life","life-lessons","literature","novel","payne","regret","regrets","roman","roman-payne","sigh","time","wind","youth"],"id":27676,"author_id":"Roman+Payne"},{"text":"Who is better off? The one who writes to revel in the voluptuousness of the life that surrounds them? Or the one who writes to escape the tediousness of that which awaits them outside? Whose flame will last longer?","author":"Roman Payne","tags":["-interview","books","escape","flame","heroic","heroism","interview","novel-writing","novelist","publishing","roman","roman-payne","tediousness","voluptuousness","writer","writers","writing"],"id":29961,"author_id":"Roman+Payne"},{"text":"...To be able to enjoy the life you have spent, is to live it twice.","author":"Marcus Valerius Martialis","tags":["epigams","latin","life","living","martial","reflection","roman"],"id":31865,"author_id":"Marcus+Valerius+Martialis"},{"text":"About five meters ahead, Nico was swinging his black sword with one hand, holding the scepter of Diocletian aloft with the other. He kept shouting orders at the legionnaires, but they paid him no atte.","author":"Rick Riordan","tags":["diocletian","frank-zhang","greek","heroes-of-olympus","house-of-hades","jason-grace","legion","legionnaires","nico-di-angelo","percy-jackson","rick-riordan","roman"],"id":38243,"author_id":"Rick+Riordan"},{"text":"It made the woman feel like a thousand seas had come together from all worlds, like faraway lands had been bridged together, and the vastness of the known and the unknown were somehow easier to comprehend.","author":"Cristina M. Sburlea","tags":["adventure","ancient","epic","epic-fantasy","epic-love","fantasy","gods","mythology","roman","titans"],"id":48038,"author_id":"Cristina+M.+Sburlea"},{"text":"Women are extraordinary creatures!","author":"Roman Payne","tags":["creatures","extraordinary","extraordinary-women","fashion","gender","gender-equality","gender-identity","gender-stereotypes","girl","girls","love","moda","mode","payne","roman","style","woman","womanhood","women"],"id":52559,"author_id":"Roman+Payne"},{"text":"The world is mere change, and this life, opinion.","author":"Marcus Aurelius","tags":["philosophy-of-life","psychology","roman","spirituality"],"id":66262,"author_id":"Marcus+Aurelius"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":71,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}