{"quotes":[{"text":"Some ghost of myself still lived back in the days when we'd shared a bed and talked of the future. But that love we'd had and those selves we'd been were gone, placed in a box like old photographs and letters you'd never read again.","author":"Dennis Lehane","tags":["relationships","sad-but-true"],"id":1503,"author_id":"Dennis+Lehane"},{"text":"Sometimes two people will regard each other over a gulf too wide to ever be bridged, and know immediately what could have happened, and that it never will.","author":"Roger Ebert","tags":["love","sad-but-true","sadness"],"id":8962,"author_id":"Roger+Ebert"},{"text":"It was a war, and in a war there are always casualties. Never winners, but always plenty of casualties.","author":"Mili Fay","tags":["casualties-of-war","sad-but-true","war","warrior"],"id":11792,"author_id":"Mili+Fay"},{"text":"If you are eager to find the reason I became the Kvothe they tell stories about, you could look there, I suppose.'Chronicler's forehead wrinkled. 'What do you mean, exactly?'Kvothe paused for a long moment, looking down at his hands. 'Do you know how many times I've been beaten over the course of my life?'Chronicler shook his head.Looking up, Kvothe grinned and tossed his shoulders in a nonchalant shrug. 'Neither do I. You'd think that sort of thing would stick in a person's mind. You'd think I would remember how many bones I've had broken. You'd think I'd remember the stitches and bandages.' He shook his head. 'I don't. I remember that young boy sobbing in the dark. Clear as a bell after all these years.'Chronicler frowned. 'You said yourself that there was nothing you could have done.'I could have,' Kvothe said seriously, 'and I didn't. I made my choice and I regret it to this day. Bones mend. Regret stays with you forever.","author":"Patrick Rothfuss","tags":["path","sad-but-true","sword-sentiments"],"id":15142,"author_id":"Patrick+Rothfuss"},{"text":"Just … isn’t giving up allowed sometimes? Isn’t it okay to say, ‘This really hurts, so I’m going to stop trying’?","author":"Rainbow Rowell","tags":["good-books","sad-but-true","true-to-life","writers"],"id":27167,"author_id":"Rainbow+Rowell"},{"text":"An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["depression","depression","live-in-the-here-and-now","live-in-the-moment","live-in-the-now","live-in-the-present","sad-but-true","sad","sadness","sadness"],"id":30359,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"This here is your inheritance, says the senior partner. Yes, he says, Ludwig, I know, and stows the plan for the bathing house (5.5m long, 3.8m wide, outer wall construction: wood, roof construction: thatch), stows both the plan and the mosquito in his briefcase. On a German shelf, this mosquito, pressed flat between large quantities of paper, will outlast time and times, and one day it might even be petrified, who knows.","author":"Jenny Erpenbeck","tags":["foresight","german-history","loss","poignant","sad-but-true"],"id":36665,"author_id":"Jenny+Erpenbeck"},{"text":"But at home, that same day he'd jumped into the fountain, he'd gotten so anxious, pacing around the living room listening to his parents try to calm him, that he suddenly just lost it completely and slapped his face. He immediately started crying, confused and guilty, looking up at his parents like he had no idea how it happened. And, really, that's the way it always was with the hitting. It would happen so fast, his body shaking to release the tension that built up from all the thoughts swirling through his mind and all the air he was having trouble breathing and all the loud beating of his own heart ringing in his ears. It had to get out and that was the path it chose. Slap. Instant relief.","author":"John Corey Whaley","tags":["anxiety","relatable","sad-but-true","spoilers"],"id":42938,"author_id":"John+Corey+Whaley"},{"text":"Life is brutal that way... The loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction.","author":"Dan Simmons","tags":["cantos-3","dan-simmons","endymion","hyperion","inspirational","sad","sad-but-true"],"id":43214,"author_id":"Dan+Simmons"},{"text":"Sometimes, people meant it when they smiled. Other times, they smiled because they wanted to mean it.","author":"Shannon A. Thompson","tags":["depression","depression","sad-but-true","sad-smile","sadness","smile","smiles"],"id":59333,"author_id":"Shannon+A.+Thompson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":110,"pages":11,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}