{"quotes":[{"text":"Because you can never go from going out to being friends, just like that. It's a lie. It's just something that people say they'll do to take the permanence out of a breakup. And someone always takes it to mean more than it does, and then is hurt even more when, inevitably, said ‘friendly' relationship is still a major step down from the previous relationship, and it's like breaking up all over again. But messier.","author":"Sarah Dessen","tags":["breakup","sad-love","this-lullaby"],"id":738,"author_id":"Sarah+Dessen"},{"text":"Love?' he asked himself, giving no sense of recognition for that word in the dictionary of his mind. It was the only battle he had lost in life, the only thing that had been snatched away from him, before he could even claim it.","author":"Faraaz Kazi","tags":["love","sad-love","unrequited-love"],"id":18856,"author_id":"Faraaz+Kazi"},{"text":"Witch, do this for me,Find me a moonmade of longing.Then cut it sliver thin,and having cut it,hang it highabove my beloved's house,so that she may look uptonightand see it,and seeing it, sigh for meas I sigh for her,moon or no moon.","author":"Clive Barker","tags":["abarat","days-of-magic-nights-of-war","longing","love","sad-love"],"id":39980,"author_id":"Clive+Barker"},{"text":"Dear Lover...You are the only man, who never hurt me, but broke my heart.","author":"Lori Jenessa Nelson","tags":["dear-lover","heartbreak","love","poem","poetry","relationships","romance","sad-love"],"id":40732,"author_id":"Lori+Jenessa+Nelson"},{"text":"Dedicandote estos versos, una pulsera vieja, con tu nombre al reverso.I dedicate these verses, an old bracelet with your name on the back.","author":"INTERNET","tags":["emotions","new-life","old-times","sad-love"],"id":41898,"author_id":"INTERNET"},{"text":"Its not just your truth, Its my bad too...","author":"Ar Rohit bhardwaj","tags":["bad","being-apart","hurt","hurt-feelings","sad-love","sadness","truth"],"id":51641,"author_id":"Ar+Rohit+bhardwaj"},{"text":"Love, he told himself, was open to interpretation like any other abstract indulgence but followed the same principles everywhere, irrespective of everything else. One, either won or lost in love, there was no bridge in between, and he decided he had lost, lost to himself, if not to her.","author":"Faraaz Kazi","tags":["love","sad","sad-love","tragic","truth"],"id":72613,"author_id":"Faraaz+Kazi"},{"text":"With Dante gone, time seemed to stand still around me; the mornings just as cloudy and dark as the evenings, as if the sun had never decided to rise. There was no wind, like the world was holding its breath along with me, waiting for him to return.","author":"Yvonne Woon","tags":["absence","love","love-hurts","lovers-sadness","sad","sad-love","waiting","weather"],"id":83198,"author_id":"Yvonne+Woon"},{"text":"Walking alone is not difficult but when we have walked a mile worth a thousand years with someone then coming back alone is what is difficult.","author":"Faraaz Kazi","tags":["loneliness","love","moving-on","moving-on-and-letting-go","romance","sad","sad-but-true","sad-love","solitude","tragic"],"id":99154,"author_id":"Faraaz+Kazi"},{"text":"From midnight to 4: 00 AM is the loneliest time in the world. Because for those of us too sad to sleep, the only thing we have to look at is an empty bed, and the only thing we have to think of is every single person who didn't want to fill it tonight.","author":"Lone Alaskan Gypsy","tags":["break-up","loneliness","lonely","romance","sad","sad-love"],"id":106143,"author_id":"Lone+Alaskan+Gypsy"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":43,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}