{"quotes":[{"text":"I clench my fists and try not to scream and I tuck my friends in my hea.","author":"Tahereh Mafi","tags":["destroy","ignite","me","revenge","scream","shatter"],"id":7762,"author_id":"Tahereh+Mafi"},{"text":"It takes years to build on to a dream but only a second to shatter.","author":"Chirag Tulsiani","tags":["build","dream","shatter"],"id":22245,"author_id":"Chirag+Tulsiani"},{"text":"We often try to see the reflections of the people who left us in the people who come to stay with us and in the course of doing so, we often try to change them to someone who they are not and we often end up turning them into the pieces of same shattered mirror that used to hurt us before they came.","author":"Akshay Vasu","tags":["left","love","mirror","people","reflection","shatter","someone","stay","turn"],"id":67732,"author_id":"Akshay+Vasu"},{"text":"All around him the branches of the trees had frozen solid, reaching out white fingers of glass that looked as if they would shatter in any breeze, or chime like musical bells. The world looked strangely magical.","author":"Alex Nye","tags":["branches","breeze","chime","fingers","magical","musical-bells","shatter","snow","trees"],"id":81032,"author_id":"Alex+Nye"},{"text":"She was sitting in a dark room, curled up and her head buried on her knees. His name echoing in her mind, like a thunder over a seashore. She was torn between the happiness brought by the waves, that touched her feet and fear of losing herself in the chaos. Created by the sound that shattered her whole world into pieces.","author":"Akshay Vasu","tags":["chaos","dark","echo","happiness","pieces","seashore","shatter","thunder","waves"],"id":87466,"author_id":"Akshay+Vasu"},{"text":"He stood in a room, looking around, seeing thousands of himself. He banged the walls made of mirrors, but they wouldn't break. Thier laugh filled his heart and with fear, he curled up and sat there. And then She came out of nowhere and wrapped her arm around him. She held his hand, together they got up and walked towards a wall. He raised his head and looked at the reflections, but all he saw there was only him. She turned and smiled at him and touched the wall. It cracked and shattered into pieces. She inside him broke all the walls around him. He was free, he was not held and haunted by his reflections anymore.","author":"Akshay Vasu","tags":["break","crack","fear","free","freedom","haunted","heart","held","him","love","mirrors","pain","pieces-bang","reflections","safe","shatter","she","walls"],"id":92523,"author_id":"Akshay+Vasu"},{"text":"Silence is not empty or immaterial, and it is not needed to chain tame things. It often guards powers strong enough to shatter everything.","author":"Emmi Itäranta","tags":["promises","shatter","silence","tame"],"id":161543,"author_id":"Emmi+It%C3%A4ranta"},{"text":"Humans could never accept the world as it was and live in it. They were always breaking it and living amongst the shattered pieces.","author":"Robin Hobb","tags":["bend","break","earth","force","human-beings","humankind","humans","live","method","mold","nature","remake","shatter","style","way"],"id":189980,"author_id":"Robin+Hobb"},{"text":"She shook her head, and closed her eyes. I felt her weariness then, and with it, my own. I felt it dark and heavy upon me, darker and heavier than any drug they ever gave me - it seemed heavy as death. I looked at the bed. I have seemed to see our kisses there sometimes, I've seen them hanging in the curtains, like bats, ready to swoop. Now, I thought, I might jolt the post and they would only fall, and shatter, and turn to powder.","author":"Sarah Waters","tags":["bats","dark","drug","eyes","heavy","kisses","powder","shatter","weariness","weary"],"id":192050,"author_id":"Sarah+Waters"},{"text":"It took something massive to shatter a Mimic endo-skeleton in one hit. That it could kill me in the process was beside the point.","author":"Hiroshi Sakurazaka","tags":["kill","mimic","self","shatter"],"id":243929,"author_id":"Hiroshi+Sakurazaka"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":15,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}