{"quotes":[{"text":"A fine glass vase goes from treasure to trash, the moment it is broken. Fortunately, something else happens to you and me. Pick up your pieces. Then, help me gather mine.","author":"Vera Nazarian","tags":["aid","assistance","breaking","broken","broken-glass","commuity","esteem","glass","help","helping","helping-others","not-alone","pieces","recovery","self","self-esteem","self-help","shattered","shattered-glass","support","together","togetherness","trash","treasure","value","vase","worth"],"id":12493,"author_id":"Vera+Nazarian"},{"text":"You shattered the remainder of my heart, yet you expect me to be okay with it day after day.","author":"Ahmed Mostafa","tags":["broken-heart","broken-hearted","fake-love","faking-it","lost-love","lost-love","pretending","pretentiousness","shattered","shattered-heart","shattered-souls","tolerance","toleration"],"id":19219,"author_id":"Ahmed+Mostafa"},{"text":"You've left me with a kaleidoscope of broken smiles and shattered dreams.","author":"Karen Quan","tags":["dreams","heartbreak","heartbroken","loss","love-lost","quotes","relationship","sadness","shattered"],"id":21881,"author_id":"Karen+Quan"},{"text":"I feel like I am a diluted version of myself. A piece of crayon that was left unused. An abandoned car that was forgotten by its owner. I feel like I am a roadside accident. People are just stopping by to see the damage, but no one is trying to help me. I want you to come back and stop me from burning my own fuel. I want you to put me back in the pack of crayons. I want you to make me whole again.","author":"Bhavya Kaushik","tags":["damaged","grief","life","lose","lost","love","shattered"],"id":57477,"author_id":"Bhavya+Kaushik"},{"text":"A lame creature, a cripple like myself, has no right to love. How should I, broken, shattered being that I am, be anything but a burden to you, when to myself I am an object of disgust, of loathing. A creature such as I, I know, has no right to love, and certainly no right to be loved. It is for such a creature to creep away into a corner and die and cease to make other people's lives a burden with her presence.","author":"Stefan Zweig","tags":["broken","burden","cease","creature","creep","cripple","die","disgust","hide","lame","loathing","love","right","shattered"],"id":61520,"author_id":"Stefan+Zweig"},{"text":"I, on the other hand, felt as I always have, like I were water seeping from a broken pot; I existed but had no form to hold me in place.","author":"Krishna Udayasankar","tags":["broken","devastated","existence","life-challenges","lost","shattered","shattered-souls"],"id":68833,"author_id":"Krishna+Udayasankar"},{"text":"GOD made you a masterpiece, stop treating yourself like a shattered piece.","author":"TemitOpe Ibrahim","tags":["believe-in-yourself","inspirational","inspirational","masterpiece","motivational","motivational","perspective","reality","shattered"],"id":81365,"author_id":"TemitOpe+Ibrahim"},{"text":"Even though on the outside we glittered like gold, inside we were almost as black as coal. Sometimes the glitter people saw was only the shattered pieces reflecting among the broken glass.","author":"Tracy Krimmer","tags":["broken","broken-glass","deep-thoughts","glitter","shattered","shattered-souls"],"id":82331,"author_id":"Tracy+Krimmer"},{"text":"...Here lie your hopes and dreams, shattered and swept aside...","author":"Dean Koontz","tags":["broken","burke-bailey-s","dreams","glass","hopes","odd-thomas","shattered","stormy-llewellyn"],"id":100402,"author_id":"Dean+Koontz"},{"text":"The past is but an untraceable footfallIt appears in intervals and pushes us back in time,In those moments of grief and then suddenly vanishes.It’s often dark and ruthless.It baffles our thoughts and seizes our peace of mind.By making us recollect our failures, our buried expectationsAnd our shattered dreams It only gives way to fleeting tears, leaving us with fruitless guilt.It wrecks our present and ruins our futureAnd thus should be left where it is meant to beIt should be left behind ….","author":"Chirag Tulsiani","tags":["behind","dreams","guilt","past","shattered","time","wreck"],"id":121431,"author_id":"Chirag+Tulsiani"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":30,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}