{"quotes":[{"text":"Life,' Graveworthy said, when he saw Jack was awake and staring at him, 'is a series of desperate gambles and boxing matches for the wits, bookended on the one side by events in which one is shot at, and on the other end by mornings like this.","author":"Sam Starbuck","tags":["bookended","boxing-matches","gambloes","life","moments","morningside","shot","wits"],"id":28306,"author_id":"Sam+Starbuck"},{"text":"The nation was awakened by that deafening shot.","author":"Corazon Aquino","tags":["nation","shot","awakened "],"id":30362,"author_id":"Corazon+Aquino"},{"text":"When the bombs fell, it wasn't a war; it was an obliteration. No one had any idea who shot first or why.","author":"Joe Reyes","tags":["bombs","dystopian","dystopian-fiction","fight","obliteration","shot","tradgedy","war","warfare"],"id":42802,"author_id":"Joe+Reyes"},{"text":"Mind you, the effectiveness of one hunter’s gun does not determine the number of bush meats the other hunter will kill. You got to be yourself. Be you.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["animal","be-you","be-yourself","bush","bush-meats","determine","effect","effective","effectiveness","food-for-thought","game","games","gun","hunter","israelmore-ayivor","kill","meat","mind","mind-you","number","shot","unique"],"id":74710,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"And he's alone there, with the unconscious pilot lying a little way off for company, and some other guy he's never even seen, only spoken to over the radio.He wants to sleep so badly - dying they call it - and he can't. Something's bothering him to keep him awake. ('Jane Brown's Body').","author":"Cornell Woolrich","tags":["crime","dying","noir","shot"],"id":102482,"author_id":"Cornell+Woolrich"},{"text":"Whenever you come upon a free supply of high-quality corn, provided unexpectedly right there in the middle of the forest, be careful! The people who put it there are probably sitting nearby in a stand, just waiting to take a shot at you. Keep your eyes and ears open!","author":"James C. Dobson","tags":["at","be","careful","ears","eyes","high-quality","keep","open","people","provided","shot","take","unexpectedly","waiting","you","your"],"id":135646,"author_id":"James+C.+Dobson"},{"text":"HELP!”I race to the square, crossing it, looking all around, listenin.","author":"Patrick Ness","tags":["help","hope","shot","viola"],"id":159461,"author_id":"Patrick+Ness"},{"text":"Next to the day when I was almost shot by that arrow, the worst day of my life was when I was almost eaten.","author":"Jennifer Frick-Ruppert","tags":["adventure","arrow","bad-day","eaten","life-lessons","life-or-death","life-or-death-moments","middle-grade-reads","mishaps","native-american","native-american-wisdom","shot","worse-things-in-life","worst-day"],"id":167999,"author_id":"Jennifer+Frick-Ruppert"},{"text":"A second red-orange spearhead leaps straight at O'Shaughnessy. The whole world seems to stand still. Then the gun behind it crashes, and there's a cataclysm of pain all over him, and a shock goes through him as if he ran head-on into a stone wall.A voice from the car says blurredly, while the ground rushes up to meet him, 'Finish him up, you guys! I'm getting so I don't trust their looks no more, no matter how stiff they act!' ('Jane Brown's Body').","author":"Cornell Woolrich","tags":["crime","gunplay","guns","mob","mobsters","noir","shot"],"id":170572,"author_id":"Cornell+Woolrich"},{"text":"Destiny gets compressed, you know, into just that small fraction of a second you have right in front of you at any one time. And there’s nothing romantic about keeping your head down to avoid getting shot, or trying to save a friend who’s been injured, or coming face to face with a creature who is as smart and mean and as terrified of dying as you are, and who wants to make sure that if someone is left on the ground there, it’s you and not it.","author":"John Scalzi","tags":["creature","destiny","fraction","friend","ground","head","romantic","second","shot","someone","time"],"id":195738,"author_id":"John+Scalzi"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":28,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}