{"quotes":[{"text":"Tell me a truth, Senna.'I don't know how,' I breath.'Then tell me a lie.'I don't love you,' I say. I sink beneath the weight of it all.Isaac stirs behind me, and then he is leaning over me, his elbows on either side of my head.'The truth is for the mind,' he says. 'Lies are for the heart. So let's just keep lying.","author":"Tarryn Fisher","tags":["drama","mud-vein","romance","slice-of-life","tarryn-fisher"],"id":20393,"author_id":"Tarryn+Fisher"},{"text":"Don't Believe Everything You Think!","author":"Robert Fulghum","tags":["humor","inspirational","slice-of-life","spiritual-growth"],"id":29557,"author_id":"Robert+Fulghum"},{"text":"Sometimes I wished I could cut away old memories and let the wind take them. If a sharp knife could pare away the weakness of those days, I would slice until nothing but the hard lessons remained.","author":"Mark Lawrence","tags":["knife","memories","slice-of-life","the-broken-empire","weakness"],"id":36303,"author_id":"Mark+Lawrence"},{"text":"The ox was bad enough, Mina thought as she checked out the damage to her vegetables, yet now I have goats to torment me. However, if the goru was like the king, then the goats must be like the political parties, so maybe in the end her life won’t be so different after all? Yet she had to make sure that it would be different this time somehow, at least for Sidip’s sake, if for no other reason.","author":"Andrew James Pritchard","tags":["determination","personal-struggle","pollitics","slice-of-life"],"id":49738,"author_id":"Andrew+James+Pritchard"},{"text":"As a rule, she didn’t like boys very much, but she had to admit, Charlie was actually pretty nice.","author":"Sarah Weeks","tags":["boy-and-girl","friends","friendship","kidlit","middle-grade","middlegrade","nice-guys","slice-of-life","small-town"],"id":54415,"author_id":"Sarah+Weeks"},{"text":"Alice wondered if her mother was aware that she wasn’t the only one in town who’d come down with a bad case of Blueberry Fever.","author":"Sarah Weeks","tags":["competition","cooking","food","kidlit","middle-grade","middlegrade","mothers-and-daughters","slice-of-life","small-town"],"id":205900,"author_id":"Sarah+Weeks"},{"text":"That was the moment when Alice knew for sure that she and Charlie Erdling would be friends for the rest of their lives.","author":"Sarah Weeks","tags":["boy-and-girl","friend-zone","friends","friendship","kidlit","middle-grade","middlegrade","slice-of-life","small-town-america"],"id":206834,"author_id":"Sarah+Weeks"},{"text":"I'd rather teach you how to make BREAD than give you a SLICE from my BREAD.","author":"Genereux Philip","tags":["bread","facts-of-life","humble","humble-yourself","humour","hustle","hustle-and-bustle","hustlers-ambition","inspiration","lesson","life","love","of-all-times","of-the-day","saying","slice-of-life","street","teach","teaching","work","working"],"id":248321,"author_id":"Genereux+Philip"},{"text":"Would any of you like to share your career aspirations within the class? Jim?I dunno, to be honest, I was just hoping to be able to keep the demons away...","author":"Jillian Tamaki","tags":["career","demons","existential","fictional","graphic-novel","humor","slice-of-life"],"id":313631,"author_id":"Jillian+Tamaki"},{"text":"That's why writers write—to say things loudly with ink. To give feet to thoughts; to make quiet, still feelings loudly heard.","author":"Tarryn Fisher","tags":["drama","mud-vein","romance","slice-of-life","tarryn-fisher"],"id":370638,"author_id":"Tarryn+Fisher"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":14,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}