{"quotes":[{"text":"Happy to say you passed the sobriety test. Sad to say you failed the asshole test.","author":"Gena Showalter","tags":["asshole","attitude","sober","sobriety","test"],"id":3577,"author_id":"Gena+Showalter"},{"text":"Plato forbids children wine till eighteen years of age, and to get drunk till forty; but, after forty, gives them leave to please themselves, and to mix a little liberally in their feasts the influence of Dionysos, that good deity who restores to younger men their gaiety and to old men their youth...Fit to inspire old men with mettle to divert themselves in dancing and music; things of great use, and that they dare not attempt when sober.","author":"Michel de Montaigne","tags":["dancing","daring","dionysos","drinking","drunk","free-spirit","inspiration","laws","legal-age","old-age","plato","sober","wine","youth"],"id":34456,"author_id":"Michel+de+Montaigne"},{"text":"And when he got home he started on Mumma. He hated her then, because in her fatness and untidiness and drabness she reminded him of what he himself was when he was sober.","author":"Ruth Park","tags":["alcohol","drunk","family","hate","marriage","relationships","sober"],"id":44809,"author_id":"Ruth+Park"},{"text":"I couldn't have gotten sober without rehab because I needed the science.","author":"Rob Lowe","tags":["sober","without","rehab "],"id":63597,"author_id":"Rob+Lowe"},{"text":"Since the day I decided to become sober and a mother, I've been trying to become who I am supposed to be.","author":"Glennon Doyle Melton","tags":["become","mother","sober"],"id":123227,"author_id":"Glennon+Doyle+Melton"},{"text":"When love intoxicates your heart, it is difficult for your soul to remain sober.","author":"Matshona Dhliwayo","tags":["boyfriend-and-girlfriend","boyfriend","drunk","falling-in-love","girlfriend","heart","heart","heart","intoxicate","love","love","love","love-and-sayings","love-for-everybody","lovers","lovers","marriage","matshona-dhliwayo","relationship-advice-for-men","relationship-advice-for-women","relationship-advice","relationship-advice","relationship-advise","relationship-angst","relationship","sober","soul","wife"],"id":149550,"author_id":"Matshona+Dhliwayo"},{"text":"Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.","author":"H. G. Wells","tags":["wise","sorry","sober "],"id":151133,"author_id":"H.+G.+Wells"},{"text":"So they gave me love in form of poison and tiny little pills, programming my emotions, teaching me how to feel. To act correct and talk correct and answer without knowing the question, because that, my dear, is how you get love. Yes that, dear youth, is how you'll be loved. I tried to medicate my own fucked up little mind with chemicals and adrenaline, tasting sweeter every night, shaking louder every time. Sitting wide awake in bed until the world disappears, writing poetry to concentrate on something real while waiting for the love to arrive.I've been looking for it night after night, waiting patiently for it to show up, maybe somewhere in between the state of awake and asleep, alive and not so alive, sober and not so sober.(I lost track of the difference somewhere in between.).","author":"Charlotte Eriksson","tags":["drunk","finding-yourself","love","lucid-dreaming","night","pills","sober","solitude","youth"],"id":182927,"author_id":"Charlotte+Eriksson"},{"text":"You ask me why I don't speakNot a word at willBut write so much worth well over a mill'Well I value words like I value kissesA sober one, a closer one penetrates the heartDarling it's how it mends it.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["beautiful","beauty","hearts","kissing","love","lyrics","poem","poetry","prudence","rhyme","silence","sincerity","sober","speech","value","words","worth","writing"],"id":202118,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Please don't be overly sober with your precious wings, it's your addiction to freedom that makes me think that I too can defy gravity.","author":"Curtis Tyrone Jones","tags":["abundant-mindset","addiction","defying-expectation","defying-gravity","endurance","flight","fly","freedom","gifts","hope","inspirational","life","life-lessons","love","motivational","persistence","self-love","sober","wings","wisdom"],"id":221020,"author_id":"Curtis+Tyrone+Jones"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":22,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}