{"quotes":[{"text":"Life sometimes reminds us that it is sometimes heartless by giving something or someone we really need to someone who does not need or even want them or it.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","aphorism","aphorisms","appreciate","appreciation","axiom","axioms","bighearted","callous","caring","charitable","cold","cold-hearted","compassionate","considerate","cruel","death","deep","dictum","dictums","empathetic","epigram","epigrams","gnome","gnomes","hard-hearted","heartless","humane","humor","humour","inconsiderate","inhuman","insensitive","insightful","kind","lenient","life","life-partner","life-partners","love","lover","lovers","loving","made-me-think","make-you-think","maxim","maxims","mean-spirited","merciful","merciless","need","needs","pitiless","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","quotes","remind","reminder","satire","satirical","saying","sayings","sensitive","solicitous","stony-hearted","sympathetic","take-for-granted","thought-provoking","thoughtful","tolerant","uncaring","unconcerned","understanding","unfeeling","unkind","unsympathetic","want","wants","warm","waste"],"id":82793,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Have I been conditioned to believe that if I am not solicitous, if I am not forthcoming, if I am not a never-ending cornicopia of entertaining delights, they will take their collections of milk-bottle tops and their mangy one-eared teddy bears and go away into the woods by themselves to play snipers? Probably. What my mother things was merely cute may have been lethal.","author":"Margaret Atwood","tags":["conditioning","entertaining","mothering","mothers","mothers-and-daughters","solicitous","well-behaved-women"],"id":352666,"author_id":"Margaret+Atwood"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":2,"pages":1}}