{"quotes":[{"text":"A terrified-looking bystander, a nerdy man in a sweater, calls the police and stammers into the phone: 'A huge group of people are fighting and there's pepper spray and superheroes and I don't know.","author":"Jon Ronson","tags":["humorous","phoenix-jones","superheroes"],"id":3134,"author_id":"Jon+Ronson"},{"text":"You will need to verify your identity with a sacrifice.'Didn't you ever hear of retina scans? Maybe fingerprints? Something less invasive?","author":"J.T. Bock","tags":["paranormal-romance","superheroes","supernatural","tags-humor"],"id":9925,"author_id":"J.T.+Bock"},{"text":"He no longer grasped to a strong sense of self. To him life felt more like a dream, a cascade of cause and effect that was completely up for grabs-and he was no longer separate from any of it. Because of that, he could do amazing things.","author":"James Connor","tags":["buddhism","meditation","superheroes","yoga","yoga-sutra"],"id":17030,"author_id":"James+Connor"},{"text":"One way or another we’re taking your bank. All you have to do is decide the level of persuasion we need to apply.","author":"David Louden","tags":["batman","black-widow","crime","heist","hollywood-boulevard","spider-man","superheroes","superman","the-incredible-hulk"],"id":27731,"author_id":"David+Louden"},{"text":"He was a squirrel. Could he be a superhero, too?","author":"Kate DiCamillo","tags":["animals","superheroes"],"id":36710,"author_id":"Kate+DiCamillo"},{"text":"I wondered: if I was so hell-bent on chaos, why would I adopt a military rank? Perhaps there was a part of me that needed rules, needed regulations and order.","author":"Steven Poore","tags":["chaos","evil-genius","humour","superheroes"],"id":42108,"author_id":"Steven+Poore"},{"text":"VILLAIN.By Omrane Khuder.Staggering, tripping, stumbling down the tightrope,hastening to be set free.Yearning to be protected by the Superhero,before the Villain’s revulsion ingests me.Misplacing my footing on the tightrope,hands sweltering as the rope is pulled away.Glancing down at the fire below me,the chuckling Villain has won today.Little did I know, it was He setting me free.Little did I know, the tightrope was me.","author":"Omrane Khuder","tags":["darkness","death","depression","freedom","poetry","suicide","superheroes","tightrope","villain"],"id":52072,"author_id":"Omrane+Khuder"},{"text":"Wonder Woman didn't begin in 1941 when William Moulton Marston turned in his first script to Sheldon Mayer. Wonder Woman began on a winter day in 1904 when Margaret Sanger dug Olive Byrne out of a snowbank.","author":"Jill Lepore","tags":["feminism","history","superheroes"],"id":53096,"author_id":"Jill+Lepore"},{"text":"When you say fair, Samantha,” said Mr Green through a peculiar smile, “do you mean one of those travelling fleets of vehicles that arrive and set up things like spinning Waltzers and Big Wheels and all manner of machines that whizz people around in circles and up and down and from side to side? Machines that could...” Mr Green turned away and his unnatural smile became even more unsettling... “easily go wrong!","author":"Mark Gorton","tags":["bumbling-boy","fantasy","humourous","middle-grade","superheroes"],"id":53920,"author_id":"Mark+Gorton"},{"text":"You have to come downstairs now!' panted Alice.'What's wrong?'Everything! Izzy's floating, Melanie ran into the wall, my hand made a silver ball and Colleen smashed my keys though the wall!' Alice huffed.'Wait, what? Slow down, I didn't catch a word you said,' said Jenn.'Come on!","author":"Katie Mattie","tags":["emergency","humorous","superheroes"],"id":62442,"author_id":"Katie+Mattie"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":69,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}