{"quotes":[{"text":"Sometimes your dearest friend whom you reveal most of your secrets to becomes so deadly and unfriendly without knowing that they were not really your friend.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["back-stabbing","backbiting","bad-friends","bad-people","behind","betrayal","confidant","deadly","dearest","disloyalty","distrust","double-dealing","fake-friends","falseness","fickleness","friend","friends","friendship","fuck-up","hurt","infidelity","suspicion","two-timing","unfaithfulness","unfriendliness","wolves"],"id":15621,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"In that day an educated rich man was acceptable. He might send his sons to college without comment, might wear a vest and white shirt and tie in the daytime of a weekday, might wear gloves and keep his nails clean. And since the lives and practices of rich men were mysterious, who knows what they could use or not use? But a poor man––what need had he for poetry or for painting or for music not fit for singing or dancing?","author":"John Steinbeck","tags":["gossip","rich-vs-poor","suspicion"],"id":17843,"author_id":"John+Steinbeck"},{"text":"I was thinking that being a demon and a ghost must be very difficult, even for Charles; if he ever forgot, or let his disguise drop for a minute, he would be recognized at once and driven away; he must be extremely careful to use the same voice every time, and present the same face and the same manner without a slip; he must be constantly on guard against betraying himself. I wondered if he would turn back to his true self when he was dead.","author":"Shirley Jackson","tags":["demons","foreboding","gothic","magic","pretense","suspicion"],"id":20786,"author_id":"Shirley+Jackson"},{"text":"When the brain becomes too tired, the mind stops decrypting the perceptions in our mental world and surrenders willingly to the unguarded moments of life.For some time, the safeguards of our thinking pattern weaken and discontinue the decoding of the chips of daily reality.The mind picks the instants which are above suspicion, pure and innocent. ('Uber alle Gipfeln ist Ruh' ).","author":"Erik Pevernagie","tags":["brain","chip","daily","decoding","decrypting","discontinue","innocent","instant","life","mental","mind","moment","pattern","perceptions","pick","pure","reality","safeguards","surrender","suspicion","thinking","time","tired","unguarded","weaken","willingly","world"],"id":26041,"author_id":"Erik+Pevernagie"},{"text":"She has done for me at last, Rachel my torment.","author":"Daphne du Maurier","tags":["obsession","suspense","suspicion"],"id":56010,"author_id":"Daphne+du+Maurier"},{"text":"I did not know then what Brother William was seeking, and to tell the truth, I still do not know today, and I presume he himself did not know, moved as he was solely by the desire for truth, and by the suspicion - which I could see he always harbored - that the truth was not what was appearing to him at any given moment.","author":"Umberto Eco","tags":["seeking","suspicion","truth"],"id":64528,"author_id":"Umberto+Eco"},{"text":"I have a sneaking suspicion that if there were a way to make movies without actors, George Lucas would do it.","author":"Mark Hamill","tags":["way","without","suspicion "],"id":72554,"author_id":"Mark+Hamill"},{"text":"To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken.","author":"Dark Jar Tin Zoo","tags":["broken","deceit","deception","denial","deny","funny","honest","honesty","humor","illogical","illusion","lie","lie-detector","lies","life","love","machine","relationships","suspicion","women","word-junkies"],"id":80343,"author_id":"Dark+Jar+Tin+Zoo"},{"text":"A bachelor always feels himself defrauded, when he knows or suspects that any woman of his acquaintance has given herself away.","author":"Nathaniel Hawthorne","tags":["bachelor","defraud","suspicion","woman"],"id":104177,"author_id":"Nathaniel+Hawthorne"},{"text":"Did you ever get the feeling that everything was too perfect? Like the moment was so good that something had to be wrong? Kind of like the way a fish sees that bright, shiny lure just before it chomps down and gets hauled out of water to become someone's lunch.","author":"Neal Shusterman","tags":["fish","metaphor","perfect","perfectionism","simile","suspicion","suspicious"],"id":119008,"author_id":"Neal+Shusterman"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":55,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}