{"quotes":[{"text":"Split in two,” he sang, “Loved by one, and then another. Pulled in a direction and then the other. If I could breathe you in, all of you, every day of my life, it wouldn’t be enough. My heart was captive long ago — then you stole it away, you helped me grow. Now I’m staring at my crossroads with a choice to make, wondering how in the world I even thought there was one way to take.” His hands flew over the piano, muscles tightened in his forearms as he leaned forward and continued singing. “My biggest fear, is not the ending of this life, but going through it without you by my side.” He repeated the chorus and closed his eyes, humming the haunting melody in such a way that I felt hypnotized. “Letting her go will be the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do — but I’m doing it so I can say goodbye to her — and good morning to you. Tell me it’s not too late to ask for a second.” He smirked but continued singing. “Third, fourth, tenth date.” His hands slowed. “Loving you will always be easy because when I look into your eyes I know you see the real me, so be my love, be my rain, be my clouds, be my pain.” “My biggest fear, is not the ending of this life, but going through it without you by my side.” He stopped playing. The room fell silent.","author":"Rachel Van Dyken","tags":["beautiful","both","choices","song","take-away","you-by-my-side"],"id":6101,"author_id":"Rachel+Van+Dyken"},{"text":"We are, at least in part, who we remember ourselves to be. Take away our memories, and you take away our selves.","author":"Beth Revis","tags":["memories","ourselves","part-of-me","remember","self","steal","take-away"],"id":60629,"author_id":"Beth+Revis"},{"text":"What does greed mean? Greed means taking away what belongs to others.","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["greed","sharing","spiritual","spiritual","take-away"],"id":196190,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"If I could take away his pain… If there was a way to transfer it from his soul onto mine. I would take it. Without hesitation I would take it all. Maybe that’s how you know you love someone. When you actually feel each tear they cry as if they were your own. When you feel each cut, each bruise, each hit as if you’re the one suffering. I bled for him.\u0026 in turn, he bled for her.Funny, how life comes full circle.","author":"Rachel Van Dyken","tags":["bleed","bruise","full-circle","his-pain","hope","scars","take-away","tragedy"],"id":288754,"author_id":"Rachel+Van+Dyken"},{"text":"She stretched her hands towards the sky. To grab all the stars, to hold the moon, to take away everything that the sky had. So that the sky could finally understand, how it feels to lose everything that makes it beautiful.","author":"Akshay Vasu","tags":["beautiful","grab","hands","lose","moon","realize","sky","stars","stretch","take-away"],"id":299804,"author_id":"Akshay+Vasu"},{"text":"It takes time, or does time take it?","author":"Anthony Liccione","tags":["empty","essential","existence","fast","gone","importance","it","life","living","material","needs-and-wants","overlooking","possession","priorities","purposes","reasons","regrets","something","steal","take-away","time","time-at-hand","too-late","vanish"],"id":422931,"author_id":"Anthony+Liccione"},{"text":"We are nothing without them, our scars and our blemishes. Take away our delusional smiles if you must, snatch away our illusory happiness if you must, but please leave us our flaws for we do not wish to exist without them.","author":"Shruti Upadhaya","tags":["blemish","blemishes","delusion","exist","sad","smile","snatch","take-away","whitenoise","without"],"id":455598,"author_id":"Shruti+Upadhaya"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":7,"pages":1}}