{"quotes":[{"text":"It was heartfelt, it was heartbreaking. It was extreme joy, it was bone-crushing grief. It was fiery hot, it was icy-cold. It was true love sprouting... It was true love dying.It's like we were both trying to hold onto something that was slipping through our fingers, and we didn't understand why.","author":"S.C. Stephens","tags":["romance","teen-angst"],"id":10620,"author_id":"S.C.+Stephens"},{"text":"Words have power, and sometimes, they stay withyou for life. It’s up to you to allow those words to define who you become.","author":"Daniele Lanzarotta","tags":["alit","bullying","teen-and-young-adult","teen-angst","ya"],"id":16630,"author_id":"Daniele+Lanzarotta"},{"text":"Creativity is the catalyst to the future.","author":"Ann Marie Frohoff","tags":["alternative-rock","coming-of-age","music","music-lyrics","romance","teen","teen-angst","teenage-girl","teenage-love","young-adult","young-adult-fiction","young-adult-series","young-love"],"id":39054,"author_id":"Ann+Marie+Frohoff"},{"text":"With adolescent Nietzscheanism, she already planned to escape on the world's reversals from the sense of suffocation that seemed to her to be eclipsing her family, her sisters, and mother. She, she told herself, would move brightly along high places and stop to trespass and admire, and if the fine was a heavy one—well, there was no good in saving up beforehand to pay it. Full of these presumptuous resolves, she promised herself that if, in the future, her soul should come starving and crying for bread it should eat the stone she might have to offer without complaint or remorse. Relentlessly she convinced herself that the only thing of any significance was to take what she wanted when she could. She did her best.","author":"Zelda Fitzgerald","tags":["determination","teen-angst"],"id":59814,"author_id":"Zelda+Fitzgerald"},{"text":"I was born into chaos. I didn’t know what peace felt like.","author":"Shannon A. Thompson","tags":["born","born-to-die","chaos","chaotic","chaotic-universe","confusion","fantasy","inner-peace","peace","questions","teen-angst","teenagers","teens","tortured-soul","unhappiness","wild"],"id":76613,"author_id":"Shannon+A.+Thompson"},{"text":"I had choosen the path of the black sheep rather than that of the unicorns and puppies.","author":"Magenta Periwinkle","tags":["abnormal","cutting-class","goth","popular-kids","punk","teen","teen-angst","teenagers","weirdo"],"id":134383,"author_id":"Magenta+Periwinkle"},{"text":"She smells like spring and flowers and rain, even though it’s winter. Sometimes, he thinks he loves her so much that his mind is unable to distinguish between love and obsession. Which is worse?","author":"Christy A. Campbell","tags":["conflict","depression","fantasy-fiction","fantasy-romance","fantasy-young-adult","ghosts","love","mystery-romance","mystery-suspense","romance","romance-novels","suspense","teen","teen-angst","teen-fiction","teen-romance","teenage-love","young-adult","young-adult-fantasy","young-adult-fiction","young-adult-novels","young-adult-paranormal","young-adult-romance"],"id":140860,"author_id":"Christy+A.+Campbell"},{"text":"Girls are always saying things like, “I’m so unhappy that I’m going to overdose on aspirin,” but they’d be awfully surprised if they succeeded. They have no intention of dying. At the first sight of blood, they panic.","author":"Rachel Klein","tags":["adolescence","death","depression","diary-entry","dying","journal","panic","rachel-klein","sad-girl","self-harm","suicide","teen-angst","the-moth-diaries","unhappy"],"id":141796,"author_id":"Rachel+Klein"},{"text":"Winter was nothing but a season of snow; spring, allergies; and summer...It was the worst. That was swimsuit season.","author":"Teresa Lo","tags":["body-image","seasons","spring","summer","swimsuit","teen","teen-angst","winter"],"id":166073,"author_id":"Teresa+Lo"},{"text":"We do not want to be told what we know. We do not want to call things by their names, although we're willing to call one another bad ones. We call meanness nobility and hatred honor. The way to make yourself a hero is to make me out a scoundrel. You won't admit that either, but it's true.","author":"Thomas Wolfe","tags":["coming-of-age","depression","hypocrisy","isolation-loneliness","teen-angst"],"id":180659,"author_id":"Thomas+Wolfe"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":20,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}