{"quotes":[{"text":"If you truly loved someone you won't become their enemy. You will become their guardian angel.","author":"Shannon L. 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Crush it. Destroy it. Let me wallow it until I feel hollow in it. I’ll bash in the pain. I’ll scream your name and then one day I suddenly won’t.","author":"Dominic Riccitello","tags":["emotions","feelings","hard-love","hurt","life","love","mad-love","quote","sad","tough-love","truth"],"id":127120,"author_id":"Dominic+Riccitello"},{"text":"When you meet a dark angel don't you ever for one minute believe they are bad because they have faced the worst demons and lived to guide you through yours. It really isn't an easy job they have been asked to do, but then neither was standing on the front line during the war in heaven.","author":"Shannon L. 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Alder","tags":["actions","advice","applied-lessons","applying","band-aids","better-than-prozac","blatant","brutal-truth","choices","cold-reality","consequences","downplaying","eggshells","faster-therapy","fighting-for-truth","freedom","gentleness","good-advice","group-therapy","half-truths","helping-one-anothers","honesty","humility","interventions","keeping-it-real","knowing","learned-lessons-from-others","learning","life-changing","life-coach","living-reality","openess","overcoming-ego","protective-family","protective-friends","realism","reality","right-as-rain","rules-work","say-it-like-it-is","self-respect","similar-paths","slapping-sense-into-loved-ones","staying-positive","stayingpositiveu-com","sugar-coated","swallowing-pride","teachers","tipping-points","tough-love","truth","turning-points","understanding","values","waking-up-friends","white-path","wisdom","your-not-alone"],"id":269516,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Sometimes, the people that love you the most turn out to be the people you will trust the least.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["caring","caring-too-much","family","friends","life-lessons","love","mom","mothers","tough-love","trust","trust-issues","valuable-lessons"],"id":281853,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Gotta love a woman that can hand you your own ass.","author":"Penelope Douglas","tags":["ass","challenge","tough-love"],"id":321081,"author_id":"Penelope+Douglas"},{"text":"Kaderin didn't believe, as a whole, the nymphs were more beautiful than the Valkyrie, but everything about them screamed, 'Easy lay! When you don't want to work for it!' And curiously, many males found that more appealing than the Valkyrie's 'Do it and die, simian'.","author":"Kresley Cole","tags":["beauty","tough-love"],"id":330440,"author_id":"Kresley+Cole"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":14,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}