{"quotes":[{"text":"Alecto, have you noticed how downhill this little island is becoming?” Mandy questioned sadly. “All these organic food stores and yoga studios and cellular phone towers… Cape Breton was one of the only places left where it still had that nostalgic small town atmosphere but now… I’ve only been away for a year, how could things have changed so quickly? I mean, how can the world accept it?”“C'est la vie,” said Alecto, looking extremely tired as he stared out the window at the late November maple keys fluttering down from vibrantly red trees lining the streets on either side of the windshield.","author":"Rebecca McNutt","tags":["canada","cape-breton","car","cell-phone","change","digital","drive","environmental","life","modernity","nostalgia","nova-scotia","organic","street","technology","tower","windshield","yoga"],"id":29417,"author_id":"Rebecca+McNutt"},{"text":"Do you believe in an afterlife?' the gunslinger asked him as Brown dropped three ears of hot corn onto his plate.Brown nodded. 'I think this is it.","author":"Stephen King","tags":["1","dark","deschain","gunslinger","king","roland","stephen","tower"],"id":59786,"author_id":"Stephen+King"},{"text":"Once upon a time in the land of Shinar, God came down to see the city and the tower. People were united and spoke in one language. Then God confound their language and caused them scattered all over the planet earth. I believe, because of our technology, there will be one computer-based language on earth. Then God will come back again and make us all scattered all over the stars constellation.","author":"Toba Beta","tags":["babel","earth","god","history","life","man","mankind","star","technology","tower","truth"],"id":59843,"author_id":"Toba+Beta"},{"text":"It was darker in the tower than any place Devnee had ever been. The dark had textures, some velvet, some satin. The dark shifted positions.The dark continued to breathe. The breath of the tower lifted her clothing like the flaps of a tent, and sounded in her ears like falling snow.It's the wind coming through the double shutters, Devnee told herself.But how could the wind come through? There were glass windows between the inside and outside shutters.Or were there?The windows weren't just holes in the wall, were they?What if there was no glass? What if things crawled through those open louvers, crept into the room, blew in with the cold that fingered her hair? What creatures of the night could slither through those slats?She had not realized how wonderful glass was, how it protected you and kept you inside.She knew something was out there.","author":"Caroline B. Cooney","tags":["dark","glass","scary","shutters","tower","vampire","windows"],"id":74151,"author_id":"Caroline+B.+Cooney"},{"text":"Inconvenience in progress, work is regretted.","author":"Aravind Adiga","tags":["adiga","aravind","funny","humor","humour","last","man","tower"],"id":86652,"author_id":"Aravind+Adiga"},{"text":"On all sides of us, spread out below, are little white lights and black pockets of trees. Stars in the sky, stars on the ground. It’s hard to tell where the sky ends and the earth begins. I hate to admit it, but it’s beautiful.","author":"Jennifer Niven","tags":["beautiful","sky","stars","tower"],"id":112052,"author_id":"Jennifer+Niven"},{"text":"The trap had a ghastly perfection.","author":"Stephen King","tags":["black","chambers","dark","deschain","gunslinger","jake","king","man","roland","stephen","tower","trap"],"id":160627,"author_id":"Stephen+King"},{"text":"No mountain of doom, Just foothills of Ferninand.Towers of fire and glory as far as one can see.","author":"Megan Frazer Blakemore","tags":["clue","fire","glory","mountain","riddle","tower"],"id":183077,"author_id":"Megan+Frazer+Blakemore"},{"text":"We need to take music out of the ivory tower - both for musicians and for the public. Otherwise, classical music will not survive the 21st century.","author":"Daniel Barenboim","tags":["musicians","survive","tower "],"id":253669,"author_id":"Daniel+Barenboim"},{"text":"Once again there was the desert, and that only.","author":"Stephen King","tags":["black","chambers","dark","deschain","desert","gunslinger","jake","king","man","roland","stephen","tower"],"id":286047,"author_id":"Stephen+King"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":21,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}