{"quotes":[{"text":"This was worse than a coke binge. Worse than black tar or the thrill of E. This was the devil himself snaking his way inside of my heart and bending me to his will. This was addiction, quickly morphing into obsession. And somewhere in the clouded fog that was my brain, I knew this was a game I was going to lose.","author":"A. Zavarelli","tags":["addiction","dark","love","obsession","twisted"],"id":1077,"author_id":"A.+Zavarelli"},{"text":"Bah-Bah-black sheep, have you any soul?No sir, by the way, what the hell are morals?","author":"Set it off","tags":["bands","dark","humor","lyrics","twisted"],"id":27347,"author_id":"Set+it+off"},{"text":"The nobles had made reading unpopular, as it showed that one couldn’t afford to buy spells or magical devices, since one had to get knowledge to do things the ordinary way; even if this view held little logic, the king himself was known to insult readers as “bookfaces” or “unable to think for themselves, so they need to spout what others have said,” and these opinions became popular, as did most views expressed by the king or his son.","author":"Colleen Chen","tags":["bookish","books","dictator","intelligence","learning","logic","monarchy","nerds","nerdy","popularity","propaganda","reading","thinking","twisted"],"id":31573,"author_id":"Colleen+Chen"},{"text":"…and available man candy. But at least there would be mud, and maybe cows.” p12.","author":"Claire Upton","tags":["cows","fate","love","twisted"],"id":35869,"author_id":"Claire+Upton"},{"text":"The world around me and my past seem far away and distorted, as if time and space were taffy being stretched and looped and twisted out of shape.","author":"Daniel Keyes","tags":["distorted","far-away","past","shape","space","time","twisted"],"id":88663,"author_id":"Daniel+Keyes"},{"text":"A daughter of God knows that insecurity is not an excuse for doing evil to others, nor will God rest until caring for everyone is a lesson you learn.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["brainwashed","compassionate-women","control-freaks","controlling-spouses","copouts","criminal","cruel","empowering-women","evilness","growth","hateful","illegal","immature","insecurities","liar","manipulatora","mentally-biased","relationships-101","self-righteous","stereotypers","twisted","uncaring","unjustified","writers"],"id":95684,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Secrets are dangerous.” Gottfried Baumauer.","author":"Carla H. Krueger","tags":["adult-fiction","anti-utopia","bad-manager","carla-krueger","comedy","contemporary","dark","humor","humour","office-politics","office-worker","orwell","poison","psychological","quick-read","short-book","short-story","subversive","twisted"],"id":114365,"author_id":"Carla+H.+Krueger"},{"text":"Every time I so much as blink you get an erection.","author":"Carla H. Krueger","tags":["adult-fiction","anti-utopia","bad-manager","carla-krueger","comedy","contemporary","dark","humor","humour","office-politics","office-worker","orwell","poison","psychological","quick-read","short-book","short-story","subversive","twisted"],"id":126366,"author_id":"Carla+H.+Krueger"},{"text":"...Life had handed me a different set of cards and I was going to have to play my hand either way.","author":"Brittany Hawes","tags":["book","book","books","brittany-hawes","fiction","inspirational","life","life-lessons","life-philosophy","life","science","science-fiction","trials","trials-of-life","twisted","ya","young-adult"],"id":134322,"author_id":"Brittany+Hawes"},{"text":"I feel like I've always had a sordid sense of humor, and it's only gotten more twisted as I've gotten older.","author":"Tituss Burgess","tags":["sense of humor","twisted "],"id":139950,"author_id":"Tituss+Burgess"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":52,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}