{"quotes":[{"text":"The world grows ever complex. More urban. Less peaceful.","author":"Fennel Hudson","tags":["peaceful","peaceful-life","rural","urban","world"],"id":2599,"author_id":"Fennel+Hudson"},{"text":"A civilization must be judged by its standards not by its expenditure.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri","civil","civilization","community","expenditure","human","humans","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","judge","judgement","money","motivation","motivational","motivational","philosophy","social","society","spending","spending-money","standard","standards","urban","urbanisation","wisdom","wisdom"],"id":14215,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"A grey-suited figure with badly-scuffed shoes was squatted over a woman’s body, obscuring her face and upper torso. A loose, white dress; torn, now mostly red. A pattern of rose petals, drenched in blood. One of her sandals was missing, scarlet streaks and spatters on her jade-green polished toenails and pale, slender ankles.\tAnother step took him around the hunched and twitching figure. It ignored him, intent on its work. Then its victim came fully into view … and he saw her ruined face.","author":"Scott Kaelen","tags":["apocalyptic","horror","urban","zombie"],"id":20531,"author_id":"Scott+Kaelen"},{"text":"You Can't Be A Hero To The World, If Your Aren't First A Hero In Your Home!","author":"Latif Mercado","tags":["books","freestyle","latif","latino","mercado","music","novels","urban","writer"],"id":21058,"author_id":"Latif+Mercado"},{"text":"She's got a big belt around her hips. It has a shiny buckle with PRADA on it, which is Italian for insecure.","author":"Jennifer Donnelly","tags":["historical-fiction","jennifer-donnelly","revolution","urban","young-adult-series"],"id":23115,"author_id":"Jennifer+Donnelly"},{"text":"To Me, The Best Part Of Success, Is The Journey!","author":"Latif Mercado","tags":["books","freestyle","latif","latino","mercado","music","novels","top","urban","writer"],"id":30715,"author_id":"Latif+Mercado"},{"text":"I Don't Waste My Time Doing Crosswords, As My Life Is The Only Puzzle I Care To Resolve!","author":"Latif Mercado","tags":["book","freestyle","la-entertainment","latif","latino","mercado","music","novel","urban","writer"],"id":35069,"author_id":"Latif+Mercado"},{"text":"Urbanism is the most advanced, concrete fulfillment of a nightmare. Littre defines nightmare as 'a state that ends when one awakens with a start after extreme anxiety.' But a start against whom? Who has stuffed us to the point of somnolence?","author":"Tom McDonough","tags":["156","city","situationist","urban","urbanism"],"id":46677,"author_id":"Tom+McDonough"},{"text":"Let's do it right. This is for the ages.","author":"I.M. Pei","tags":["ages","architect","architecture","buildings","city","i-m-pei","urban"],"id":57744,"author_id":"I.M.+Pei"},{"text":"The skyscrapers of the city had finished scraping all the sky away, and the clouds overhead were exactly the color of concrete and I was safe and cold in a canyon of glass and steel.","author":"Michael Montoure","tags":["pretty-prose","sky","skyscrapers","urban"],"id":58043,"author_id":"Michael+Montoure"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":80,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}