{"quotes":[{"text":"As a teen, I heard the second Velvet Underground album, 'White Light/White Heat,' and it was too much for my limited scope of appreciation. It was intense, but I didn't get it.","author":"Henry Rollins","tags":["appreciation","heat","velvet "],"id":3342,"author_id":"Henry+Rollins"},{"text":"His name was Theo.","author":"Cinda Williams Chima","tags":["death","han","loss","magret","name","ragger","theo","velvet"],"id":94939,"author_id":"Cinda+Williams+Chima"},{"text":"I saw pearls in her mouth and the velvet cushion of her tongue and I heard the magic words come out of her.","author":"Glenda Millard","tags":["magic","mouth","pearls","tongue","velvet","words"],"id":128504,"author_id":"Glenda+Millard"},{"text":"A silent velvet footstep filled me, unwelcome yet so needed. You finally found my hidden shore with grains of time and ocean of the most secret secrets, violet and red; left a trail of deep blue footsteps on my glowing beach of soul, and no matter how many times tides wash the golden sand anew, your prints can never be erased. Each one a shining star in my quiet Universe...","author":"Oksana Rus","tags":["art","artist","beach","blue","deep-blue","erase","escape","face","finally","footstep","found","galaxy","glow","glowing","god","golden","grain","groove","healing","hidden","hide","lagoon","left","message","mystery","need","ocean","oksana-rus","path","poem","print","red","road","sea","secret","shining","shore","silence","silent","sky","soul","spirit","spiritual","spirituality","star","stars","story","time","trail","universe","velvet","violet","walk","welcome"],"id":142759,"author_id":"Oksana+Rus"},{"text":"'Bombay Velvet' is my most romantic film, it's my 'Titanic' or 'Gone With The Wind.'.","author":"Ranbir Kapoor","tags":["wind","velvet","gone "],"id":158463,"author_id":"Ranbir+Kapoor"},{"text":"The sky was a sparkling succession of black diamonds on black velvet made crystal clear by the blackout.","author":"Sara Sheridan","tags":["blackout","diamonds","sky","stars","velvet","wartime"],"id":190146,"author_id":"Sara+Sheridan"},{"text":"He buried his hands in the rich velvet of her hair. “I thought I’d die for wanting you.","author":"Teresa Medeiros","tags":["heather","prudence","romance","sebastian","teresa-medeiros","velvet"],"id":248581,"author_id":"Teresa+Medeiros"},{"text":"The night was so balmy that breathing ceased to be a habitual sensation, becoming much closer to something like the gaseous ingestion of a mango, the velvet caress of a hand or the soft skin of a fresh peach. Sleeping, lying down or sitting up, was, on that night, a divine human penitence, a miracle unexpected and unrealized, intuitive and peaceful in a unique opportunity.","author":"Ondjaki","tags":["african-","atmosphere","balmy","dreaming","heavy","night","sleeping","thick","velvet"],"id":342526,"author_id":"Ondjaki"},{"text":"A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.","author":"Napoleon Bonaparte","tags":["velvet","bench","throne "],"id":364299,"author_id":"Napoleon+Bonaparte"},{"text":"But there were certain early days in Casterbridge- days of firmamental exhaustion which followed angry south-westerly tempests-when, if the sun shone, the air was like velvet.","author":"Thomas Hardy","tags":["exhaustion","spring","springtime","sun","tempest","velvet","weather"],"id":373049,"author_id":"Thomas+Hardy"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":15,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}