{"quotes":[{"text":"I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["acceptance","antagonist","anti-hero","antihero","art","artist","bad","bad-guy","discernment","judgment","misunderstood","painting","perception","perspective","understanding","villain"],"id":213,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"I am so tired of this gothic crap,” I muttered. “Just once, I want to meet the villain in a cheerful, brightly lit room. Possibly one with kittens.","author":"Seanan McGuire","tags":["an-artificial-night","cliche","funny","gothic","humor","kittens","october-daye","sarcasm","seanan-mcguire","toby-daye","villain"],"id":4475,"author_id":"Seanan+McGuire"},{"text":"I should feel energized and powerful, invulnerable and potent, but all I feel is lost.","author":"Kelly Thompson","tags":["energy","invulnerability","kelly-thompson","lola","lost","potency","power","sorrow","the-girl-who-would-be-king","villain"],"id":4686,"author_id":"Kelly+Thompson"},{"text":"As a kid my heart would break for the villains.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["child","compassion","empathy","funny","heart","heartbreak","heartbroken","hero","humor","pity","sympathy","villain"],"id":5847,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.","author":"Ian Fleming","tags":["changing","hero","heroes","history","uncertainty","villain","villains"],"id":24053,"author_id":"Ian+Fleming"},{"text":"Innocent? Tell me human, who among you is innocent? Who among you has not destroyed without need or hurt without pity? Should a lion ponder his role in thinning the herds? Does he question whether or not he is doing the right thing as he tears into a zebra’s flesh?” he snarled. His next words were slow and measured, and more to himself than to Natalya. “No….He knows only that he has teeth and claws….And an insatiable lust for blood.","author":"Jessica Majzner","tags":["vampire","villain","werewolf","wise","wise-words"],"id":39876,"author_id":"Jessica+Majzner"},{"text":"Letting go seems like the most powerful thing I could do.And so I do.I just let it all go.And it feels glorious.","author":"Kelly Thompson","tags":["death","dying","failure","glory","kelly-thompson","letting-go","lola","power","the-girl-who-would-be-king","villain"],"id":47563,"author_id":"Kelly+Thompson"},{"text":"VILLAIN.By Omrane Khuder.Staggering, tripping, stumbling down the tightrope,hastening to be set free.Yearning to be protected by the Superhero,before the Villain’s revulsion ingests me.Misplacing my footing on the tightrope,hands sweltering as the rope is pulled away.Glancing down at the fire below me,the chuckling Villain has won today.Little did I know, it was He setting me free.Little did I know, the tightrope was me.","author":"Omrane Khuder","tags":["darkness","death","depression","freedom","poetry","suicide","superheroes","tightrope","villain"],"id":52072,"author_id":"Omrane+Khuder"},{"text":"She looked at him, his black, depthless eyes like boiling wells of oil.","author":"R.J. Lawrence","tags":["eye","eye-contact","eyes","eyes","intimate","intimidating","scary","villain","villains"],"id":58702,"author_id":"R.J.+Lawrence"},{"text":"But through years of myth-making and fear-sowing, Christianity meta-morphosed antichrists into a single Antichrist, an apocalyptic villain and Christian bogeyman used to scare people as much as Santa Claus is used to regulate children's behavior. After years of studying the concept, I began to realize the Antichrist is a character--a metaphor--who exists in nearly all religions under different names, and maybe there is some truth in it, a need for such a person. But from another perspective, this person could be seen as not a villain but a final hero to save people from their own ignorance. The apocalypse doesn't have to be fire and a brimstone. It could happen on a personal level.","author":"Marilyn Manson","tags":["antichrist","apocalypse","different-perspective","fear","ignorance","marilyn-manson","philosophy","regulation","religion","religions","villain"],"id":59518,"author_id":"Marilyn+Manson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":71,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}