{"quotes":[{"text":"No matter how bad you feel, God never sees you as a hopeless person. He may see you as a sinner who needs to be re-washed to get back to his old vision for His purpose, but He will never see you as a hopeless being.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["bad","bad-feeling","cleanse","feel","feel-bad","feel-bad-about-themselves","food-for-thought","forgive","hope","hopeful","hopeless","israelmore-ayivor","low-self-esteem","low-self-image","old","purpose","reckless","repent","repentance","salvation","sin","sinner","vision","wash"],"id":2968,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"See, I know how they do. White folks like to stay in those books. They carry and they keep and they dig in their books, like nothing matters that don’t get written in some book somewhere. Like that’s the only way they can know for sure what happened. They’ll write down who they are and what they did. And their daddies and theirs too. Put it all in a book, then close it up and put it on the shelf. Just to know it’s there so they can sleep at night. Like if they don’t get written down somewhere and they shut their eyes for a minute, they might disappear.","author":"Margaret Wrinkle","tags":["historical-fiction","wash"],"id":21270,"author_id":"Margaret+Wrinkle"},{"text":"Rain may cleanse the Earth, but it doesn't wash away our tears.","author":"Anthony T. Hincks","tags":["cleanse","earth","may","philosophy","rain","raining","tears","the-earth","wash","wash-away","water"],"id":50230,"author_id":"Anthony+T.+Hincks"},{"text":"I pulled the sheet off their faces. Their faces were black with coal dust and didn't look like anything was wrong with them except they were dirty. The both of them had smiles on their faces. I thought maybe one of them had told a joke just before they died and, pain and all, they both laughed and ended up with a smile. Probably not true but but it made me feel good to think about it like that, and when the Sister came in I asked her if I could clean their faces and she said, 'no, certainly not!' but I said, 'ah, c'mon, it's me brother n' father, I want to,' and she looked at me and looked at me, and at last she said, 'of course, of course, I'll get some soap and water.'When the nun came back she helped me. Not doing it, but more like showing me how, and taking to me, saying things like 'this is a very handsome man' and 'you must have been proud of your brother' when I told her how Charlie Dave would fight for me, and 'you're lucky you have another brother'; of course I was, but he was younger and might change, but she talked to me and made it all seem normal, the two of us standing over a dead face and cleaning the grit away. The only other thing I remember a nun ever saying to me was, 'Mairead, you get to your seat, this minute!","author":"Sheldon Currie","tags":["accident","black","brother","canada","cape-breton","coal","coal-mine","death","depression","disaster","dusty","face","father","fear","friendship","grief","grit","hospital","joke","lonely","loss","lost","mine","mourning","nova-scotia","nun","religion","rock","sadness","smile","soul","teenage","wash"],"id":61726,"author_id":"Sheldon+Currie"},{"text":"Trying to educate the dumb with a dumb teacher is nothing but washing the dirty clothes in a dirty water!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["clothes","dirty-water","dumb","educate","teacher","wash","washing","water"],"id":127679,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"},{"text":"And he who would not languish among men, must learn to drink out of all glasses; and he who would keep clean among men, must know how to wash himself even with dirty water.","author":"Friedrich Nietzsche","tags":["clean","dirty","thus-spoke-zarathustra","wash","water"],"id":154435,"author_id":"Friedrich+Nietzsche"},{"text":"Tragedy cleans the windows of the soul by washing away the bias of our lives in the detergent of pain.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["angst","bias","clarity","clean","cleaning","cleans","clear","clearer","detergent","difficulty","pain","prejudice","restore","sight","soul","struggle","tragedy","tragic","vision","wash","washes","washing","windows"],"id":197300,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Your eyes are like heavy rain falling from pregnant clouds. With one glance, you washed awaythe poems I chalked on the groundand drowned all my beliefs.Now, I only scribble your name and believe in your truth. I know nothing but you.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["belief","believe","chalk","clouds","eyes","falling-in-love","ground","in-love","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","love","love-poem","love-poet","lover","loving","me-and-you","name","partner","poem","poet","poetry","quote","rain","relationship","romance","romantic","scribble","soulmate","together","truth","wash","you-and-i","you-and-me"],"id":211028,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"For all these stars,nothing is new.They’ve seen all kinds of warsand miracles, too.They know the messengers with their holy bookswill smile and wash their hands in blood.They know the politicians with their good lookswill make the poor eat pies of mud.They’ve seen the Earth freeze and then burn with greed.They’ve seen the treesand the seas emptied.Yet, you won’t hear their sneerswhen a man arrivesand, having experienced a number of years,proclaims: 'I have lived!'Because nothing is new under these stars:the lies, the love, the memories and scars, the ruin, the revolution, the fakes and true,the families, the friends, none of it is new.All of it—even the me and you.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["blood","burn","change","earth","experience","fakes","freeze","good-looks","greed","hands","holy","holy-book","hope","i-want-change","interesting","issue","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","lies","life","lived","lives","me-and-you","memories","memory","messenger","miracle","mud","mud-pies","new","nothing","poem","poetry","politicians","poor","poverty","problem","proclaims","quote","religion","religious","revolution","ruin","scar","scars","seas","smile","sneers","society","stars","trees","true","war","wars","wash","wisdom","wise","world","years"],"id":291439,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"To live for the hope of something isn’t really living at all, and so, like a child putting away its toys and picking up a tool, he marched to Lyca’s bathroom, to shower off the stench of failure, soap up the death of hope, then wash away the ashes of his love for Daphne.","author":"Mark A. Rayner","tags":["ash","ashes","child","crush","death","fail","failure","hope","hopeless","hopelessness","hopes","live","live-life","living","living-life","love","lovers","lust","luv","puppy-love","shower","showers","stench","tool","tools","toy","toys","wash","wash-away"],"id":293504,"author_id":"Mark+A.+Rayner"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":15,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}