{"author":"Dermot Davis","author_id":"Dermot+Davis","total_quotes":12,"quotes":[{"text":"Women are attracted to bad boys not because they want to fall in love… we just want to ride on the backs of their motor bikes.","author":"Dermot Davis","tags":["bad-boys","dating","relationships","romance"],"id":28156,"author_id":"Dermot+Davis"},{"text":"Guys get a bad rap for not wanting to talk about their feelings but maybe women are in part to blame for that. One thing that I learned from working with people where English was not their first language was this: just because they don’t speak your language doesn’t mean that they’re dumb. Maybe we just need to talk more slowly, use simpler words and have lots more patience.","author":"Dermot Davis","tags":["communication","dating","love","relationships","romance"],"id":45256,"author_id":"Dermot+Davis"},{"text":"What is a life lived without passion? He asked himself. And what is passion, but a yearning of the soul for recognition and self-expression? The beauty within seeks beauty without.","author":"Dermot Davis","tags":["dreaming","dreams","passion","soul"],"id":57053,"author_id":"Dermot+Davis"},{"text":"Someone once said that nostalgia is longing for a place you’d never go back to and thinking about it… that’s pretty much how I’m feeling about my ex-husband: longing for someone I’d never go back to.","author":"Dermot Davis","tags":["dating","ex-husband","love","relationship"],"id":72356,"author_id":"Dermot+Davis"},{"text":"People don’t read to enlighten themselves or seek to gain some valuable insight into their own psychology. People read to escape.","author":"Dermot Davis","tags":["literature","readers","writing"],"id":176192,"author_id":"Dermot+Davis"},{"text":"Maybe the Buddha was right: pain and suffering are the only true constants in life.","author":"Dermot Davis","tags":["dating","love","relationship","zen"],"id":222057,"author_id":"Dermot+Davis"},{"text":"Romantic love has its place but to define relationship solely in romantic terms is like describing marriage only by what a couple does on their honeymoon.","author":"Dermot Davis","tags":["dating","humor","humorous","marriage","relationship","romantic-love"],"id":229184,"author_id":"Dermot+Davis"},{"text":"Could the entire notion of finding one’s soul mate be a simple case of looking for ourselves in another body? Is the “soul mate” really just the best approximation of ourselves that we can find?","author":"Dermot Davis","tags":["conscious-relationship","dating","humor","humorous","love","relationship","soul-mates"],"id":240124,"author_id":"Dermot+Davis"},{"text":"It started with feelings of jealousy and like a mental virus it spread.","author":"Dermot Davis","tags":["fidelity","jealous-hero","jealousy","marriage","obsession","psychological-thriller","suspense"],"id":438331,"author_id":"Dermot+Davis"},{"text":"Crazy people love their Kindles.","author":"Dermot Davis","tags":["ebooks","kindle","readers"],"id":453804,"author_id":"Dermot+Davis"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":12,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}