{"author":"H.S. Crow","author_id":"H.S.+Crow","total_quotes":20,"quotes":[{"text":"We yearn for a stranger to poke around in our heart. Such an irrational thing it is. Flutter once and lunacy behold.","author":"H.S. Crow","tags":["crazy-love","humor","love","madness"],"id":46307,"author_id":"H.S.+Crow"},{"text":"Be terrified. Nothing in life is certain. It does not owe you anything, and if it decides to take something from you it will. You must accept this truth. Accept the dreadful possibility that your blind optimism is merely a fancied lie.","author":"H.S. Crow","tags":["blind-faith","falsehood","hardship","lies","life","optimism","terror","unfairness"],"id":47235,"author_id":"H.S.+Crow"},{"text":"Patience is all we have in a land where time is obsolete. I press on, armored stranger. I am not deceiving you. The willows have always grown silent in my wake. I see and feel your ailing mind and it worries me. The night that follows you grows stronger. You still have time to change.","author":"H.S. Crow","tags":["corruption","darkness","falling","hate","pain","patience","time"],"id":56086,"author_id":"H.S.+Crow"},{"text":"A violinist fiddled.With strings resined for winter.Summer's light splintered.","author":"H.S. Crow","tags":["change","haiku","haiku","haikus","nature","preparation","seasons-of-life","summer","violinist","winter"],"id":65265,"author_id":"H.S.+Crow"},{"text":"I will wait for you until the gold from the sun dwindles away.","author":"H.S. Crow","tags":["gold","hope","iko","love","lunora","romance","true-love","waiting"],"id":72805,"author_id":"H.S.+Crow"},{"text":"That one doesn’t count. The poor scoundrel is deaf, but he makes a fine sniffer. How do you think we found you?","author":"H.S. Crow","tags":["funny","funny","humor"],"id":94035,"author_id":"H.S.+Crow"},{"text":"With each glare words escape me, yet no ears care to listen. It is cold here with her stare, judging every affair. My mind fiddles beneath the changeless confines of this betrayal as we hide behind deceitful wails. We have become trapped in lies long forgotten—squandering our time in lunacy with the thought of what was and is no more.","author":"H.S. Crow","tags":["affair","betrayal","broken-love","brokenheart","cheating","deceit","lies"],"id":126091,"author_id":"H.S.+Crow"},{"text":"Little dove, tread carefully in your dreams. You are not alone in them. Others seek them too.","author":"H.S. Crow","tags":["careful","danger","dreams","others","seek","you-are-not-alone"],"id":152378,"author_id":"H.S.+Crow"},{"text":"You are sorrow. You exist, even if joy is present. You’re not like them. You’re not like any other emotion. Hate and fear come and go, but you exist even when the breeze is clear of sadness. You are permanent and needed.","author":"H.S. Crow","tags":["acceptance","emotions","fear","hate","permanence","sadness","sorrow","spirits"],"id":193219,"author_id":"H.S.+Crow"},{"text":"The elasticity of our dreams can take us to unspoken worlds, but our innate horror of the unknown is what weighs us down. Fight it.Travel to the isolated coils of smoldering dust trapped in our dusky sky or explore the unseen timeless vibration of dancing particles that fashions existence. Whatever choice you make can change your life forever. The same applies to a story. Words are the atoms of a tale, and together they compose a universe.","author":"H.S. Crow","tags":["atoms","exploration","fear","space","universe","words-of-wisdom","writing"],"id":199513,"author_id":"H.S.+Crow"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":20,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}