{"author":"J. Matthew Nespoli","author_id":"J.+Matthew+Nespoli","total_quotes":14,"quotes":[{"text":"People talk about history and things like slavery, genocide, and religious persecution as horrors that happened in the past because we were ignorant. But nothing's changed. We still hate what we don't understand.","author":"J. Matthew Nespoli","tags":["bigotry","crime","fear","hatred","ignorance","prejudice","war"],"id":7091,"author_id":"J.+Matthew+Nespoli"},{"text":"Life is all about love. Everything — hate, lust, money, power, death, birth — it all stems from love. If life were put in a giant pot and boiled like a piece of chicken, all the fat would melt away, and what you’d be left with is love.","author":"J. Matthew Nespoli","tags":["birth","broken","death","hate","love","lust","power"],"id":28142,"author_id":"J.+Matthew+Nespoli"},{"text":"Part of me wanted to be like the other guys at school. I wanted to be simple. People who do less thinking tend to be happier... I wanted to be like the other guys because they were having more fun. But I couldn't be like them because I hated everything they stood for.","author":"J. Matthew Nespoli","tags":["envy"],"id":36882,"author_id":"J.+Matthew+Nespoli"},{"text":"Death didn't happen like I expected it to. There was no Grim Reaper, no chorus of angels, no army of demons. And my life didn't flash before my eyes. Death was the color of softness, a delicate green under a thin film of baby powder. There was nothing but soft random thoughts and picture, drifting through me like a child's breath blowing through a dandelion after making a wish. And as I died, I was held by my love. I wanted to soak up her love and smuggle it with me to wherever my soul was headed.-character Ron (Broken).","author":"J. Matthew Nespoli","tags":["angels","color-of-death","death","dying","grim-reaper"],"id":72409,"author_id":"J.+Matthew+Nespoli"},{"text":"I have every luxury imaginable, I own acres of land, and have enough money to buy the moon were it for sale. Though people think I have everything, it sometimes feels like my possessions own me; towering over me and reducing me into a small bundle of insignificance.","author":"J. Matthew Nespoli","tags":["consumerism","depression","money","possessions","wealth"],"id":95245,"author_id":"J.+Matthew+Nespoli"},{"text":"Music eliminates my gravity. When I'm singing, I'm a ravenous pterodactyl. I'm alive and free and hungry, and I know who I am. But the flood is coming; it's weighing me down, making me prisoner to my loneliness and pain.-character Joanna (Broken).","author":"J. Matthew Nespoli","tags":["loneliness","music","pain"],"id":128481,"author_id":"J.+Matthew+Nespoli"},{"text":"Hollywood-Nobody's impressed by anybody because they're all too consumed with trying to cover up their own shortcomings. Hollywood is a microcosm of a world of lazy moral ideals and social indifference where every man is trying to convince himself he's a king.","author":"J. Matthew Nespoli","tags":["entitlement","hollywood","lazy","morality","social-indifference"],"id":130980,"author_id":"J.+Matthew+Nespoli"},{"text":"People can't change. We're pre-programmed robots going through the motions. We're the same at death as we are at birth.","author":"J. Matthew Nespoli","tags":["changing","choice","free-will"],"id":154285,"author_id":"J.+Matthew+Nespoli"},{"text":"White men are irresponsible with their power and money. Our beautiful earth is million of years old, and in a mere five hundred years, white people have nearly destroyed it. Another hundred years like the last hundred, and there won't be a living creature left on the planet.-character Amber Johnson (Broken).","author":"J. Matthew Nespoli","tags":["earth","global-warming","money","power","white-men"],"id":219357,"author_id":"J.+Matthew+Nespoli"},{"text":"Unfortunately, loving someone doesn't obligate them to love you back.","author":"J. Matthew Nespoli","tags":["being-loved","falling-in-love","love","loving"],"id":351814,"author_id":"J.+Matthew+Nespoli"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":14,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}