{"quotes":[{"text":"Not all forms of abuse leave bruises.","author":"Danielle Steel","tags":["bruises","bullying","danielle-steel","journey"],"id":33484,"author_id":"Danielle+Steel"},{"text":"Don’t worry if you fall, sweet girl. Youth is made for bruises.","author":"Shannon Celebi","tags":["bruises","picking-yourself-up","youth","youthfulness"],"id":194259,"author_id":"Shannon+Celebi"},{"text":"You are ever the only onei want to giveall the peachesin my heart tothe only one by whomi want them bruised.","author":"Sanober Khan","tags":["bruised","bruises","falling-in-love","heart","heartache","heartbreak","love","lovers","peaches","poetry","poetry","soulmates"],"id":195346,"author_id":"Sanober+Khan"},{"text":"Someday those bruises inside you will heal. You can't know when someday will come, or what life will look like when it finally does. ... But in a way it doesn't even matter because someday isn't what we have. What we have is right now, this moment, when things aren't okay yet, but in a way they are already, because in the end they will be, and as long as that's true, it's enough.","author":"Lauren Miller","tags":["bruises","emotional-pain","healing","healing-the-past","mental-health"],"id":204571,"author_id":"Lauren+Miller"},{"text":"Even when battered and broken, he was beautiful. Yes, a guy could be beautiful. Especially if that guy was Deandre.","author":"Aishabella Sheikh","tags":["amarissa","battered","beautiful","bruises","deandre","love"],"id":343545,"author_id":"Aishabella+Sheikh"},{"text":"She met a boyand called him Stargazerbecause instead of poemshe recited the names of constellations.He said the freckles on his armswere roadmaps to the sky,and the bruises that he carriedwere supernovas in disguise.'Stargazer.","author":"Alaska Gold","tags":["alaska-gold","bruises","constellation","love","stargazer","stars","writing"],"id":345772,"author_id":"Alaska+Gold"},{"text":"What the hell was that?” he asked no-one in particular. “Did they ram us?”“Uh – negative, sir.” Marnetti offered, reading an instrumental assessment from his display, “It seems we were hit by some kind of pulse wave generated by their jump.”“Their jump? – You mean by arriving they nearly killed us?”Marnetti nodded, continuing, “Range 0.5 kilometers, Captain. Holding steady. No recognized weapons activity.”“Damage report.” He ordered, feeling his way back into his seat, eyes glued to the viewscreen.“Shield 2 down, 1 is buckling.” Pluddeman choked.“Power stable, all systems holding steady,” Marnetti added, now rubbing some bruises.“Any communications?”“Nothing, sir. Static on all frequencies.”“What are they doing?”“Nothing, sir. Waiting maybe.”“Waiting, my ass!” Dayne barked. “They must be sizing us up!","author":"Christina Engela","tags":["activity","ass","barked","bruises","captain","choked","communications","damage","doing","hell","jump","killed","marnetti","negative","nothing","particular","power","ram","shield","sizing","steady","viewscreen","waiting"],"id":350655,"author_id":"Christina+Engela"},{"text":"And I wanted this girl who was like no girl I had ever known, wanted her not in spite of her moods and her secret bruises and her sad attempts at artifice but because of them, because of them all.","author":"Tana French","tags":["bruises","love","real-girls","secrets"],"id":431315,"author_id":"Tana+French"},{"text":"It was the kind of moonthat I would want to send back to my ancestorsand gift to my descendantsso they know that I too,have been bruised...By beauty.","author":"Sanober Khan","tags":["ancestors","beauty","bruised","bruises","descendants","indian-","moon","moonlight","poetry","poetry","poets"],"id":438341,"author_id":"Sanober+Khan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":9,"pages":1}}