{"quotes":[{"text":"If it winds up earlier, you should have a movie picked out. This is assuming she isn’t sending you the ‘let’s go back to my place’ signals. In that case—”“Don’t go there, Bob. Let’s just not go there.","author":"Nora Roberts","tags":["dates","friendships","funny","humor"],"id":6505,"author_id":"Nora+Roberts"},{"text":"What was that? Valentine's Day? Her heart gave a little skip at the thought, she had never spent it in a romantic way before, usually the day meant sending and receiving cute Cupid cards and heart shaped sugar candies, but it was all in a platonic celebration of friendship. This time, it would not be like that, it would be ... Special.","author":"E.A. Bucchianeri","tags":["attraction","celebration","cupid","date","dates","experiences","friendship","heart","holidays","love","platonic","romance","romance-love","romance-novels","romantic","romantic-evening","special-times","st-valentines-day","sugar-candies","sweet","sweet-romance","valentine","valentine-s-day","valentine-s-day","valentines","valentines-day"],"id":74225,"author_id":"E.A.+Bucchianeri"},{"text":"What needed to stop was the succession of dates with these relatively impressive, relatively interesting people, when I could tell from the first minute that everyone here was going to end as a runner-up in a long race to nowhere in particular, broken-down, exhausted, no one wearing a medal.","author":"B.J. Novak","tags":["dates","dating","exhaustion","long-race-to-nowhere","no-medal","relatively-impressive","relatively-interesting"],"id":84122,"author_id":"B.J.+Novak"},{"text":"Don't compete with your friends to win a date with few beautiful girls, but compete to win few beautiful goals.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["amit-kalantri","beautiful-girl","beautiful-goals","compete","competition","contemporary","contemporary-romance","date","date-with-girl","dates","friends","goal","goals","going-to-date","human","humans","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","modern","modern","modern","motivation","motivational","motivational","philosophy","score-a-date","score-date","target","targets","win","win-a-date","wisdom","wisdom"],"id":120742,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"I am concussed,' I announced, entirely sure of my self-diagnosis.''You're fine,' Takumi said as he jogged back towards me. ''Let's get out of here before we're killed.''''I'm sorry,' I said. ''But I can't get up. I have suffered a mild concussion.''Lara ran out and sat down next to me.''Are you OK?''''I am concussed,'' I said.Takumi sat down with me and looked me in the eye. ''Do you know what happened to you?''''The beast got me.''''Do you know where you are?''''I'm on a triple-and-a-half date.''''You're fine,'' Takumi said. ''Let's go.''And then I leaned forward and threw up on Lara's pants.","author":"John Green","tags":["concussion","dates","humorous","pants","throw-up"],"id":136130,"author_id":"John+Green"},{"text":"Don't answer the door in a wedding dress and veil, he might not think you're joking.","author":"Amy Sedaris","tags":["dates","jokes","relationships","romance"],"id":147188,"author_id":"Amy+Sedaris"},{"text":"It was the twenty-first of June and Bitsy announced a Summer Solstice party.","author":"Julia Fierro","tags":["dates","parties","summer"],"id":150992,"author_id":"Julia+Fierro"},{"text":"Nellie grinned. 'I always wanted to go to Venice. It's supposed to be the romance capital of the world.'Sweet,' put in Dan. 'Too bad your date is an Egyptian Mau on a hunger strike.'The au pair sighed. 'Better than an eleven-year-old with a big mouth.","author":"Gordon Korman","tags":["cats","dan-cahill","dates","nellie-gomez","romance","saladin","the39clues","venice"],"id":180541,"author_id":"Gordon+Korman"},{"text":"I try to hook you up every day. What's the point of calendars without dates?","author":"Lauren Kate","tags":["dates","dating","funny","hook-up","point-of","try"],"id":180760,"author_id":"Lauren+Kate"},{"text":"I remember things like dates down to minutes, what they smelled like, how they walked and how they tug their hands in their pockets. I twine myself in nostalgia of moments and not necessarily the people in them. I long for the idea of the past and occasionally forget the present. I find myself lost in memories, just looking to recreate the moment; forgetting the past is in the past and what we have is now.","author":"Dominic Riccitello","tags":["dates","life","love","moments","nostalgia","nostalgic","people","perspective","quote","relationship","thoughts"],"id":216325,"author_id":"Dominic+Riccitello"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":20,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}