{"quotes":[{"text":"Life after love was possible. I was proof. Loss taught you about yourself, burrowed in the dark parts of your soul and ate you from the inside out.","author":"Hailey Edwards","tags":["evermine","hard-truths","wisdom"],"id":355,"author_id":"Hailey+Edwards"},{"text":"It should never be your job to pick up the pieces of a broken man or to housebreak one. There are far better things you can do with your time.","author":"Alice Walsh","tags":["hard-truths","love-story","reality-check"],"id":30559,"author_id":"Alice+Walsh"},{"text":"Mum liked to say that some things happen for a reason, that sometimes obstacles were there to stop you from doing something stupid.","author":"Maggie Stiefvater","tags":["hard-truths","wisdom"],"id":53134,"author_id":"Maggie+Stiefvater"},{"text":"Heaven is not a republic.","author":"E.A. Bucchianeri","tags":["catholic","catholic-","christian","christianity","governments","hard-truths","heaven","jrr-tolkien","lord-of-the-rings","lotr","religion","republic","republics","theology","tolkien","truth"],"id":110932,"author_id":"E.A.+Bucchianeri"},{"text":"I can't find a man I want, and I'm beginning to think the problem is me. Maybe I expect too much. Maybe I'm holding out for something that doesn't even exist.' She'd voiced her secret fear. Maybe grand passion was just a dream. With all the kissing she'd done in the past few months, she'd not once been overcome with desire. Her parents certainly hadn't had any great passion between them. Come to think of it, she wasn't sure she'd ever seen grand passion outside of a movie theater or a book.","author":"Karen Marie Moning","tags":["hard-truths","highlander","love","passion"],"id":131833,"author_id":"Karen+Marie+Moning"},{"text":"God Is, Lucifer is a devil, and there is a Hell.","author":"E.A. Bucchianeri","tags":["catholic","christian","christopher-marlowe","creator","demons","devil","eternity","faust","god","hard-truths","hell","lucifer","marlowe","truth"],"id":171618,"author_id":"E.A.+Bucchianeri"},{"text":"Some women are just better at knowing what they want, which saves them the trouble of wasting too much time on the wrong guy.","author":"Alice Walsh","tags":["hard-truths","love","relationship"],"id":179672,"author_id":"Alice+Walsh"},{"text":"Reality wins, and I'd rather see the truth than stay in love with a fantasy.","author":"Jewel","tags":["fantasy","hard-truths","life","life-lessons","real-life","reality","truth"],"id":188088,"author_id":"Jewel"},{"text":"When you took a man's job away from him, his ability to feed and clothe his family, that man was going to get angry.","author":"Darrin Grimwood","tags":["anger","hard-times","hard-truths","industrialisation","job-losses","jobless","joblessness","jobs","mechanization","society","truth","unemployment"],"id":251281,"author_id":"Darrin+Grimwood"},{"text":"An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.","author":"E.A. Bucchianeri","tags":["acquaintances","advice","caring","caring-for-others","catholic","catholic-","christian","companion","constructive-criticism","criticism","flattery","friend","friends","friendship","gadfly","hard-truths","human-nature","people","tough-love","true-friends","true-love","truth","wisdom","wise-sayings"],"id":258233,"author_id":"E.A.+Bucchianeri"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":17,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}