{"quotes":[{"text":"I'm beginning to wonder,' said Kent, sitting down now on an overturned wooden tub. 'Who do I serve? Why am I here?'You are here, because, in the expanding ethical ambiguity of our situation, you are steadfast in your righteousness. It is to you, our banished friend, that we all turn—a light amid the dark dealings of family and politics. You are the moral backbone on which the rest of us hang our bloody bits. Without you we are merely wiggly masses of desire writhing in our own devious bile.'Really?' asked the old knight.Aye,' said I.I'm not sure I want to keep company with you lot, then.","author":"Christopher Moore","tags":["ethics","fool","kent","morality"],"id":5157,"author_id":"Christopher+Moore"},{"text":"And I realized that this is what it's like to be an adult, learning to pick from a lot of bad choices and do the best you can with that dreadful compromise. Learning to smile, to put your best foot forward, when the world around you seems to have collapsed in its entirety, become a place of isolation, a sepia photograph of its former illusion.","author":"Jennifer Ryan","tags":["dunkirk","england","kent","uk","women","ww2-history"],"id":44849,"author_id":"Jennifer+Ryan"},{"text":"Thou whoreson zed! Thou unnecessary letter! My lord, if you will give me leave, I will tread this unbolted villain into mortar, and daub the wall of a jakes with him. *all cheer for Shakespearean insults*.","author":"William Shakespeare","tags":["kent","king-lear","shakespeare"],"id":80049,"author_id":"William+Shakespeare"},{"text":"...I've never really had a party before.'Why did you have one now?' I say, just to keep him talking.He gives a half laugh. 'I thought if I had a party, you would come.","author":"Lauren Oliver","tags":["awe","cute","guy","kent","love","sweet"],"id":195583,"author_id":"Lauren+Oliver"},{"text":"Why do you flirt with Mr. Daimler? He's a perv, you. ","author":"Lauren Oliver","tags":["awe","cute","kent","love"],"id":365949,"author_id":"Lauren+Oliver"},{"text":"I was going to tell you that you look beautiful with your hair down. That's all I was going to say.","author":"Lauren Oliver","tags":["beauty","cute","kent","love"],"id":373461,"author_id":"Lauren+Oliver"},{"text":"And then, just at that moment, when I'm no longer sure if I'm dreaming or awake or walking some valley in between where everything you wish for comes true, I feel the flutter of his lips on mine, but it's too late, I'm slipping, I'm gone, he's gone, and the moment curls away and back on itself like a flower folding up for the night.","author":"Lauren Oliver","tags":["awe","kent","kiss","yay"],"id":397050,"author_id":"Lauren+Oliver"},{"text":"She didn't say anything, just a long, quiet 'shhhh,' as if she had learned that the troubles of the world could be absorbed and deafened by slow, steady wistfulness, and I suddenly understood that she'd been silencing the noise for the past twenty years.","author":"Jennifer Ryan","tags":["britain","dunkirk","england","kent","uk","women","ww2"],"id":464459,"author_id":"Jennifer+Ryan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":8,"pages":1}}