{"quotes":[{"text":"Do our dreams carry messages from the great beyond, sent by the people we have lost, or are they a reflection of our desperation and wishful thinking?","author":"Zeina Kassem","tags":["accident","arab","beirut","death","dreams","grief","lebanon","life","middle-eastern","missing","missing-someone","mother","motherhood","pain","suffering"],"id":14411,"author_id":"Zeina+Kassem"},{"text":"I wish I had lost an arm or a leg. It would have been much easier than losing a part of my heart, which lives on, but now beats to a different rhythm.","author":"Zeina Kassem","tags":["arab","beirut","death","lebanon","life","middle-eastern","missing","missing-someone","mother","motherhood","pain","suffering"],"id":23186,"author_id":"Zeina+Kassem"},{"text":"I believe love is like war: we only know how it starts, and nobody knows how it will end.","author":"Jabber Douaihy","tags":["civil-war","lebanon","love","war"],"id":30027,"author_id":"Jabber+Douaihy"},{"text":"The beauty of the sea is that it never shows any weakness and never tires of the countless souls that unleash their broken voices into its secret depths.","author":"Zeina Kassem","tags":["accident","arab","beirut","death","grief","lebanon","life","middle-eastern","missing","missing-someone","mother","motherhood","pain","suffering"],"id":118433,"author_id":"Zeina+Kassem"},{"text":"Our dead become the photographs and words we hang on the walls, but they also hang on the walls of our hearts, the windows of our lips, and the sobs in our voices.","author":"Zeina Kassem","tags":["accident","arab","beirut","death","grief","lebanon","life","middle-eastern","missing","missing-someone","mother","motherhood","pain","suffering"],"id":119477,"author_id":"Zeina+Kassem"},{"text":"For Lebanon to have any future, gotta adopt a resolute policy v/s terrorism. Whoever plots against the land should bear the consequences.","author":"Ziad K. Abdelnour","tags":["future","lebanon","policy"],"id":156506,"author_id":"Ziad+K.+Abdelnour"},{"text":"It's as though you had lost an arm or leg but still instinctively reach out to feel your missing limb or try to walk again, placing your entire weight on something that no longer is there.","author":"Zeina Kassem","tags":["accident","arab","beirut","death","lebanon","life","middle-eastern","missing","missing-someone","mother","motherhood","pain","suffering"],"id":162686,"author_id":"Zeina+Kassem"},{"text":"That's when it hit me; my sunglasses were buried in the grave where my Talal lay. Yes, my sunglasses were buried with him. But oh, how I wish my eyes had gone with him instead.","author":"Zeina Kassem","tags":["arab","beirut","death","eyes","lebanon","life","love","middle-eastern","mother","motherhood","pain","suffering"],"id":200166,"author_id":"Zeina+Kassem"},{"text":"It's as though you had lost an arm or leg but still instinctively reach out to feel your missing limb or try to walk again, placing your entire weight on something that is no longer is there.","author":"Zeina Kassem","tags":["accident","arab","beirut","death","lebanon","life","middle-eastern","missing","missing-someone","pain","suffering"],"id":201002,"author_id":"Zeina+Kassem"},{"text":"Buddy I have lived through three wars and several major political skirmishes. You can't beat me down with your boring-to-death sales pitches.","author":"Anissa Rafeh","tags":["funny","humor","humorous","humour","lebanese","lebanon"],"id":241775,"author_id":"Anissa+Rafeh"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":20,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}