{"quotes":[{"text":"An approach, according to which children should fulfil their parents’ dreams/ do everything in order to make their parents happy/ provide their parents with a peace of mind, or whatever they want for themselves - because they owe it to them for all those years in which their parents took care of them - is utterly selfish.","author":"Lukasz Laniecki","tags":["career-choices","career-paths","children","controlling-parents","family","family-pressure","free-choice","freedom","happiness","life","parents","success","young-adults"],"id":14394,"author_id":"Lukasz+Laniecki"},{"text":"They know a lot, but they don’t know everything, and they can’t advise you on anything.They can only tell you what they believe worked / or didn’t work for them.","author":"Lukasz Laniecki","tags":["career-advice","career-choices","career-paths","children","family","ilife","life-advice","life-choices","parents","success","young-adults"],"id":20822,"author_id":"Lukasz+Laniecki"},{"text":"Parents like to think of themselves as Batmans, and of their children as Gotham Cities. Gotham City depends on Batman for its survival, and Batman delivers. This belief prevents parents from letting those young adults actually live their lives.","author":"Lukasz Laniecki","tags":["career-choices","children","choices","experience","learning","learning-process","life","life-choices","mistakes","parenting","parents","success","young-adults"],"id":34369,"author_id":"Lukasz+Laniecki"},{"text":"The words ‘I love you’ are worthless when you don’t know who the 'I' is in that statement.","author":"Jaime Reed","tags":["boyfriend-and-girlfriend","culture","desire","first-love","food-for-thought","friendship","girl","health","healthy","heartbreak","honesty","humor","imagination","individuality","life","life-lessons","love","love","mental-illness","novel","passion","reality","relationships","self","sickness-and-health","teen","teen-fiction","truth","wisdom","young","young-adult","young-adult-fiction","young-adult-literature","young-adult-novels","young-adults","youth"],"id":45848,"author_id":"Jaime+Reed"},{"text":"Love is not for thrill-seekers, dreamers, or children with short attention spans. And you, son, fit into all three of those categories.","author":"Jaime Reed","tags":["culture","desire","first-love","food-for-thought","friendship","girl","health","healthy","heartbreak","honesty","humor","imagination","individuality","life","life-lessons","love","mental-illness","novel","passion","reality","relationships","self","sickness-and-health","teen","teen-fiction","truth","wisdom","young","young-adult","young-adult-fiction","young-adult-literature","young-adult-novels","young-adults","youth"],"id":59529,"author_id":"Jaime+Reed"},{"text":"I was 17 years old when I was killed by a vampire'-Ruby Kennedy from My Handsome Vampire.","author":"Vianka Van Bokkem","tags":["paranormal-romance","vampire","vampires","young-adults"],"id":61660,"author_id":"Vianka+Van+Bokkem"},{"text":"We grow up in a belief system according to which children should always make their parents proud and happy (instead of making themselves proud and happy) - and that’s unfortunately the belief system in most cultures.","author":"Lukasz Laniecki","tags":["career-choices","children","controlling-parents","culture","family","family-pressure","free-choice","freedom","happiness","life","life-advice","life-choices","parents","society","young-adults"],"id":123282,"author_id":"Lukasz+Laniecki"},{"text":"His allure, as he stood there, his face, even with the red swollen eyes, everything about him was gorgeous.","author":"Maryam Schonbeck","tags":["fiction","impossible","love","young-adults"],"id":124617,"author_id":"Maryam+Schonbeck"},{"text":"You two are children almost grown. Your hearts have not hardened to the realities of the world. Your dreams have not fallen through your fingers. You still know hope.","author":"Laura Lam","tags":["adults","children","dreams","hope","young-adults"],"id":130363,"author_id":"Laura+Lam"},{"text":"Hope can be foolish or misguided, but there was no such thing as false hope. Hope was always true even when there was no evidence to support its claim.” - Liam.","author":"Jaime Reed","tags":["culture","desire","first-love","food-for-thought","friendship","girl","health","healthy","heartbreak","honesty","humor","imagination","individuality","life","life-lessons","love","mental-illness","novel","passion","reality","relationships","self","sickness-and-health","teen","teen-fiction","truth","wisdom","young","young-adult","young-adult-fiction","young-adult-literature","young-adult-novels","young-adults","youthful-optimism"],"id":133399,"author_id":"Jaime+Reed"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":44,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}