{"quotes":[{"id":2820,"quote":"“With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.”","author":"Margaret Mitchell","bookTitle":null,"tags":["courage","reputation"]},{"id":2821,"quote":"“We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.”","author":"Nathaniel Hawthorne","bookTitle":"The Scarlet Letter","tags":[]},{"id":2822,"quote":"“The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.”","author":"Nietzsche","bookTitle":null,"tags":["suicide"]},{"id":2823,"quote":"“Some things are more precious because they don't last long.”","author":"Oscar Wilde","bookTitle":"The Picture of Dorian Gray","tags":[]},{"id":2824,"quote":"“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”","author":"William Shakespeare","bookTitle":"A Midsummer Night’s Dream","tags":["comedy","elizabethan","robin-goodfellow"]},{"id":2825,"quote":"“Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.”","author":"Zig Ziglar","bookTitle":"Raising Positive Kids in a Negative World","tags":["bathing","humor","motivation"]},{"id":2826,"quote":"“But until a person can say deeply and honestly, \"I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday,\" that person cannot say, \"I choose otherwise.”","author":"Stephen R. Covey","bookTitle":"The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change","tags":["choices","misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt"]},{"id":2827,"quote":"“The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.”","author":"Mother Teresa","bookTitle":null,"tags":["loneliness"]},{"id":2828,"quote":"“If you're texting Magnus to say 'I think u r kewl,' I'm going to kill you.\"\"Who's Magnus?\" Max inquired.\"He's a warlock,\" said Alec.\"A sexy, sexy warlock,\" Isabelle told Max, ignoring Alec's look of total fury.\"But warlocks are bad,\" protested Max, looking baffled.\"Exactly,\" said Isabelle.”","author":"Cassandra Clare","bookTitle":"City of Glass","tags":["alec","city-of-ashes","isabelle","magnus-bane","max","mortal-instruments"]},{"id":2829,"quote":"“A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.”","author":"Stephen King","bookTitle":"Skeleton Crew","tags":["reading","writing"]},{"id":2830,"quote":"“Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”","author":"Fyodor Dostoevsky","bookTitle":"Crime and Punishment","tags":["self-realization"]},{"id":2831,"quote":"“Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.”","author":"William Makepeace Thackeray","bookTitle":null,"tags":[]},{"id":2832,"quote":"“I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.”","author":"Charlotte Brontë","bookTitle":"Jane Eyre","tags":["character","empowerment","flaws","freedom","gender","ideal-woman","identity","image","independence","integrity","love","men","realism","romance","self-awareness","self-determination","women"]},{"id":2833,"quote":"“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else.”","author":"Charles Dickens ","bookTitle":"Our Mutual Friend","tags":["giving","helping-others"]},{"id":2834,"quote":"“How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot!The world forgetting, by the world forgot.Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d”","author":"Alexander Pope","bookTitle":"Eloisa to Abelard","tags":["innocence"]},{"id":2835,"quote":"“You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.”","author":"Jane Austen","bookTitle":"Pride and Prejudice","tags":["mr-darcy","pride-and-prejudice"]},{"id":2836,"quote":"“Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.”","author":"Antoine de Saint-Exupéry","bookTitle":"The Little Prince","tags":["butterflies","caterpillars","philosophy"]},{"id":2837,"quote":"“What do you fear, lady?\" [Aragorn] asked. \"A cage,\" [Éowyn] said. \"To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.”","author":"J.R.R. Tolkien","bookTitle":"The Return of the King","tags":["caged","fear","gender-roles"]},{"id":2838,"quote":"“If you are a student you should always get a good nights sleep unless you have come to the good part of your book, and then you should stay up all night and let your schoolwork fall by the wayside, a phrase which means 'flunk'.”","author":"Lemony Snicket","bookTitle":null,"tags":["humor"]},{"id":2839,"quote":"“Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.”","author":"William Shakespeare","bookTitle":"Romeo and Juliet","tags":["love","romeo-and-juliet","values","waste"]},{"id":2840,"quote":"“It stops here. With me and you. It ends with us.”","author":"Colleen Hoover","bookTitle":"It Ends with Us","tags":[]},{"id":2841,"quote":"“Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.”","author":"John Green","bookTitle":"Paper Towns","tags":[]},{"id":2842,"quote":"“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”","author":"Confucius","bookTitle":null,"tags":["complexity","philosophy","simplicity"]},{"id":2843,"quote":"“To die, it's easy. But you have to struggle for life.”","author":"Art Spiegelman","bookTitle":"Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History","tags":[]},{"id":2844,"quote":"“It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.”","author":"George Washington","bookTitle":null,"tags":["confession","excuses","honesty","lies","lying","truth"]},{"id":2845,"quote":"“Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.”","author":"Anais Nin","bookTitle":null,"tags":["dreams","life","love"]},{"id":2846,"quote":"“Nobody gets everything in this life. You decide your priorities and you make your choices. I'd decided long ago that any cake I had would be eaten.”","author":"Donald E. Westlake","bookTitle":"Two Much!","tags":[]},{"id":2847,"quote":"“The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.”","author":"Friedrich Nietzsche","bookTitle":"Thus Spoke Zarathustra","tags":["inspirational"]},{"id":2848,"quote":"“A girl calls and asks, \"Does it hurt very much to die?\"\"Well, sweetheart,\" I tell her, \"yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.”","author":"Chuck Palahniuk","bookTitle":"Survivor","tags":["death","living"]},{"id":2849,"quote":"“I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.”","author":"Groucho Marx","bookTitle":null,"tags":[]}]}