{"author":"A. Lee Martinez","author_id":"A.+Lee+Martinez","total_quotes":13,"quotes":[{"text":"She stopped shrieking after a moment. It wasn't the crazy looks she drew from the other pedestrians that made her stop. And her damaged sanity hadn't managed to repair itself. She'd left something behind in that apartment. Something she'd always taken for granted. Faith in a rational world. It was like a tiny cog had been removed from her brain, and all the gears were still working, but a slight wobble was slowly and inevitably stripping the teeth until one day, without warning the Rube Goldberg device that was her mind would fall apart with a loud SPROING.","author":"A. Lee Martinez","tags":["insanity"],"id":4727,"author_id":"A.+Lee+Martinez"},{"text":"When you cross over into the weird stuff, there's no going back. Hector has a theory on it. Calls it the law of 'Anomalous Phenomena Attraction.' He explained it to me once. Didn't really pay attention, but it boils down to 'weird shit pulls in more weird shit.","author":"A. Lee Martinez","tags":["funny","paranormal","weird"],"id":6994,"author_id":"A.+Lee+Martinez"},{"text":"We have to destroy the radioactive brain of Madame Curie.","author":"A. Lee Martinez","tags":["humor","science-fiction"],"id":11982,"author_id":"A.+Lee+Martinez"},{"text":"Quiet descended, a silence so consuming that even the drafty corridors ceased whistling. Bog wasn't certain where to look, so he solved the problem by plucking out his eyes and sticking them in a drawer.","author":"A. Lee Martinez","tags":["awkward-moments","eyes","ned","ogres"],"id":25300,"author_id":"A.+Lee+Martinez"},{"text":"He hasn't earned your your mercy.'Nessy replied, 'Mercy isn't earned. It's given.","author":"A. Lee Martinez","tags":["heart","mercy-of-god","mercy","niceties"],"id":93768,"author_id":"A.+Lee+Martinez"},{"text":"Judy went back to Paulie’s place, but either he wasn’t home or he wasn’t answering his door. After banging on the door for four minutes, then waiting another ten, she decided she’d probably have to find someplace else to crash today She wished she’d taken the time to actually have a few friends.","author":"A. Lee Martinez","tags":["funny","humor","martinez"],"id":116610,"author_id":"A.+Lee+Martinez"},{"text":"He gives me the hairy eyeball, and asks me to help him find his pancreas.","author":"A. Lee Martinez","tags":["gil-s","humor","vampire"],"id":163749,"author_id":"A.+Lee+Martinez"},{"text":"Those who write are writers. Those who wait are waiters.","author":"A. Lee Martinez","tags":["writer","writers","writers-on-writing","writing-life"],"id":175212,"author_id":"A.+Lee+Martinez"},{"text":"Death should take more care with his paperwork.","author":"A. Lee Martinez","tags":["fantasy"],"id":180136,"author_id":"A.+Lee+Martinez"},{"text":"I believe it was the great ogre philosopher Gary who observed that complexity is, generally speaking, an illusion of conscious desire. All things exist in as simple a form as necessity dictates. When a thing is labeled 'complex,' that's just a roundabout way of saying you're not observant enough to understand it.","author":"A. Lee Martinez","tags":["complexity","gary","observation","philosopher","simplicity","understanding"],"id":238527,"author_id":"A.+Lee+Martinez"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":13,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}