{"author":"Alan Bradley","author_id":"Alan+Bradley","total_quotes":60,"quotes":[{"text":"Dreamless nights, I knew, can be the most troubling, since you come back not knowing where you've been or what you've done.","author":"Alan Bradley","tags":["dreams"],"id":876,"author_id":"Alan+Bradley"},{"text":"Magic doesn’t work when you’re sad.","author":"Alan Bradley","tags":["magic","sadness"],"id":9921,"author_id":"Alan+Bradley"},{"text":"If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one's self is like the heat in an oven. It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.","author":"Alan Bradley","tags":["inspirational"],"id":11004,"author_id":"Alan+Bradley"},{"text":"How could tickling, even though it causes laughter, be at the same time such a vicious form of torture?Sitting on the edge of my bed, I thought it through.I came to the conclusion, at last, that it was like this: Tickling and learning were much the same thing. When you tickle yourself—ecstasy; but when anyone else tickles you—agony.","author":"Alan Bradley","tags":["learning","tickling","torture"],"id":20006,"author_id":"Alan+Bradley"},{"text":"Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning.","author":"Alan Bradley","tags":["christmas","holidays","humor","poison"],"id":25733,"author_id":"Alan+Bradley"},{"text":"Cheese!' I exclaimed. It was a secret prayer, whose meaning was known only to God and to me.","author":"Alan Bradley","tags":["humour","prayer"],"id":60537,"author_id":"Alan+Bradley"},{"text":"As anybody with two older sisters can tell you, a closed door is like a red rag to a bull. It cannot go unchallenged.","author":"Alan Bradley","tags":["family","sisters"],"id":71769,"author_id":"Alan+Bradley"},{"text":"Not very good with death? Father was a military man, and military men lived with death; lived for death; lived on death. To a professional soldier, oddly enough, death was life.","author":"Alan Bradley","tags":["death","military","war"],"id":74913,"author_id":"Alan+Bradley"},{"text":"Think of the billions of trillions of snowflakes, and the billions of trillions of hydrogen and oxygen molecules in every single one of them. It makes you wonder, doesn’t it, who wrote the laws for the wind and the rain, the snow and the dew? I’ve tried to work it out, but it makes my head spin.","author":"Alan Bradley","tags":["design","nature","reality"],"id":75408,"author_id":"Alan+Bradley"},{"text":"They seem nice, though, your sisters, really,' Porcelain remarked.'Ha!' I said. 'Shows what little you know! I hate them!''Hate them? I should have thought you'd love them.''Of course I love them,' I said.... 'That's why I'm so good at hating them.","author":"Alan Bradley","tags":["family","humor","mystery"],"id":81974,"author_id":"Alan+Bradley"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":60,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}