{"author":"Alex George","author_id":"Alex+George","total_quotes":7,"quotes":[{"text":"The answer to most prayers is no.","author":"Alex George","tags":["faith","god","grief","loss","no","prayer"],"id":43147,"author_id":"Alex+George"},{"text":"But love and pain are two sides of the same coin. You can't have one without the other. Sometimes that's how we know we're alive.","author":"Alex George","tags":["children","grief","loss","love","pain"],"id":83846,"author_id":"Alex+George"},{"text":"There's just so much to live for.","author":"Alex George","tags":["happiness","hope","life"],"id":155762,"author_id":"Alex+George"},{"text":"Sometimes life-changing moments slip by unnoticed, their significance only becoming apparent in the light of subsequent events.","author":"Alex George","tags":["change","life","memory"],"id":222639,"author_id":"Alex+George"},{"text":"I need to confront my loss, not run away from it. I wanted to wade in with my eyes open and all my senses alert. I wanted to register everything, from the giant waves of sorrow to the inkiest ripples of remorse. I didn't want to miss any of it.","author":"Alex George","tags":["loss","remorse","sorrow"],"id":290533,"author_id":"Alex+George"},{"text":"When he left us, he stole all the words.","author":"Alex George","tags":["abandonment","death","grief","loss"],"id":334716,"author_id":"Alex+George"},{"text":"From across her husband's open grave I had thought she exuded a certain foxy mystique, but now, to my disappointment, she looked just like every other mother I knew.","author":"Alex George","tags":["disappointment","mother","motherhood"],"id":463759,"author_id":"Alex+George"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":7,"pages":1}}