{"author":"Amanda Craig","author_id":"Amanda+Craig","total_quotes":34,"quotes":[{"text":"It’s not by accident that people talk of a state of confusion as not being able to see the wood for the trees, or of being out of the woods when some crisis is surmopunted. It is a place of loss, confusion, terror and anger, a place where you can, like Dante, find yourself going down into Hell. But if it’s any comfort, the dark wood isn’t just that. It’s also a place of opportunity and adventure. It is the place in which fortunes can be reversed, hearts mended, hopes reborn.","author":"Amanda Craig","tags":["dante","divine-comedy","finding-yourself","forests","hope","inferno","life-crisis","mysical","recovery","self-knowledge","trees","woods"],"id":31798,"author_id":"Amanda+Craig"},{"text":"It’s all biology. If it weren’t for two thousand years of the Christian tradition we wouldn’t think of pretending otherwise…Romance is the true opiate of the masses.","author":"Amanda Craig","tags":["biology","christian","con","illusion","lie","love","marriage","romance"],"id":41628,"author_id":"Amanda+Craig"},{"text":"To thoughtful natures, events are like depth charges: the surface is calm, but the shock spreads further.","author":"Amanda Craig","tags":["reactions","thoughtfulness","trauma"],"id":60784,"author_id":"Amanda+Craig"},{"text":"Some people, perhaps those with more dignity and less rage gnawing at the roots of their being, are nicer as failures, For me, it was like descending a deep pit that had no bottom.","author":"Amanda Craig","tags":["anger","depression","disappointment","failure","pride","proud","rage","shame"],"id":62081,"author_id":"Amanda+Craig"},{"text":"It’s so easy to believe that others deserve their fate, and the fact was that if nobody bothered to help other people then the worst would always happen… She stares out of her window at the busy street, where the British go about their daily business, taking it for granted that they will never be arrested for not voting the right way, praying the right way, dressing the right way or for belonging to a different tribe.","author":"Amanda Craig","tags":["asylum","britain","freedom","gratitude","massacre","migrant","refuge","safety"],"id":64765,"author_id":"Amanda+Craig"},{"text":"But this city is a world of its own, a country within a country. People are used to taking the old and making it news; and used, too, to taking the new and making it old. Every glass of water from its taps, it is said, has passed six times through the kidneys of another, and every scrap of its land has been trodden on, fought over, dug up and broken down for centuries.","author":"Amanda Craig","tags":["britain","capital","city","dirty","england","london","metropolis","uk"],"id":78183,"author_id":"Amanda+Craig"},{"text":"Each morning the light came through the slats of the shutters in ripples, and as it washed towards the inhabitants of the Casa Luna it smoothed away memories of the past, It was for this that they had endured long hours in the grey English winter or freezing American climes, for this that they had worked and planned and worked extra hours/ The horrible feelings of stress, tension, anger and frustration that coursed through their veins every day almost unnoticed began to fade.","author":"Amanda Craig","tags":["effort","holiday","ita-y","relax","reward","tuscany","umbria","vacation","work"],"id":109098,"author_id":"Amanda+Craig"},{"text":"I am a Jewish mother. My dying words will be, “Put a jumper on.","author":"Amanda Craig","tags":["culture","jewsh","judaism","maternal","mother","parent","warm"],"id":140905,"author_id":"Amanda+Craig"},{"text":"Just about the worst thing an artist can do is to try and be a nice person.","author":"Amanda Craig","tags":["ambition","artist","morality","niceness","perseverance","writer"],"id":142752,"author_id":"Amanda+Craig"},{"text":"Very happy or unhappy, people disappear.","author":"Amanda Craig","tags":["disappearance","friends","happiness","sadness","sociable"],"id":146865,"author_id":"Amanda+Craig"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":34,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}