{"author":"Andrew Smith","author_id":"Andrew+Smith","total_quotes":23,"quotes":[{"text":"Worry and regret are both useless weights that provide no drag. They never did anything to slow down the planet for one goddamned second.","author":"Andrew Smith","tags":["regret","worry"],"id":3939,"author_id":"Andrew+Smith"},{"text":"I love how, whenever you tell me a story, you go backwards and forwards and tell me everything else that could possibly be happening in every direction, like an explosion. Like a flower blooming.","author":"Andrew Smith","tags":["everything","explosion","stories"],"id":26762,"author_id":"Andrew+Smith"},{"text":"You must be crazy, after all, if a bird loves you.","author":"Andrew Smith","tags":["birds","crazy"],"id":55000,"author_id":"Andrew+Smith"},{"text":"There is something inside all boys that drives us to go away again and again and again.","author":"Andrew Smith","tags":["boys","grasshopper-jungle"],"id":68357,"author_id":"Andrew+Smith"},{"text":"All good books are about everything, abbreviated.","author":"Andrew Smith","tags":["books","everything","reading"],"id":130875,"author_id":"Andrew+Smith"},{"text":"But Jack doesn'.","author":"Andrew Smith","tags":["crazy","marbury-lens"],"id":153583,"author_id":"Andrew+Smith"},{"text":"I am going to build something big for you.","author":"Andrew Smith","tags":["crazy","marbury-lens"],"id":159856,"author_id":"Andrew+Smith"},{"text":"I was certain about this: In the best new language, there would be no words for me or you. Those words have caused all the trouble started by the old languages. In any new language, there should only be we.","author":"Andrew Smith","tags":["humanity","language","the-alex-crow","war","we"],"id":161444,"author_id":"Andrew+Smith"},{"text":"It's no wonder I became a monster, too.","author":"Andrew Smith","tags":["crazy","marbury-lens","monster"],"id":173936,"author_id":"Andrew+Smith"},{"text":"Was Apollo worth all the effort and expense? If it had been about the Moon, the answer would be no, but it wasn't, it was about the Earth. The answer is yes. The only thing I can't see in all this is a rationale for going back. Unless we could find a way to take everyone.","author":"Andrew Smith","tags":["moon","space-exploration"],"id":177293,"author_id":"Andrew+Smith"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":23,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}