{"author":"Anthony Ryan","author_id":"Anthony+Ryan","total_quotes":26,"quotes":[{"text":"Love must risk all or perish.","author":"Anthony Ryan","tags":["dare","die","disappear","endeavor","fade","faith","hope","life","love","pain","perish","risk","try","war"],"id":55003,"author_id":"Anthony+Ryan"},{"text":"Power comes at a price, love,' Veliss replied through bared teeth, maintaining the smile she offered to the townsfolk lining the square.'What power?'All power. The power to rule, to kill, or, in your case this fine morning, the power to incite the lust of the old goat you're about to meet.'Lust? I have no desire to incite lust in anyone.'Veliss turned to her with a quizzical expression, her smile suddenly genuine. 'Then I'm afraid you're in for a lifetime of disappointment.","author":"Anthony Ryan","tags":["afraid","command","conversation","cost","creep","desire","disappointment","fake","funny","goat","incite-encourage","kill","laugh","life","lifetime","love","lust","man","old","payment","people","perv","power","pretence","pretend","price","priest","rule","smile","strength","teeth","tell","townsfolk","truth"],"id":86231,"author_id":"Anthony+Ryan"},{"text":"If you believe our cause so hopeless, why join us?'Because you offered something I had forgotten could be offered, a choice. And I choose to die free.","author":"Anthony Ryan","tags":["belief","believe","cause","choice","choose","death","die","forget","forgot","forgotten","free","freedom","future","give","grant","hope","hopeless","join","offer","option","partake","path","possibility"],"id":91992,"author_id":"Anthony+Ryan"},{"text":"Courage?' I gave a very soft laugh. 'I find courage is just another of life's illusions. In the end, we all do what we must.","author":"Anthony Ryan","tags":["amusement","behave","believe","courage","deprecating","do","end","honest","humor","illusion","laugh","life","must","need","pretence","pretend"],"id":112599,"author_id":"Anthony+Ryan"},{"text":"I cannot believe the path to victory lies in staining our souls so black we become indistinguishable from those we fight.","author":"Anthony Ryan","tags":["appear","battle","black","cannot","change","deny","distinguish","enemy","fight","monster","path","route","soul","stain","success","victory","void","win"],"id":117986,"author_id":"Anthony+Ryan"},{"text":"Lust? I have no desire to incite lust in anyone.'Veliss turned to her with a quizzical expression, her smile suddenly genuine. 'Then I'm afraid you're in for a lifetime of disappointment.","author":"Anthony Ryan","tags":["desire","grin","honesty","humor","incite","innocence","innocent","laugh","lust","sincere","smile"],"id":119485,"author_id":"Anthony+Ryan"},{"text":"I did wonder if I'd have cause to rue my action. Now I believe it can safely be filed under Necessary Regrets.","author":"Anthony Ryan","tags":["action","belief","believe","cause","decide","discover","find","necessary","needed","question-consider","reason","regret","rethink","rue","wonder","worthwhile"],"id":130112,"author_id":"Anthony+Ryan"},{"text":"War is always an adventure to those who've never seen it.","author":"Anthony Ryan","tags":["irony","war"],"id":145565,"author_id":"Anthony+Ryan"},{"text":"Divinity retains the appearance of insight, when in reality it celebrates ignorance. Its tenets are so much clay, and when the clay sets, it becomes dogma.","author":"Anthony Ryan","tags":["apostle","appearance","belief","believes","clay","create","disciple","divine","divinity","dogma","firm","follower","god","goddess","gods","insight","made-up","make","make-believe","mold","outward","philosophy","power","pretend","religion","sculpt","seeming","set","simulacrum","solidify","spirtuality","tenet","time","truth"],"id":178608,"author_id":"Anthony+Ryan"},{"text":"I've survived revolution, war, and over a decade on this continent,' the Burgrave reflected. 'But by all the ghosts of the hundred emperors, I think fatherhood will finally do me in.","author":"Anthony Ryan","tags":["dad","exasperation","exclaim","experience","fatherhood","life","live","reflect","revolution","survive","war"],"id":192132,"author_id":"Anthony+Ryan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":26,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}