{"author":"Belinda Jeffrey","author_id":"Belinda+Jeffrey","total_quotes":16,"quotes":[{"text":"I knew I'd never have another moment like this. Just a single place in time where everything had come together to breathe in harmony. Time slowed and I had gathered all her restless strands in my hands; where I had come from, where I was and where I was going was one long thread as I emerged to make my way into the world.","author":"Belinda Jeffrey","tags":["emerged","harmony","moment","one-long-thread","restless","time","world"],"id":2260,"author_id":"Belinda+Jeffrey"},{"text":"I was thinking how complicated life is and how there are no simple roads or paths. We are a fabric of mistakes and hurts; a family tree of fumbled attempts, successes and failures.","author":"Belinda Jeffrey","tags":["attempts","complicated","fabric","failures","family-tree","hurts","life","mistakes","path","road","simple","successes"],"id":9744,"author_id":"Belinda+Jeffrey"},{"text":"Creativity and ideas fired between every synapse underneath my skin and I felt radiant from the inside out.","author":"Belinda Jeffrey","tags":["creativity","ideas","radiant","skin"],"id":9766,"author_id":"Belinda+Jeffrey"},{"text":"If we were rational creatures we would never get out of bed or live or love.","author":"Belinda Jeffrey","tags":["get-out-of-bed","live","love","rational-creatures"],"id":26592,"author_id":"Belinda+Jeffrey"},{"text":"But sometimes I wanted to feel like a child, to know that he would stand in front of me while waves crashed towards us or arrows come at us.","author":"Belinda Jeffrey","tags":["child","father","protect"],"id":174788,"author_id":"Belinda+Jeffrey"},{"text":"If there was some way of knowing which boys were likely to turn out to be decent men, boys that could love us back as passionately as we felt we could love them, then we could banish the likelihood of divorce and unhappiness to a statistically unlikely outcome.","author":"Belinda Jeffrey","tags":["boys","decent","divorce","love","men","outcome","unhappiness"],"id":196907,"author_id":"Belinda+Jeffrey"},{"text":"I could feel their grief as if it were a beast holding us down.","author":"Belinda Jeffrey","tags":["beast","grief"],"id":237474,"author_id":"Belinda+Jeffrey"},{"text":"Her smile could wash away a thousand doubts as soon as light up a room.","author":"Belinda Jeffrey","tags":["doubts","light-up-a-room","smile"],"id":277447,"author_id":"Belinda+Jeffrey"},{"text":"When I was young I wanted so much to be like her. What a blessing are those moments when there is nothing to worry about, no thought of trouble or grief in the world.","author":"Belinda Jeffrey","tags":["blessing","grief","moments","trouble","world","worry","young"],"id":278811,"author_id":"Belinda+Jeffrey"},{"text":"Don't you find it strange that your mother would leave you?' Becky said. 'I can't imagine my other leaving me.'I'd never thought of it like that before. 'I don't think she knew what else to do.","author":"Belinda Jeffrey","tags":["leave","mother"],"id":279293,"author_id":"Belinda+Jeffrey"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":16,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}