{"author":"Cath Crowley","author_id":"Cath+Crowley","total_quotes":38,"quotes":[{"text":"You can't drive them around in the getaway van.' 'How about we don't call it the getaway van? People might get suspicious.' 'So what should we call it?' 'How about the van?' 'It doesn't change what it is and that it's a shitty thing to do. Someone might see them in it.","author":"Cath Crowley","tags":["humor","sarcasm"],"id":8722,"author_id":"Cath+Crowley"},{"text":"The past is with me; the present is here. The future is unmapped and changeable. Ours for the imagining: spreading out before us. Sunlight filled, deep blue, and the darkness.","author":"Cath Crowley","tags":["hope"],"id":34643,"author_id":"Cath+Crowley"},{"text":"How can I explain to her that I just can't come home? It's too soon, it's too late; I do want to be with Helen every second of the day but at the same time I don't want to be with her at all. I want to have back what I felt at the beginning. I could no more leave her then than leave my arms or legs. How do you find the beginning, though? There are no roads or signs. You start to doubt it even exists. The hardest thing isn't deciding that I want to go back to when Helen and Gracie and I were us. The most difficult thing is finding the map to get there.","author":"Cath Crowley","tags":["change","divorce","love"],"id":39297,"author_id":"Cath+Crowley"},{"text":"Love and romance are things worth waiting for.","author":"Cath Crowley","tags":["graffiti","love","romance","teenagers"],"id":47987,"author_id":"Cath+Crowley"},{"text":"I love lying here with you, under the books.","author":"Cath Crowley","tags":["books","bookshop","love","romance"],"id":62747,"author_id":"Cath+Crowley"},{"text":"If my like for you was a football crowd, you’d be deaf ’cause of the roar. And if my like for you was a boxer, there’d be a dead guy lying on the floor. And if my like for you was sugar, you’d lose your teeth before you were twenty. And if my like for you was money, let’s just say you’d be spending plenty.","author":"Cath Crowley","tags":["love","poetry","sweet-talk"],"id":66655,"author_id":"Cath+Crowley"},{"text":"Being different is the only way to live.","author":"Cath Crowley","tags":["different","living","special"],"id":82291,"author_id":"Cath+Crowley"},{"text":"I spent the weekend after our date wishing I could stab him with my fluffy-duck pen and staring at the phone hoping he'd call. Dating is a very tricky business.","author":"Cath Crowley","tags":["dating","teen"],"id":87924,"author_id":"Cath+Crowley"},{"text":"I'll never throw these small things away. There will never be a time when I don't want them, all the tiny parts of Cal that made a life.","author":"Cath Crowley","tags":["grief"],"id":88275,"author_id":"Cath+Crowley"},{"text":"That's what we think because we can't imagine what it's like to not exist.","author":"Cath Crowley","tags":["afterlife","death"],"id":95394,"author_id":"Cath+Crowley"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":38,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}