{"author":"Catherine Fisher","author_id":"Catherine+Fisher","total_quotes":13,"quotes":[{"text":"All my years to this momentAll my roads to this wall.All my words to this silenceAll my pride to this fall.-Songs of Sapphique.","author":"Catherine Fisher","tags":["all","moments","obstacles","roads","years"],"id":34957,"author_id":"Catherine+Fisher"},{"text":"I hate her.' Merlin laughed, tossing the stick down. 'Not so. You have forgotten how to love. That's a different sorrow.","author":"Catherine Fisher","tags":["different","forgotten","hate","merlin","sorrow"],"id":173398,"author_id":"Catherine+Fisher"},{"text":":Paintings are easy to see,' he said after a moment. 'Open, presented flat to the eye. Words are not easy. Words have to be discovered, deep in their pages, deciphered, translated, read. Words are symbols to be encoded, their letters trees in a forest, enmeshed, their tangled meanings never finally picked apart.","author":"Catherine Fisher","tags":["forest","meaning","paintings","read","symbols","words"],"id":201576,"author_id":"Catherine+Fisher"},{"text":"Shut up!' Finn turned, furious. 'Look at you both! The only friends I have in this hell and all you can do is fight over me. Do either of you care about me? Not the seer, the fighter, the fool who takes all the risks, but me, Finn?","author":"Catherine Fisher","tags":["fantasy","mystery","young-adult"],"id":224067,"author_id":"Catherine+Fisher"},{"text":"When you draw, you copy the world don't you? You remake it on paper, but it isn't the same. It's yours. No one else could have created it just like that. When I make poems, I use the words we all use, but the order and the sound create a new power. This wood is someone's creation. We stumble through it's tendrils, as if we're crawling through the synapses of his mind.","author":"Catherine Fisher","tags":["create","drawing","imagination","poems","woods","words"],"id":227119,"author_id":"Catherine+Fisher"},{"text":"Understanding’s not enough. Understanding’s from outside; merely a function of the mind. [. . .] To enter, that’s the secret. To become the bridge, to crawl into its sap, to sway with it, to rot over centuries as its heartwood rots. When you are the bridge you will know what the bridge knows. It takes time. A lifetime. And skill.","author":"Catherine Fisher","tags":["insight","philosophy"],"id":249153,"author_id":"Catherine+Fisher"},{"text":"Underground, the stars are legend.","author":"Catherine Fisher","tags":["stars"],"id":260067,"author_id":"Catherine+Fisher"},{"text":"Master, I'm afraid. I am, truly. This place scares me. At home, I know who I am, what to do. I'm the Warden's daughter, I know where I stand. But this is a dangerous place, full of pitfalls. All my life, I've known it was waiting for me, but now I'm not sure I can face it. They'll want to absorb me, make me one of them, and I won't change. I won't! I want to stay me.'Jared sighed and she saw his dark gaze was fixed on the veiled window.'Claudia, you're the bravest person I know. And no one will change you. You will rule here, though it won't be easy...","author":"Catherine Fisher","tags":["afraid","brave"],"id":282421,"author_id":"Catherine+Fisher"},{"text":"And what would they be scared of? There's nothing to fear in a perfect world, is there?","author":"Catherine Fisher","tags":["books","dystopian","incarceron"],"id":326132,"author_id":"Catherine+Fisher"},{"text":"I have walked a stair of swords,I have worn a coat of scars.I have vowed with hollow words,I have lied my way to the stars-Songs of Sapphique.","author":"Catherine Fisher","tags":["journey","lies","scars","stars"],"id":339996,"author_id":"Catherine+Fisher"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":13,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}