{"author":"Elin Hilderbrand","author_id":"Elin+Hilderbrand","total_quotes":10,"quotes":[{"text":"What happened when we died? How were we to know that death wasn't as profound an adventure as life was?","author":"Elin Hilderbrand","tags":["adventure","death"],"id":8447,"author_id":"Elin+Hilderbrand"},{"text":"One is never too young for fine literature . . .","author":"Elin Hilderbrand","tags":["books","literature","reading"],"id":47473,"author_id":"Elin+Hilderbrand"},{"text":"...Every life contains a novel.","author":"Elin Hilderbrand","tags":["books","novels","reading","writing"],"id":86139,"author_id":"Elin+Hilderbrand"},{"text":"Fear gripped her like hands around the neck, the way it could only happen in an unfamiliar room in the pitch black of night.","author":"Elin Hilderbrand","tags":["darkness","fear","night","scared"],"id":102066,"author_id":"Elin+Hilderbrand"},{"text":"Every life contains a novel.","author":"Elin Hilderbrand","tags":["life","novel"],"id":131502,"author_id":"Elin+Hilderbrand"},{"text":"With this in mind, Ava tells herself to be present and celebrate the holiday instead of wishing it was over. After all, one is given only a certain number of Christmases in one's life.","author":"Elin Hilderbrand","tags":["christmas"],"id":213812,"author_id":"Elin+Hilderbrand"},{"text":"I want an ending when the woman is happy instead of good.","author":"Elin Hilderbrand","tags":["book-ending","happy"],"id":257197,"author_id":"Elin+Hilderbrand"},{"text":"Nothing was a natural predator of productive fiction writing like the cell phone. Ditto the laptop. As she had well learned, the laptop could destroy a day.","author":"Elin Hilderbrand","tags":["cell-phone","fiction","laptop","writing"],"id":350830,"author_id":"Elin+Hilderbrand"},{"text":"She had thought that 'depression' would be like sitting in a rocking chair and not being able to make it move. She had thought it would descend over her like a fog, turning things fuzzy, coloring them gray. But depression was active, it paced back and forth wringing its hands. She couldn't stop thinking; she couldn't find her way free from apprehension.","author":"Elin Hilderbrand","tags":["depression"],"id":419476,"author_id":"Elin+Hilderbrand"},{"text":"Meredith immersed herself in the novels. For some reason, fiction hit on the meaning of life so much more concisely than real life itself did.","author":"Elin Hilderbrand","tags":["books","escape","fiction","meaning-of-life","novels","reading","self-awareness","self-realization"],"id":444397,"author_id":"Elin+Hilderbrand"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":10,"pages":1}}