{"author":"Elizabeth Bowen","author_id":"Elizabeth+Bowen","total_quotes":45,"quotes":[{"text":"Proust has pointed out that the predisposition to love creates it's own objects: is this not also true of fear?","author":"Elizabeth Bowen","tags":["anxiety","about","future"],"id":715,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Bowen"},{"text":"A romantic man often feels more uplifted with two women than with one: his love seems to hit the ideal mark somewhere between two different faces.","author":"Elizabeth Bowen","tags":["humor","men","romance"],"id":32132,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Bowen"},{"text":"Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.","author":"Elizabeth Bowen","tags":["nobody","something","must "],"id":49370,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Bowen"},{"text":"In big houses in which things are done properly  there is always the religious element. The diurnal cycle is observed with more feeling when there are servants to do the work.","author":"Elizabeth Bowen","tags":["wealth"],"id":63467,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Bowen"},{"text":"With three or more people there is something bold in the air: direct things get said which would frighten two people alone and conscious of each inch of their nearness to one another. To be three is to be in public - you feel safe.","author":"Elizabeth Bowen","tags":["relationship"],"id":75713,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Bowen"},{"text":"When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.","author":"Elizabeth Bowen","tags":["love","start","you "],"id":89046,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Bowen"},{"text":"With three or more people there is something bold in the air: direct things get said which would frighten two people alone and conscious of each inch of their nearness to one another. To be three is to be in public - you feel safe.","author":"Elizabeth Bowen","tags":["relationship"],"id":103153,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Bowen"},{"text":"If they should only be ill,' she said, 'there would be so many little things we could do for them. It does seem in a kind of a way an opportunity. I often think it is only when a man is ill that he understands what a woman means in his life.","author":"Elizabeth Bowen","tags":["men","women"],"id":109087,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Bowen"},{"text":"If you look at life one way  there is always cause for alarm.","author":"Elizabeth Bowen","tags":["positive"],"id":113545,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Bowen"},{"text":"And because no one answered or cared and a conversation went on without her she felt profoundly lonely, suspecting once more for herself a particular doom of exclusion. Something of the trees in their intimacy of shadow was shared by the husband and wife and their host in the tree-shadowed room. She thought of love with its gift of importance. 'I must break in on all this,' she thought as she looked around the room.","author":"Elizabeth Bowen","tags":["exclusion","loneliness","love"],"id":113695,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Bowen"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":45,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}