{"author":"Erin Bow","author_id":"Erin+Bow","total_quotes":25,"quotes":[{"text":"Your shadow is bought and paid for, and your death will not remit that payment. You can go shadowless into the shadowless world, and your death will only be one last dark thing on my long dark road. It will hurt me but I do not care. It is all but over.","author":"Erin Bow","tags":["bargain","danger","death","despair","evil","trade"],"id":11541,"author_id":"Erin+Bow"},{"text":"It's true that when you read YA you rarely have to read about middle-aged men having affairs. Personally I consider that a plus.","author":"Erin Bow","tags":["affairs","reading","ya","young-adult-books"],"id":12920,"author_id":"Erin+Bow"},{"text":"Behjet eased the horse forward again. 'The harvest is failing. There will be no crop at all if this rain doesn't stop - not even hay.'The rain. The rain she'd been so grateful for, the rain that concealed the warping of her shadow. It was going to kill people.","author":"Erin Bow","tags":["famine","guilt","natural-disaster","rain","realization","unnatural-disaster"],"id":30025,"author_id":"Erin+Bow"},{"text":"She was dry. She was lying on something soft. She was wrapped in quilts. There was a star of light drifting above her, and a smell like a herb garden. Taggle was a long warmth stretched out at one side, his chin in her hand, his tail curled over her neck. She thought they might be in heaven.Taggle farted.Plain Kate coughed and sneezed. And then she really was awake.","author":"Erin Bow","tags":["comfort","comfortable","flatulence","rude-awakening","sleepy"],"id":43427,"author_id":"Erin+Bow"},{"text":"They're gone. I let them chase me. I led them like a sunbeam and vanished like a shadow.","author":"Erin Bow","tags":["chase","chasing","escape","pursuit","vanish"],"id":50301,"author_id":"Erin+Bow"},{"text":"Taggle was absorbed in the meat pie. ‘It’s covered in BREAD,’ he huffed. ‘What fool has covered MEAT with BREAD?","author":"Erin Bow","tags":["humorous"],"id":55210,"author_id":"Erin+Bow"},{"text":"Be brave. Things will find their shape.","author":"Erin Bow","tags":["bravery"],"id":76873,"author_id":"Erin+Bow"},{"text":"Fantasy elevates ordinary and eternal problems of young people into stories via the language of myth. It turns “No one really knows me” into “I’ve got a secret identity.” It turns “I don’t understand why other people act the way they do” into “I’m trapped in a faerie realm.” It turns “my high school must have been built over the mouth of hell” into “my high school must have been built over the mouth of hell.” There are certain things in life that are glorious, and they are glorious for everyone. There are more that are hard, and they are hard for everyone. We like to see these things retold, but with dragons.","author":"Erin Bow","tags":["dragons","fantasy","inspirational","writing"],"id":117437,"author_id":"Erin+Bow"},{"text":"Her father sat her down and spoke to her with great seriousness. 'You are not a witch, Katerina. There is magic in the world, and some of it is wholesome, and some of it is not, but it is a thing that is in the blood, and it is not in yours.'The foolish will always treat you badly, because they think you are not beautiful,' he said, and she knew this was true. Plain Kate. She was a plain as a stick and thin as a stick and flat as a stick. Her nose was too long and her brows too strong. Her father kissed her twice, once above each brow. 'We cannot help what fools think. But understand, it is your skill with a blade that draws this talk. If you want to give up your carving, you have my blessing.'I will never give it up,' she answered.","author":"Erin Bow","tags":["advice","appearence","daughter","determination","father","looks","talent","taunting","unkindness"],"id":123659,"author_id":"Erin+Bow"},{"text":"No, blowing up cities doesn't work, not in the long term. You've got to find something that the people in charge aren't willing to give up. A price they aren't willing to pay.Which leads us to Talis's first rule for stopping wars: make it personal.","author":"Erin Bow","tags":["peace","rules","war"],"id":143011,"author_id":"Erin+Bow"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":25,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}