{"author":"Fernando A. Torres","author_id":"Fernando+A.+Torres","total_quotes":6,"quotes":[{"text":"Benefit is the only blindfold required to convince ourselves that poison is wine. Liberty's comfort level rises and falls with the sympathies of its children. Well, I for one will not collaborate.","author":"Fernando A. Torres","tags":["denial","freedom","liberty"],"id":9837,"author_id":"Fernando+A.+Torres"},{"text":"Mirrors are useless for reflecting who you are.","author":"Fernando A. Torres","tags":["character","looks-don-t-matter","mirror","self-esteem"],"id":20797,"author_id":"Fernando+A.+Torres"},{"text":"Ian looked skyward to see the firedrake soaring overhead. Its mass was a black deluge, an eclipse of aberrant origins, and its wings were tautly wound, like a spider’s web. Scales that shown like bejeweled armor glistened upon its body. Its tail crashed against the air; the storm surge of an impetuous sea. The shadow it cast was an aperture of dementia that ripped asunder the sanity of those who watched. Astride the beast’s spine, rode a figure that resembled a man, but with such grandeur at his disposal, appeared a living god.","author":"Fernando A. Torres","tags":["dragons","fantasy","flying"],"id":95166,"author_id":"Fernando+A.+Torres"},{"text":"One just voice is greater than an army.","author":"Fernando A. Torres","tags":["army","justice","righteousness","war"],"id":95810,"author_id":"Fernando+A.+Torres"},{"text":"To what do I attribute our decline? It's far easier to be shocking than charming.","author":"Fernando A. Torres","tags":["charm","charming","civilization","culture","quote"],"id":160468,"author_id":"Fernando+A.+Torres"},{"text":"Indifference is a well that never runs dry, and as good a word for evil as was ever composed.","author":"Fernando A. Torres","tags":["evil","indifference"],"id":391883,"author_id":"Fernando+A.+Torres"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":6,"pages":1}}