{"author":"Holly Bodger","author_id":"Holly+Bodger","total_quotes":6,"quotes":[{"text":"The president is not at all like the powerful icon I imagined her to be. She’s more like I remember Amma: small and delicate with a sari that dances behind her as she walks. Of course, the president is clad in white, the color that shows eternal mourning of a lost child, while Amma never wore white. She wore reds and oranges and deep greens. Colors of celebration, of happiness. Perhaps she wears white now. Now that I am dead to her.","author":"Holly Bodger","tags":["colors","death","longing","mother","mourning"],"id":6747,"author_id":"Holly+Bodger"},{"text":"Have to wait my turn.Have to follow the rules.Have to smile like I agree.Have toHave toHave toHave toChoose him.","author":"Holly Bodger","tags":["choice","rebellion","resignation","sacrifice"],"id":20231,"author_id":"Holly+Bodger"},{"text":"...You see what you wantand you want what you see,but if I have anything to say about it, that willnever beme.","author":"Holly Bodger","tags":["feminism"],"id":165218,"author_id":"Holly+Bodger"},{"text":"We're told to plug our nosesto escape the smells. Manure.Rot.Poverty?Reality.","author":"Holly Bodger","tags":["reality"],"id":265253,"author_id":"Holly+Bodger"},{"text":"My words are like Mummy: butterflies trapped inside a net.","author":"Holly Bodger","tags":["metaphor"],"id":269761,"author_id":"Holly+Bodger"},{"text":"Nani’s allegiance is to her angerandangerruns deeper than blood and skin.It’s set in boneand bone, once broken,neverheals the same.","author":"Holly Bodger","tags":["anger","revenge"],"id":377905,"author_id":"Holly+Bodger"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":6,"pages":1}}