{"author":"James Anderson","author_id":"James+Anderson","total_quotes":18,"quotes":[{"text":"We thought we'd seen it all. The real horror of war is always waiting for you at home. It's waiting, I tell you. We were so damned happy when we got back. We'd made it. We survived. But it's always waiting. Waiting. You let down your guard. And there it is. You can't ever let up. Give up.","author":"James Anderson","tags":["ptsd","war"],"id":13002,"author_id":"James+Anderson"},{"text":"If someone you love asks you to give up something you love, don't do it.","author":"James Anderson","tags":["love","regret","regrets","relationships","sacrifice","sacrifices"],"id":21218,"author_id":"James+Anderson"},{"text":"In all those stories about people who sold their souls to the devil, I never quite understood why the devil was the bad guy, or why it was okay to screw him out of his soul. They got what they wanted: fame, money, love, whatever—though usually it turned out not to be what they really wanted or expected. Was that the devil's fault? I never thought so. Like John Wayne said, 'Life's tough. It's even tougher when you're stupid.","author":"James Anderson","tags":["be-careful-what-you-wish-for","deal-with-the-devil","devil","faustian","faustian-bargain","life","sold-my-soul","sold-your-soul","soul","stupid","wish"],"id":48548,"author_id":"James+Anderson"},{"text":"This was the desert, everything all at once, whether it was needed or not. What survived had learned to save, live carefully, and keep a low profile, even appear to be dead for long periods. Perseverance and patience.","author":"James Anderson","tags":["dead","desert","patience","patient","perseverance","persevere","survival","survive","utah"],"id":83556,"author_id":"James+Anderson"},{"text":"Like a carpenter with two broken legs at the bottom of a beautiful staircase. Maybe I can't climb the stairs, ma'am, but at least let me admire the workmanship.","author":"James Anderson","tags":["beauty","carpentry","relationships"],"id":89664,"author_id":"James+Anderson"},{"text":"My instinct told me that she didn't want me to understand. What she felt and lived with couldn't be shared or understood by anyone else.","author":"James Anderson","tags":["experience","feel","felt","live","personal","relationships","understand","understood"],"id":101587,"author_id":"James+Anderson"},{"text":"Of the few certainties I've come across in life, one of them is that when a person says money is no object, the opposite is most likely true. Money is the only object—or will be.","author":"James Anderson","tags":["money"],"id":110298,"author_id":"James+Anderson"},{"text":"Men were often far different in their roles as fathers than they were as suitors, the memories of which kept them, out of necessity, both vigilant and violent, and even in tender moments, to their daughters.","author":"James Anderson","tags":["dating","family","father-daughter","father-daughter-relationship","fatherhood","memory","parenting","relationships"],"id":123467,"author_id":"James+Anderson"},{"text":"Like every other house-renting, paycheck-to-paycheck, heel dragging working American, it wouldn't matter if I stepped in it by accident or was pushed, or simply whiffed it as I walked by. With the powers in play, guilt or innocence had nothing to do with anything.","author":"James Anderson","tags":["blue-collar","guilt","innocence","power","rich","stepped-in-it","trouble","wealth"],"id":135968,"author_id":"James+Anderson"},{"text":"History has a way of chasing gravity just like water, feeding into other parts of itself to become something else, something larger and grander, until the one pure thing it was no longer exists.","author":"James Anderson","tags":["fiction","gravity","history","stories","story","water"],"id":160707,"author_id":"James+Anderson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":18,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}