{"author":"Janet Fitch","author_id":"Janet+Fitch","total_quotes":92,"quotes":[{"text":"I know it feels like you have all these options and when you make a decision, you lose a world of possibilities. But the reality is, until you make a decision, you have nothing at all.","author":"Janet Fitch","tags":["choices","life","possibility"],"id":4100,"author_id":"Janet+Fitch"},{"text":"I wanted to freeze this moment forever, the chimes, the slight splash of the water, the chink of the dogs’ leashes, laughter from the pool, the skritch of my mother’s dip-pen, the smell of the trees, the stillness. I wished I could shut it in a locket to wear around my neck. I wished a sleep would find us, at this absolute second, like sleep over the castle of sleeping beauty.","author":"Janet Fitch","tags":["happiness","moments"],"id":4213,"author_id":"Janet+Fitch"},{"text":"A person didn’t need to be beautiful, they just needed to be loved. But I couldn’t help wanting it. If that was the way I could be loved, to be beautiful, I’d take it.","author":"Janet Fitch","tags":["women"],"id":13767,"author_id":"Janet+Fitch"},{"text":"The cake had a trick candle that wouldn't go out, so I didn't get my wish. Which was just that it would always be like this, that my life could be a party just for me.","author":"Janet Fitch","tags":["birthday","happiness","hope","sentimentality","wishes","wishing"],"id":19593,"author_id":"Janet+Fitch"},{"text":"She laughed so easily when she was happy. But also when she was sad.","author":"Janet Fitch","tags":["sadness"],"id":24473,"author_id":"Janet+Fitch"},{"text":"Marvel hates her because she's pretty and doesn't have any kids to worry about.","author":"Janet Fitch","tags":["envy","gossip"],"id":30939,"author_id":"Janet+Fitch"},{"text":"Her fingers moved among barnacles and mussels, blue-black, sharp-edged. Neon red starfish were limp Dalis on the rocks, surrounded by bouquets of stinging anemones and purple bursts of spiny sea urchins.","author":"Janet Fitch","tags":["color","neon","sea"],"id":47032,"author_id":"Janet+Fitch"},{"text":"I took the volume to a table, opened its soft, ivory pages... And fell into it as into a pool during dry season.","author":"Janet Fitch","tags":["books","reading"],"id":47114,"author_id":"Janet+Fitch"},{"text":"I couldn't imagine owning beauty like my mothers. I wouldn't dare.","author":"Janet Fitch","tags":["beauty","dare","mother"],"id":53811,"author_id":"Janet+Fitch"},{"text":"Nobody had forgotten anything here. In Berlin, you had to wrestle with the past, you had to build on the ruins, inside them. It wasn't like America where we scraped the earth clean, thinking we could start again every time. ","author":"Janet Fitch","tags":["america","berlin","canvas","clean","empty","forgotten","learn","past","remembering","ruins"],"id":64870,"author_id":"Janet+Fitch"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":92,"pages":10,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}