{"author":"Jeff Zentner","author_id":"Jeff+Zentner","total_quotes":15,"quotes":[{"text":"That wouldn't be a bad way to die...Giving off light for millions of years after you're gone.","author":"Jeff Zentner","tags":["bad","die","gone","good","inspirational","star","stars","year"],"id":1446,"author_id":"Jeff+Zentner"},{"text":"What you call pride, I call courage.","author":"Jeff Zentner","tags":["courage","pride"],"id":18886,"author_id":"Jeff+Zentner"},{"text":"There are books stacked high around them - the way opportunity and possibility are stacked around them.","author":"Jeff Zentner","tags":["opportunity"],"id":34423,"author_id":"Jeff+Zentner"},{"text":"Wanting to believe something is powerful.","author":"Jeff Zentner","tags":["believe"],"id":94651,"author_id":"Jeff+Zentner"},{"text":"She's it. She's my everything. She's the standard by which I'll judge beauty for the rest of my life. I'll measure every touch to her breath on my skin. Every voice to her voice. Every mind to her mind. My measure of perfection. The name carved into me. If I could, I would lie with her under these stars until my heart burst.","author":"Jeff Zentner","tags":["beautiful","beauty","friend","friendship","heart","love","mind","perfect","perfection","romantic","soulmate","standard","stars","voice"],"id":145192,"author_id":"Jeff+Zentner"},{"text":"So when I watch trains, it makes me think about how much movement there is in the world. How every train has dozens of cars and every car has hundreds of parts, and all those parts and cars work day after day. And then there are all these other motions. People are born and die. Seasons change. Rivers flow to the sea. Earth circles the sun and the moon circles Earth. Everything whirring and spinning toward something. And I get to be part of it for a little while, the way I get to watch a train for a minute or two, and then it's gone.","author":"Jeff Zentner","tags":["cars","earth","gone","life","live-in-the-moment","minute","moon","motions","movement","parts","people","river","season","sun","time","trains"],"id":234915,"author_id":"Jeff+Zentner"},{"text":"Stick to the key of C, dude. No sharps or flats. More forgiving.","author":"Jeff Zentner","tags":["music"],"id":257659,"author_id":"Jeff+Zentner"},{"text":"We are a fallen species, spitting on the gift of salvation. Humanity is irredeemable.","author":"Jeff Zentner","tags":["humanity"],"id":267535,"author_id":"Jeff+Zentner"},{"text":"Writing is something that you can learn only by doing. To become a writer, you need an imagination, which you clearly have. You need to read books, which you clearly do. And you need to write, which you don't yet do, but should.","author":"Jeff Zentner","tags":["book","books","imagination","learn","read","write","writing"],"id":324177,"author_id":"Jeff+Zentner"},{"text":"Music was the only beautiful thing he owned.","author":"Jeff Zentner","tags":["music"],"id":341851,"author_id":"Jeff+Zentner"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":15,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}