{"author":"Jessie Burton","author_id":"Jessie+Burton","total_quotes":37,"quotes":[{"text":"1887A lifetime isn't enough to know how a person will behave.","author":"Jessie Burton","tags":["human-nature","understanding"],"id":3244,"author_id":"Jessie+Burton"},{"text":"But words are water in Amsterdam, they flood your ears and set the rot, and the church's east corner is crowded.","author":"Jessie Burton","tags":["amsterdam","words"],"id":13184,"author_id":"Jessie+Burton"},{"text":"Love your children, for they are the seeds that will make this city bloom.","author":"Jessie Burton","tags":["amsterdam","golden-age","history","lgbt"],"id":23139,"author_id":"Jessie+Burton"},{"text":"What are we all chasing? Nella wonders. To live, of course. To be unbound from the invisible ropes that Johannes spoke of in his study. Or to be happy in them, at least.","author":"Jessie Burton","tags":["conformity","freedom","happiness"],"id":25481,"author_id":"Jessie+Burton"},{"text":"I feel younger than eighteen but burdened as a eighty-year-old.","author":"Jessie Burton","tags":["amsterdam","golden-age","history","lgbt"],"id":50996,"author_id":"Jessie+Burton"},{"text":"Growing older does not seem to make you more certain. It simply presents you with more reasons for doubt.","author":"Jessie Burton","tags":["growing-up"],"id":96098,"author_id":"Jessie+Burton"},{"text":"In suffering we find our truest selves.","author":"Jessie Burton","tags":["self-discovery","suffering"],"id":99346,"author_id":"Jessie+Burton"},{"text":"Because, Petronella - it's something in his soul. It's something in his soul and you can't get it out.","author":"Jessie Burton","tags":["amsterdam","golden-age","history","lgbt"],"id":135915,"author_id":"Jessie+Burton"},{"text":"From little seeds great flowers grow.","author":"Jessie Burton","tags":["amsterdam","golden-age","history","lgbt"],"id":154096,"author_id":"Jessie+Burton"},{"text":"Nothing here is more fabulous than the truth.","author":"Jessie Burton","tags":["fabulous","life-philosophy","truth"],"id":158650,"author_id":"Jessie+Burton"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":37,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}