{"author":"Jill Alexander Essbaum","author_id":"Jill+Alexander+Essbaum","total_quotes":21,"quotes":[{"text":"Even the loveliest shoulders can bear but so much.","author":"Jill Alexander Essbaum","tags":["stress"],"id":8351,"author_id":"Jill+Alexander+Essbaum"},{"text":"Shames the shadow of love she thought.","author":"Jill Alexander Essbaum","tags":["shame"],"id":21957,"author_id":"Jill+Alexander+Essbaum"},{"text":"But there are times to talk to the dead, times when the dead want to talk.","author":"Jill Alexander Essbaum","tags":["dead"],"id":27976,"author_id":"Jill+Alexander+Essbaum"},{"text":"Four simple chambers.A thousand complicated doors.One of them is yours.","author":"Jill Alexander Essbaum","tags":["doors","love","poem","poetry","the-heart"],"id":37539,"author_id":"Jill+Alexander+Essbaum"},{"text":"There are no accidents, Anna. Everything correlates. Everything connects. Every detail bears a consequence. One instant begets the next. And the next. And the next.","author":"Jill Alexander Essbaum","tags":["coincidence","connectedness","destiny"],"id":95462,"author_id":"Jill+Alexander+Essbaum"},{"text":"Is that not always the case? Given any two people in a relationship, one will always love more, the other less. Right?","author":"Jill Alexander Essbaum","tags":["love","relationship"],"id":117142,"author_id":"Jill+Alexander+Essbaum"},{"text":"There is a correlation between the severity of a person’s moods and a lack of self-knowledge.","author":"Jill Alexander Essbaum","tags":["moods","self-knowledge"],"id":118773,"author_id":"Jill+Alexander+Essbaum"},{"text":"Walling herself off circumvented the risk of real closeness between two people and the eventual, unavoidable loss that always accompanies love. Liberating herself from the concern of others served a sinister purpose as well. There were fewer people to whom Anna was accountable. It’s the easiest way to lie and not get caught: make yourself matter to no one.","author":"Jill Alexander Essbaum","tags":["alone","aloneness"],"id":131318,"author_id":"Jill+Alexander+Essbaum"},{"text":"It doesn’t matter whether you believe in ghosts. The ghosts believe in you.","author":"Jill Alexander Essbaum","tags":["belief","ghosts","thoughtful"],"id":135679,"author_id":"Jill+Alexander+Essbaum"},{"text":"A man can smell a woman's sadness.","author":"Jill Alexander Essbaum","tags":["relationships","sadness"],"id":174139,"author_id":"Jill+Alexander+Essbaum"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":21,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}