{"author":"Jonathan Renshaw","author_id":"Jonathan+Renshaw","total_quotes":19,"quotes":[{"text":"Uh, I really didn't mean to disturb you.''I sincerely hope that is untrue. If you arrived here with no objective capable of disturbing me then you arrived with no objective at all, and you will have succeeded in disturbing me without purpose.","author":"Jonathan Renshaw","tags":["disturb","hope","meaning","need","objective","purpose"],"id":10228,"author_id":"Jonathan+Renshaw"},{"text":"I would rather be the person who steps in front of a whole gang to defend someone and gets beaten up for it than the person who watches from a safe hiding. There were times I hid, and I think the shame hurts more than the bruises would have.","author":"Jonathan Renshaw","tags":["courage"],"id":22130,"author_id":"Jonathan+Renshaw"},{"text":"Unless the inquiry has been so exhaustive as to explore every possibility, the lack of evidence should never be used to ground a statement of fact. Unlikelihood certainly, but no more. A prematurely assumed fact blocks further inquiry.","author":"Jonathan Renshaw","tags":["doubt","evidence","fact","inquiry","possibility","possible","premature","question","test"],"id":132122,"author_id":"Jonathan+Renshaw"},{"text":"Aedan had never felt embarrassed about his imagination. Without it there was no magic.","author":"Jonathan Renshaw","tags":["imagination"],"id":153772,"author_id":"Jonathan+Renshaw"},{"text":"A mystery is so much more exciting than a wrapped up answer...A mystery carries on but an answer just ends.","author":"Jonathan Renshaw","tags":["answer","better","contemplate","end","good","mystery","thing"],"id":154205,"author_id":"Jonathan+Renshaw"},{"text":"Without imagination, things were only as they appeared - and that was blindness. Things were more than they appeared, so much more. When he considered an oak tree, it was not just a tree. To someone small, like an ant, it was a whole landscape of rugged barky cliffs and big green leaf-plains that quaked when the sky was restless, a place of many strange creatures where fearsome winged beasts could pluck and devour someone in a blink.","author":"Jonathan Renshaw","tags":["ant","appear","appearance","beholder","blink","deception","decieve","exciting","eyes","imagination","imagine","more","scary","strange","surreal","think","though","tree","truth"],"id":219508,"author_id":"Jonathan+Renshaw"},{"text":"You would think,' Aedan said, 'that I'd feel good about this-I've grown while he, my old enemy, has shrunk. Yet all I feel is a terrible ache. I pity him, that he has been called by age to surrender his strength.","author":"Jonathan Renshaw","tags":["age","bad","change","effect","good","pity","strong","surrender","think","time","weak"],"id":246147,"author_id":"Jonathan+Renshaw"},{"text":"Maybe it’s the quiet,” Aedan resumed. “Let’s me think, or maybe it’s the opposite of normal thinking, more like untangling. I’m comfortable in those spots.","author":"Jonathan Renshaw","tags":["quiet","think"],"id":262687,"author_id":"Jonathan+Renshaw"},{"text":"I always hated...All sad songs. I thought they made happy people miserable. Now I think I understand them better. Bards write them because they can't hold them back. Sadness has got to flow out or it gets stuck and turns bitter.","author":"Jonathan Renshaw","tags":["bard","bitter","happy","lyrics","miserable","people","sad","sadness","song","time","understand","write"],"id":272774,"author_id":"Jonathan+Renshaw"},{"text":"You!' Skeet bellowed.When uttered with just the right tone, this is the universal name for any boy. Accordingly, all heads snapped towards the angry master.","author":"Jonathan Renshaw","tags":["anger","angry","attention","boy","boys","men","mischief","name","tone","yell","you"],"id":286372,"author_id":"Jonathan+Renshaw"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":19,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}