{"author":"Katherine Catmull","author_id":"Katherine+Catmull","total_quotes":14,"quotes":[{"text":"A nursery rhyme shapes your bones and nerves, and it shapes your mind. They are powerful, nursery rhymes, and immensely old, and not toys, even though they are for children.' 'But they make no sense!' Summer protested 'Ah, well,' said Ben. 'Sometimes sense hides behind walls. You must find a window and stick your head right in before you can see it.","author":"Katherine Catmull","tags":["bird","children","nursery-rhyme","nursery-rhymes","sense","shapes","summer"],"id":15708,"author_id":"Katherine+Catmull"},{"text":"Seeing is 'making,' whether you see with your mind or your true self. Try to see with your self, your self and your beast together, and not your busy, frightened mind.","author":"Katherine Catmull","tags":["creating","dreaming","seeing"],"id":90949,"author_id":"Katherine+Catmull"},{"text":"That is what I love best about dreams, and about makings, good makings. They are folded-up buds of complications and mysteries, and if you stay with them patiently, they will unfold and unfold, and never stop unfolding. Dreams are flowers that never stop blooming.","author":"Katherine Catmull","tags":["dreams"],"id":125845,"author_id":"Katherine+Catmull"},{"text":"You don't drown because you can't breathe. You drown because you try to breathe what is not breathable.","author":"Katherine Catmull","tags":["drowning","spirit"],"id":168585,"author_id":"Katherine+Catmull"},{"text":"She was only half Bird now, and the other half song. She liked it that way.","author":"Katherine Catmull","tags":["bird","half","song"],"id":193912,"author_id":"Katherine+Catmull"},{"text":"Finn said, “You feel the wind is a bully, beating you. But that is your seeing. That is your story, not the wind’s. To a bird who rides it, that wind is only a kind hand. Because the bird rides the wind’s power. Do you understand?” Clare, bitter, cold, and wind-battered, frowned stubbornly. “But a bird can fly. I can’t fly.” He turned to look at her, and his face was troubled. “If you cling to the safety of the rock, indeed you can’t. To fly, you open your arms and fall, heart first, trusting the wind to bear you up. That’s what the birds do.","author":"Katherine Catmull","tags":["flying","letting-go","releasing-fear","releasing-the-past"],"id":217869,"author_id":"Katherine+Catmull"},{"text":"And I love everything on this changing, burning earth, but I am most grateful to you.","author":"Katherine Catmull","tags":["earth","gratefulness","love"],"id":261067,"author_id":"Katherine+Catmull"},{"text":"She wasn't a cruel Bird. But her heart ached so badly for these sad, broken birds that, just as the Puppeteer had planned, she had begun to hate them. She hated them for making her feel so wretched, when she should be happiest. That happens sometimes.","author":"Katherine Catmull","tags":["birds","broken","cruelty","hate","sad"],"id":265753,"author_id":"Katherine+Catmull"},{"text":"Well, I don't care,' said Bird out loud, said Bird, who cared so much that she couldn't bear to touch the hurt. 'I don't care. I ran away from Summer, and I will make my own castle. I will be my own queen.","author":"Katherine Catmull","tags":["caring","castle","hurt","queen"],"id":305286,"author_id":"Katherine+Catmull"},{"text":"The bird music sank into her, like a song you used to know but forgot long ago. You hear a piano play it some day, and for a minute you feel a happy pain, but you don't know why. Bird felt like that.","author":"Katherine Catmull","tags":["birds","forgetting","music","song"],"id":318991,"author_id":"Katherine+Catmull"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":14,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}