{"author":"Mary Ellen Hannibal","author_id":"Mary+Ellen+Hannibal","total_quotes":4,"quotes":[{"text":"I was always observing. Even while talking, living, going through every motion, I was watching myself and the situation. That's a writer. Always observing.","author":"Mary Ellen Hannibal","tags":["observation","writers","writing-process"],"id":59821,"author_id":"Mary+Ellen+Hannibal"},{"text":"The sky seemed abruptly to have had enough of my dithering and dramatically lightened up around the glowing moon, which retreated like an aging sovereign before the rising sun.","author":"Mary Ellen Hannibal","tags":["nature","similes"],"id":210747,"author_id":"Mary+Ellen+Hannibal"},{"text":"Between the beach and the big breaking waves about a quarter mile off was a stretch of bumpy, glistening reef, its usual blanket of water pulled back by a celestial hand.","author":"Mary Ellen Hannibal","tags":["metaphors","nature"],"id":237984,"author_id":"Mary+Ellen+Hannibal"},{"text":"Everything was insanely alive, now you see it, now you don't. I thought, it's the light, it's the water, it's changing every second, it's always doing this whether I'm here to witness it or not.","author":"Mary Ellen Hannibal","tags":["nature"],"id":379873,"author_id":"Mary+Ellen+Hannibal"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":4,"pages":1}}