{"author":"Maureen Johnson","author_id":"Maureen+Johnson","total_quotes":44,"quotes":[{"text":"I knew it was beautiful, but knowing something is beautiful and caring about it are two very different things, and I didn't care.","author":"Maureen Johnson","tags":["caring-for-others","sarcasm"],"id":803,"author_id":"Maureen+Johnson"},{"text":"Claim whatever you want. Say you only want a happy family or a successful career or a big house. I say: no, that's not what you want. You'll settle for those things, but you really want a monkey that does your evil bidding. Pullman is a genius just for this.","author":"Maureen Johnson","tags":["essay","humor","monkeys"],"id":3281,"author_id":"Maureen+Johnson"},{"text":"Lecturing Brooks was as useful as lecturing a cat.","author":"Maureen Johnson","tags":["cats"],"id":4859,"author_id":"Maureen+Johnson"},{"text":"People were freaked out, but they showed it in weird ways. Back home, people would have been weeping and doing a lot of very public group hugs. At Wexford people just aggressively pretended nothing had happened.","author":"Maureen Johnson","tags":["avoidance","grief"],"id":33128,"author_id":"Maureen+Johnson"},{"text":"It was as if the news itself wanted to reassure me. Even Jack the Ripper himself had reappeared as part of the greeting committee.","author":"Maureen Johnson","tags":["jack-the-ripper","maureen-johnson","the-name-of-the-star","ya","young-adult"],"id":33719,"author_id":"Maureen+Johnson"},{"text":"I felt so alone on that train... A weird, unnatural kind of alone that bore into me. It was feeling just beyond fear and somewhere to the left of sadness.","author":"Maureen Johnson","tags":["alone","sadness","the-express-jubilee"],"id":37453,"author_id":"Maureen+Johnson"},{"text":"It just seemed like telling the truth would mean admitting some weakness.","author":"Maureen Johnson","tags":["self-realization"],"id":44481,"author_id":"Maureen+Johnson"},{"text":"Maybe this was what Aunt Peg meant all along - returning was a weird thing. You can never visit the same place twice. Each time, it's a different story. By the very act of coming back, you wipe our what came before.","author":"Maureen Johnson","tags":["change","moving-on","returning"],"id":51355,"author_id":"Maureen+Johnson"},{"text":"Shame is like melting. You can actually feel your muscles sag and drop, as if your body is preparing you to crawl, or possibly ooze, to the nearest exit.","author":"Maureen Johnson","tags":["shame"],"id":69189,"author_id":"Maureen+Johnson"},{"text":"I'm done. I'm going to go to bed and read important books about theater.'It would would be easier if you just said porn,' Scarlett said.'No idea what you're talking about. But knock first if you need me.","author":"Maureen Johnson","tags":["funny"],"id":71373,"author_id":"Maureen+Johnson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":44,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}