{"author":"Meia Geddes","author_id":"Meia+Geddes","total_quotes":23,"quotes":[{"text":"I let quiet shape what I say, then realize there is nothing that can be fully said—the reason for gestures and eyes and art. Always something waiting, wanting, expectant, yet also curiously not.","author":"Meia Geddes","tags":["art","quiet","silence"],"id":7746,"author_id":"Meia+Geddes"},{"text":"Cutting down a wall, the wall sawyer could feel the tension in a home ease and something windy rush in circles round her feet. It was addictive, each a sweet victory of art. The tumbling motion of a falling wall was like a volcanic eruption fading into a mountain of roses. The wall sawyer felt a loving animosity toward walls. “You must pay attention to your obsessions, where life and love intersect,” she told the little queen.","author":"Meia Geddes","tags":["addictions","art","life","love","obsessions","roses","walls"],"id":45979,"author_id":"Meia+Geddes"},{"text":"Maybe all you need to do is find the heartbeat in everything. And if writing is living, the discovery of the beat of a heart, then when you read me, you are living by my side.","author":"Meia Geddes","tags":["heartbeat","life","living","reading","writing"],"id":56274,"author_id":"Meia+Geddes"},{"text":"Whenever she felt at home, there always seemed to be love floating about on the edges of things.","author":"Meia Geddes","tags":["fairytale","home","love","novella"],"id":78408,"author_id":"Meia+Geddes"},{"text":"The most perfect solitude must entail the absence of all beings, but it must also tremble with the light of life. For example, a perfect solitude may find itself haunted by lives born of the imagination, characters lying on shelves in rows of books, or accompanied by figures waiting in dreams. The perfect solitude pushes one to sense the pulse of solitude itself; for example, a perfect solitude may be marked with the beat of one’s heart.","author":"Meia Geddes","tags":["life","solitude"],"id":92206,"author_id":"Meia+Geddes"},{"text":"I wonder how much space I take up, if a thought can take up secondary space.","author":"Meia Geddes","tags":["space","thought"],"id":94656,"author_id":"Meia+Geddes"},{"text":"I would like to do more in appreciating the mindset of the child. Maybe it has something to do with taking ourselves very seriously and with great disregard, as well as having a healthy does of awe and doubt for all else.","author":"Meia Geddes","tags":["adults","awe","childhood","children","doubt"],"id":103917,"author_id":"Meia+Geddes"},{"text":"In this summer heat, I must remember that the realest things are the closest and farthest away, like the warmth found in winter: the heat hidden in the folds of one's coat, a lost floating breath, a kiss across the distance of zero degrees.","author":"Meia Geddes","tags":["floating-breaths","kisses-across-distance","summer","winter"],"id":105279,"author_id":"Meia+Geddes"},{"text":"The little queen lived in a world where the sky swirled like the sea and nothing was itself for very long. Everything looked to be in brushstrokes.","author":"Meia Geddes","tags":["beauty","fairy-tale","novella","the-world"],"id":110768,"author_id":"Meia+Geddes"},{"text":"The little queen’s mother and father had said that she would live on, for a long time, and that her tears would magnify the life around her forever more, but they had not explained how she should go about going on.","author":"Meia Geddes","tags":["death-and-dying","fairytale","fairytales","love","novella","queens"],"id":114911,"author_id":"Meia+Geddes"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":23,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}