{"author":"Michael R. French","author_id":"Michael+R.+French","total_quotes":17,"quotes":[{"text":"What's real and what's not? People we meet in books--Holden Caulfield, Captain Ahab, Huckleberry Finn, Harry Potter, Bilbo and Gandalf and Frodo-- can become more memorable, and more important to us than people with birth certificates and drivers' licenses. Characters spawned in an author's imagination find a home inside us. They make our lives richer. They become our best friends. They never disappoint. And they never die.","author":"Michael R. French","tags":["-inspiration","-and-characters","character","character-relationships","characters","characters-come-to-life","imagination","life-of-characters","love-for-characters","about-characters","readers-and-characters","writing"],"id":19908,"author_id":"Michael+R.+French"},{"text":"When you're in love, there's nothing that can embarrass or surprise you.","author":"Michael R. French","tags":["embarrassment","love","love","love-and-sayings","loving-someone","about-love","surprise","surprises","when-you-re-in-love"],"id":25158,"author_id":"Michael+R.+French"},{"text":"In our ever-changing universe, lives collide, and, like runaway planets, we just keep going.","author":"Michael R. French","tags":["collide","inspiration","keep-going","life","lives","planets","universe"],"id":105482,"author_id":"Michael+R.+French"},{"text":"Albert Einstein was never clear if he believed in time travel, but had he raised a toddler, he certainly would have.","author":"Michael R. French","tags":["albert-einstein","children","einstein","parenting","parenting","raising-a-toddler","they-grow-up-fast","time-flies","time-travel","toddler"],"id":176680,"author_id":"Michael+R.+French"},{"text":"Racism and inequality are likened to a fungus which grows in dark places and is all the more poisonous because one cannot see it.","author":"Michael R. French","tags":["dark","darkness","fungus","inequality","injustice","pisonous","about-racism","racism-fungus"],"id":235869,"author_id":"Michael+R.+French"},{"text":"Faith is the ability to endure.","author":"Michael R. French","tags":["ability","endurance","endure","faith","about-faith"],"id":238910,"author_id":"Michael+R.+French"},{"text":"In general men keep their internal lives–and their more complex emotions–closely guarded, because either they don't understand them or they are afraid of being betrayed by them.","author":"Michael R. French","tags":["complex-emotion","internal-lives","men","men-and-emotion","men-and-their-emotions","about-men-and-love","why-men-fall-out-of-love"],"id":248047,"author_id":"Michael+R.+French"},{"text":"We are not strangers. It’s a lack of trust that keeps us separated.","author":"Michael R. French","tags":["community","lack-of-trust","love","about-strangers","separation","strangers","trust"],"id":255655,"author_id":"Michael+R.+French"},{"text":"We must believe we are capable of transcending evil, of not needing to hide in the darkness or surrender to our basest fears.","author":"Michael R. French","tags":["base-fears","darkness","discrimination","evil","fear","minority","about-evil","about-fear","surrender","transcending-evil"],"id":271807,"author_id":"Michael+R.+French"},{"text":"Falling in love is more than infatuation. It is the need to feel whole, to feel safe, to be healed, to join together with someone, heart and soul.","author":"Michael R. French","tags":["deep-love","falling-in-love","feeling-safe","feeling-whole","healing","heart","heart-and-soul","infatuation","joining-together-with-someone","love","about-love","about-falling-in-love","about-what-is-love","soul","what-is-love"],"id":283274,"author_id":"Michael+R.+French"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":17,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}