{"author":"Michelle Frost","author_id":"Michelle+Frost","total_quotes":18,"quotes":[{"text":"It doesn't seem to make any sense, but then it never does! It's usually only afterwards when the pieces finally fit together, that you're left standing there thinking how obvious it always was.","author":"Michelle Frost","tags":["inspirational","spiritual-wisdom"],"id":1590,"author_id":"Michelle+Frost"},{"text":"She knows how to feed her soul with a few quick breaths of outdoor air from the stairwell. She can bide her time till freedom comes. Little fox lady with her bright and determined eyes... Taking her dose of freedom three times a day. Nothing else matters, she never stops to talk. She has better places to be than standing talking to other sick people. She has a fragment of home calling.","author":"Michelle Frost","tags":["inspirational-life"],"id":33260,"author_id":"Michelle+Frost"},{"text":"This time when she picked up her paints, she didn’t think, she just painted. It was like opening the door onto a storm. The canvas was her doorway and the paint all the thunder and lightning, the wild pain-filled sky caught inside her.","author":"Michelle Frost","tags":["anger","art","grief","love","passion","release-the-past"],"id":56899,"author_id":"Michelle+Frost"},{"text":"Music can make you feel things that aren’t yours—sadness, or love, or joy. A good song has a magic to it. It pulls you in and the feelings in the music take over and you become the music, you become the song.","author":"Michelle Frost","tags":["magic","science-fiction","steampunk","visionary-fiction"],"id":73854,"author_id":"Michelle+Frost"},{"text":"I can’t tell you what to do. Only you know what is best for you, but I can tell you this much: love isn’t a destination, it’s a journey. You have to be willing to walk together or you will end up walking further and further apart.","author":"Michelle Frost","tags":["inspirational-love","journey","love","romance"],"id":92932,"author_id":"Michelle+Frost"},{"text":"Those that know, do not need explanations, and those that do not, would not understand any explanations.","author":"Michelle Frost","tags":["humour","inspirational","spiritual-growth"],"id":118399,"author_id":"Michelle+Frost"},{"text":"Idrith didn’t want to go back to his cold lonely room, with all its unanswered questions. He took the glass and sat down.","author":"Michelle Frost","tags":["fantasy-scifi","mystery","visionary-fiction"],"id":133331,"author_id":"Michelle+Frost"},{"text":"Idrith didn’t want to go back to his cold lonely room, with all its unanswered questions. He took the glass and sat down. For a long while they sat without speaking, watching the flames and sipping their drinks. Idrith would have felt at peace if it weren’t for the book in Harmion’s lap.","author":"Michelle Frost","tags":["first-light","harmion","idrith","michelle-frost","suspense"],"id":148185,"author_id":"Michelle+Frost"},{"text":"They were forbidden words, laced with the fear of transgression and sin.","author":"Michelle Frost","tags":["rebellion","secrets","war"],"id":185562,"author_id":"Michelle+Frost"},{"text":"She put her head in her hands and began to cry softly. He felt confused and bitterly unhappy. A part of him wanted to go to her, to hold and comfort her, but he wasn’t prepared to be pushed away in cold anger all over again. He waited in his chair and felt the room expand until there was an emptiness the size of the desert between them.","author":"Michelle Frost","tags":["anger","grief","heartbreak","love","love-and-loss"],"id":198849,"author_id":"Michelle+Frost"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":18,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}