{"author":"Michelle Zink","author_id":"Michelle+Zink","total_quotes":10,"quotes":[{"text":"Perhaps because it seems so appropriate, I don't notice the rain. It falls in sheets, a blanket of silvery thread rushing to the hard almost-winter ground. Still, I stand without moving at the side of the coffin.","author":"Michelle Zink","tags":["autumn","coffins","death","funerals","rainy-day"],"id":34043,"author_id":"Michelle+Zink"},{"text":"Still, experience has taught me that knowing one's enemy is key to winning any battle.","author":"Michelle Zink","tags":["learn"],"id":171421,"author_id":"Michelle+Zink"},{"text":"The day is like a diamond, all beautiful warmth on the outside but without any heat to accompany it.","author":"Michelle Zink","tags":["beauty"],"id":216209,"author_id":"Michelle+Zink"},{"text":"But I learned long ago that it does no good to think too far into the future. There is only here. Only now.","author":"Michelle Zink","tags":["life","thinking"],"id":290479,"author_id":"Michelle+Zink"},{"text":"Its emptiness is more than the lack of living, breathing beings. It is the unread pages of the many books that reside on the shelves throughout the room I should hot have thought one could tell when books have gone unread, but after the company of Birchwood's well-loved library it is as if I can hear these books whispering, their pages grasping and reaching for an audience.","author":"Michelle Zink","tags":["books"],"id":345755,"author_id":"Michelle+Zink"},{"text":"I shake my head. 'Remember, Mother. There are no mistakes.' She smiles through her tears, leaning in to kiss my cheek 'No mistakes, my angel.","author":"Michelle Zink","tags":["family-relationship","love","mistakes"],"id":379043,"author_id":"Michelle+Zink"},{"text":"I am not my mother. I love her, but I am not her.","author":"Michelle Zink","tags":["childhood","love"],"id":390508,"author_id":"Michelle+Zink"},{"text":"Some things must be done however much we wish to avoid them.","author":"Michelle Zink","tags":["bravery","life"],"id":432350,"author_id":"Michelle+Zink"},{"text":"To find the books end,cross the ancient wood to the mystic isle.Until then, prepare yourselffor the coming battle. . .AND TRUST NO ONE.","author":"Michelle Zink","tags":["end","mystery","prophecy","souls","twin-sisters"],"id":442746,"author_id":"Michelle+Zink"},{"text":"Alice will always be a beautiful mystery. It is one I am content not to solve.I can love her now in her lovely darkness.' -Amalia Milthorpe.","author":"Michelle Zink","tags":["darkness","death","end","love","mystery","sacrifice","sisters","soul"],"id":472230,"author_id":"Michelle+Zink"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":10,"pages":1}}