{"author":"Nina Sankovitch","author_id":"Nina+Sankovitch","total_quotes":7,"quotes":[{"text":"We are what we love to read, and when we admit to loving a book, we admit that the book represents some aspect of ourselves truly, whether it is that we are suckers for romance or pining for adventure or secretly fascinated by crime.","author":"Nina Sankovitch","tags":["books"],"id":113607,"author_id":"Nina+Sankovitch"},{"text":"Desire for a person is not the same thing as having that unique appreciation and need for them, nor is affection. Desire waxes and wanes, and affection can be felt without long-standing commitment. But 'You matter to me' means that the long haul is accepted, even willingly taken on: I will carry you, hold you and applaud you, from here on in. Dependability: I will be here to take care of you. And when you are gone, I will be here to remember you.","author":"Nina Sankovitch","tags":["affection","dependability","desire","love"],"id":130500,"author_id":"Nina+Sankovitch"},{"text":"Sorrow is the violent smashing of reason, in that reason has no power over it.","author":"Nina Sankovitch","tags":["greif","greiving","reason","reasoning","sadness","sorrow"],"id":130586,"author_id":"Nina+Sankovitch"},{"text":"Stories about lives remembered bring us backward while allowing us to move forward.","author":"Nina Sankovitch","tags":["backward","forward","forward-movement","history","life","live","lives","lives-remembered","looking-back","looking-backward","memoir","memories","moving-forward","remember","remembering","stories","stories-life"],"id":142424,"author_id":"Nina+Sankovitch"},{"text":"Remembrance is acknowledging that a life was lived ...My father finally wrote out his memories for a reason. I took on a year of reading books for a reason. Because words are witness to life: they record what has happened, and they make it all real.Words create the stories that become history and become unforgettable. Even fiction portrays truth: good fiction is truth. Stories about lives remembered bring us backward while allowing us to move forward.","author":"Nina Sankovitch","tags":["life","remembrance","truth","words"],"id":220127,"author_id":"Nina+Sankovitch"},{"text":"Cyril Connolly, twentieth-century writer and critic, wrote that ‘words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.’ That was how I wanted to use books: as an escape back to life. I wanted to engulf myself in books and come up whole again.P.20.","author":"Nina Sankovitch","tags":["escape-into-living","healing"],"id":276486,"author_id":"Nina+Sankovitch"},{"text":"Our house was open to anyone who needed a little extra support or comfort or just a home-cooked meal.","author":"Nina Sankovitch","tags":["home"],"id":416667,"author_id":"Nina+Sankovitch"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":7,"pages":1}}