{"author":"Rachel Hartman","author_id":"Rachel+Hartman","total_quotes":34,"quotes":[{"text":"I was drawn to his aloofness, the way cats gravitate toward people who’d rather avoid them.","author":"Rachel Hartman","tags":["aloofness","cats"],"id":4155,"author_id":"Rachel+Hartman"},{"text":"Claude rubs the back of his neck and wrinkles his nose, about to tell me he was never sad. I believe this is called bravado and is not limited to lawyers, or even men, although that combination makes it almost unavoidable.","author":"Rachel Hartman","tags":["bravado","humor","lawyers","men"],"id":19269,"author_id":"Rachel+Hartman"},{"text":"And I realized a wondrous truth: that knowledge could be our treasure, that there were things humankind knew that we did not, that our conquest need not comprise taking and killing, but could consist of our mutual conquest of ignorance and distrust.","author":"Rachel Hartman","tags":["compassion","knowledge","power","treasure","truth","understanding","wisdom","wondrous"],"id":22750,"author_id":"Rachel+Hartman"},{"text":"Let the one who seeks justice be just.","author":"Rachel Hartman","tags":["justice","seraphina"],"id":30663,"author_id":"Rachel+Hartman"},{"text":"My companions ate the bear. I found I had no appetite.","author":"Rachel Hartman","tags":["food","hunting","nausea"],"id":51574,"author_id":"Rachel+Hartman"},{"text":"The beauty of the place moved me; I loved how the clean air felt in my lungs, how far I was from everything I had ever known. People I'd hurt, people I'd failed, people who thought me a monster. Here there was no monster greater than the ragged mountains.","author":"Rachel Hartman","tags":["beauty","mountains","nature"],"id":85060,"author_id":"Rachel+Hartman"},{"text":"So if the Infernum is an empy interior, what's Heaven in their conception?' I asked, nudging him.'A second inside-out house, inside, or rather 'outside' the first,' he said. 'If you cross its threshold, you realize our world, for all its wonder, has been but a shdow, another kind of empitness. Heaven is more than this.","author":"Rachel Hartman","tags":["heaven-and-hell","hell"],"id":85808,"author_id":"Rachel+Hartman"},{"text":"The Ninysh might have resisted a bit harder. I don't mean to imply that they were cowards...,' Maurizio said shrugging, clearly implying that the Ninysh were cowards.","author":"Rachel Hartman","tags":["coward","cowardice","persuasion","surrender"],"id":88111,"author_id":"Rachel+Hartman"},{"text":"I smiled into the darkness. There was nothing 'just' about metaphors, I was beginning to think; they followed me everywhere, illuminating and failing and illuminating again.","author":"Rachel Hartman","tags":["metaphor"],"id":94912,"author_id":"Rachel+Hartman"},{"text":"He was impugning my virtue. I ought to have been offended, but for some reason the idea tickled me. That could be my next career: instrument of torture! Seducing prisoners, and then revealing my dragon scales! They would confess out of sheer horror.","author":"Rachel Hartman","tags":["sarcasm"],"id":99282,"author_id":"Rachel+Hartman"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":34,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}