{"author":"Rene Denfeld","author_id":"Rene+Denfeld","total_quotes":18,"quotes":[{"text":"I read everything in that dusty little library. I read the prologues and the epilogues until I could tell you how many times Stephen King thanked his wife, Tabitha. I could tell you how the Columbia Indians made their long-houses, or how to make a solar toilet, or how to dry bear meat in the sun. I could tell you all of this if I could talk, but instead the words stayed inside of me and marveled. This I could accept, or so I told myself for a long time. Because the words were there, and they carried me to another place.","author":"Rene Denfeld","tags":["language","power-of-words","reading","rene-denfeld","words"],"id":14759,"author_id":"Rene+Denfeld"},{"text":"This is a place of true imagination.","author":"Rene Denfeld","tags":["imagination"],"id":21691,"author_id":"Rene+Denfeld"},{"text":"Ideas are powerful things; we should take more care with them. I know there are some who would disagree - those who think ideas are like food they can taste and spit out if they don't like it. But ideas are stronger than that. You can get a taste of an idea inside you, and the next thing you know, it won't leave. Until you do something about it.","author":"Rene Denfeld","tags":["ideas"],"id":91593,"author_id":"Rene+Denfeld"},{"text":"And for the next long years of my life, I tried to remember only the reading, not the terrible things that happened to me as I came and went up and down the stairs. The library became my sanctuary. I loved the ways the precious stories took shape but always had room to be read again. I became fascinated with how writers did that. How did they make a story feel so complete and yet to open-ended? It was like painting a picture that changed each time you looked at it.","author":"Rene Denfeld","tags":["books","library","power-of-words","quotes","reading","writing"],"id":96125,"author_id":"Rene+Denfeld"},{"text":"Snow girl was glad she had left her own feelings behind.","author":"Rene Denfeld","tags":["dissociation","trauma"],"id":120193,"author_id":"Rene+Denfeld"},{"text":"America was an iceberg shattered into a billion fragments, and on each stood a person, rotating like an ice floe in a storm.","author":"Rene Denfeld","tags":["aloneness","community","isolation"],"id":142705,"author_id":"Rene+Denfeld"},{"text":"If you understand what makes him tick-what is magic for him- then you can understand anyone.","author":"Rene Denfeld","tags":["community","imagination","magic","relationship","understanding"],"id":179948,"author_id":"Rene+Denfeld"},{"text":"The books brought brilliance to my life, and they brought an understanding: Life is a story. Everything that has happened and will happen to me is all part of the story of this enchanted place - all the dreams and visions and understandings that come to me in my dungeon cell. The books helped me see the truth is not in the touch of the stone but in what the stone tells you.","author":"Rene Denfeld","tags":["books","language","life-is-a-story","power-of-words","quotes","reading"],"id":185482,"author_id":"Rene+Denfeld"},{"text":"Your worst dungeon might be the room with the most windows.","author":"Rene Denfeld","tags":["truth-of-life"],"id":199925,"author_id":"Rene+Denfeld"},{"text":"How odd it is, that the dead weigh more than the living. You would think it would be the opposite, but it isn't. I think it is because souls give bodies lightness and air. When the soul leaves, the body has nothing left and is desperate to return to the earth. That's why it's so heavy.","author":"Rene Denfeld","tags":["death","soul"],"id":202960,"author_id":"Rene+Denfeld"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":18,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}