{"author":"Robyn Schneider","author_id":"Robyn+Schneider","total_quotes":37,"quotes":[{"text":"Sometimes I think that everyone has a tragedy waiting for them, that the people buying milk in their pajamas or picking their noses at stoplights could only be moments away from disaster. That everyone's life, no matter how unremarkable, has a moment when it will become extraordinary--a single encounter after which everything that really matters will happen.","author":"Robyn Schneider","tags":["ya"],"id":15117,"author_id":"Robyn+Schneider"},{"text":"Steinbeck wrote about the tide pools and how profoundly they illustrate the interconnectedness of all things, folded together in an ever-expanding universe that's bound by the elastic string of time. He said that one should look from the tide pool to the stars, and then back again in wonder.","author":"Robyn Schneider","tags":["interconnectedness","page-78","stars","steinbeck","tide-pool","wonder"],"id":22486,"author_id":"Robyn+Schneider"},{"text":"Art is pain. And so is life.","author":"Robyn Schneider","tags":["art","life","pain"],"id":43810,"author_id":"Robyn+Schneider"},{"text":"But at the last minute, I turned left, because I never had before, and because I had time to go down a different road.","author":"Robyn Schneider","tags":["choices"],"id":56718,"author_id":"Robyn+Schneider"},{"text":"We mourn the future because it's easier than admitting that we're miserable in the present.","author":"Robyn Schneider","tags":["future","life","perspective","present"],"id":70890,"author_id":"Robyn+Schneider"},{"text":"We have all been fooled into believing in people who are entirely imaginary--made-up prisoners in a hypothetical panopticon. But the point isn't whether or not you believe in imaginary people; it's whether or not you want to.'I think I'll stick with reality,' I said, handing Cassidy back her phone.She stared at it, and then me, disappointed. 'I'd think you of all people would want to escape.'Imaginary prisoners are still prisoners.","author":"Robyn Schneider","tags":["characters","escape","fiction"],"id":81868,"author_id":"Robyn+Schneider"},{"text":"If everything really does get better, the way everyone claims, then happiness should be graphable. But that's crap, because better isn't quantifiable.","author":"Robyn Schneider","tags":["happiness"],"id":89889,"author_id":"Robyn+Schneider"},{"text":"I still think that everyone's life, no matter how unremarkable, has a singular tragic encounter after which everything that really matters will happen. That moment is the catalyst - the first step in the equation. But knowing the first step will get you nowhere - it's what comes after that determines the result.","author":"Robyn Schneider","tags":["destiny","life","results","tragic"],"id":91449,"author_id":"Robyn+Schneider"},{"text":"Still here, Faulkner?' Luke sneered.'Still doing that terrible impression of Draco Malfoy?' I asked.","author":"Robyn Schneider","tags":["harry-potter"],"id":95510,"author_id":"Robyn+Schneider"},{"text":"And that was when I saw what Cassidy had done to herself: the gold and red ribbing on her sweater-vest, the matching stripes on her tie, the gray uniform skirt, and the navy blazer draped over her arm...'Is that a Gryffindor tie?' I asked.'And an official Harry Potter Merchandise sweater-vest,' she confirmed smugly.","author":"Robyn Schneider","tags":["harry-potter"],"id":102127,"author_id":"Robyn+Schneider"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":37,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}