{"author":"Sangu Mandanna","author_id":"Sangu+Mandanna","total_quotes":8,"quotes":[{"text":"If you expect the worse, you're only denying someone a chance to be better.","author":"Sangu Mandanna","tags":["chance","life","people"],"id":1873,"author_id":"Sangu+Mandanna"},{"text":"You,” he says, before the door closes all the way. “I often dream of you.","author":"Sangu Mandanna","tags":["dreams"],"id":80634,"author_id":"Sangu+Mandanna"},{"text":"But maybe that's what the dead do. They stay. They linger. Benign and sweet and painful. They don't need us. They echo all by themselves.","author":"Sangu Mandanna","tags":["dead","lost","memory"],"id":162146,"author_id":"Sangu+Mandanna"},{"text":"If Sean's voice is layers of wood, and Mina Ma's is the voice a copper pot, then Mathew Mercer's is the voice of a wild animal. I suddenly think of a movie Ammara and I loved when we were little, and I think of Scar, the lion who murdered his brother to become king. That kind of voice.","author":"Sangu Mandanna","tags":["girl","king","lion","lost","mandanna","sangu"],"id":315177,"author_id":"Sangu+Mandanna"},{"text":"He can see what move I'm planning to make in chess and counters before I can do it. He always knows who the killer is in a detective story. I think he could make a career out of detecting, but he wants to write plays for theater. Maybe he could be a Shakespeare instead of a Sherlock. He could be anything. Anything he wants to be.","author":"Sangu Mandanna","tags":["clever","detective","love","playwright","writer"],"id":322846,"author_id":"Sangu+Mandanna"},{"text":"Just last year, I had to read the old Indian epic, the Mahabharata. Inspired by it, I wished I had been named Draupadi. After all, she, too, had been born differently, even abnormally. She had stepped out of fire, a gift from the old gods to her father the king. There had been no Hindu gods involved in my birth, but the loose parallels gave me a delightful sense of grandeur.","author":"Sangu Mandanna","tags":["ego","personality"],"id":330972,"author_id":"Sangu+Mandanna"},{"text":"Come on,' I say, 'let's go be star-crossed lovers and court disaster.","author":"Sangu Mandanna","tags":["adventure","love"],"id":416036,"author_id":"Sangu+Mandanna"},{"text":"I’d rather spend the rest of my life without ever seeing you again,” he says, “than watch them destroy you because of me.","author":"Sangu Mandanna","tags":["love","sacrifice","separation"],"id":431536,"author_id":"Sangu+Mandanna"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":8,"pages":1}}