{"author":"Sarah Miller","author_id":"Sarah+Miller","total_quotes":7,"quotes":[{"text":"My sisters and I sit together on a pair of suitcases. If we've forgotten anything, it's already too late -- our rooms have all been sealed and photographed. Anyway, Tatiana would say it's bad luck to return for something you've forgotten.","author":"Sarah Miller","tags":["anastasia","exile","otma","romanovs","russia","russian-revolution","traveling","tsar-nicholas-ii","war"],"id":11697,"author_id":"Sarah+Miller"},{"text":"Maria cries unashamedly on my shoulder while I whisper and pet her cheek, but Anastasia grips my other hand and stares fiercely back at our Alexander Palace with her wet blue eyes until it is no more than a lemon-colored speck against the sunrise.","author":"Sarah Miller","tags":["anastasia","home","otma","russia","russian-revolution","sadness","the-romanovs","tsar-nicholas-ii"],"id":165086,"author_id":"Sarah+Miller"},{"text":"I'll pretend, I tell myself. Pretending is safer than believing.","author":"Sarah Miller","tags":["anastasia","believing","otma","pretending","romanovs","russia","russian-revolution","tsar-nicholas-ii","war"],"id":254878,"author_id":"Sarah+Miller"},{"text":"I wish I wasn't an imperial highness or an ex-grand duchess. I'm sick of people doing things to me because of what I am. Girl-in-white-dress. Short-one-with-fringe. Daughter-of-the-tsar. Child-of-the-ex-tyrant. I want people to look and see me, Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova, not the caboose on a train of grand duchesses. Someday, I promise myself, no one will be able to hear my name or look at my picture and suppose they know all about me. Someday I will do something bigger than what I am.","author":"Sarah Miller","tags":["anastasia","inspirational","life","otma","romanovs","royalty","russia","russian-revolution","self","tsar-nicholas"],"id":284529,"author_id":"Sarah+Miller"},{"text":"Guys are always confused by how soft and sentimental they are.","author":"Sarah Miller","tags":["love","men"],"id":357227,"author_id":"Sarah+Miller"},{"text":"I spend a lot of time trying to convince myself that nothing really matters except being alive.","author":"Sarah Miller","tags":["depression","life"],"id":414664,"author_id":"Sarah+Miller"},{"text":"It's different now, like pushing the stop lever on my camera until nothing except the war can squeeze through the lens.","author":"Sarah Miller","tags":["anastasia","otma","romanovs","russia","russian-revolution","tsar-nicholas","war"],"id":453404,"author_id":"Sarah+Miller"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":7,"pages":1}}