{"author":"Sarah Orne Jewett","author_id":"Sarah+Orne+Jewett","total_quotes":18,"quotes":[{"text":"The road was new to me  as roads always are  going back.","author":"Sarah Orne Jewett","tags":["past"],"id":189,"author_id":"Sarah+Orne+Jewett"},{"text":"The bright flower was like a face. Somehow, the beauty and life of it were surprising in the plain room, like a gay little child who might suddenly appear in a doorway.","author":"Sarah Orne Jewett","tags":["beauty","beauty-of-life","flowers","life","roses"],"id":76446,"author_id":"Sarah+Orne+Jewett"},{"text":"It was mortifying to find how strong the habit of idle speech may become in one’s self. One need not always be saying something in this noisy world.","author":"Sarah Orne Jewett","tags":["conversation","noise","silence"],"id":107362,"author_id":"Sarah+Orne+Jewett"},{"text":"The process of falling in love at first sight is as final as it is swift in such a case, but the growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.","author":"Sarah Orne Jewett","tags":["friendship","love"],"id":167326,"author_id":"Sarah+Orne+Jewett"},{"text":"Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.","author":"Sarah Orne Jewett","tags":["friendship","friends "],"id":212023,"author_id":"Sarah+Orne+Jewett"},{"text":"In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness; we are each the uncompanioned hermit and recluse of an hour or a day; we understand our fellows of the cell to whatever age of history they may belong.","author":"Sarah Orne Jewett","tags":["seclusion","silence","solitude"],"id":238858,"author_id":"Sarah+Orne+Jewett"},{"text":"There's more women likes to be loved than there is of those that loves.","author":"Sarah Orne Jewett","tags":["love","reciprocity","women"],"id":258063,"author_id":"Sarah+Orne+Jewett"},{"text":"When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.","author":"Sarah Orne Jewett","tags":["confidence","you","little "],"id":271573,"author_id":"Sarah+Orne+Jewett"},{"text":"It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance that knows what you know. I see so many of these new folks nowadays, that seem to have neither past nor future. Conversation's got to have some root in the past, or else you've got to explain every remark you make, an' it wears a person out.","author":"Sarah Orne Jewett","tags":["conversation","friendship","old-friends"],"id":277686,"author_id":"Sarah+Orne+Jewett"},{"text":"Find your quiet center of life and write from that to the world.","author":"Sarah Orne Jewett","tags":["write"],"id":301275,"author_id":"Sarah+Orne+Jewett"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":18,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}