{"author":"Shannon Celebi","author_id":"Shannon+Celebi","total_quotes":39,"quotes":[{"text":"Jeb'd said it was harder for a pretty girl to find work; even white men liked flowers, whether red or pink or blue.","author":"Shannon Celebi","tags":["abolition","abolitionist","flowers","pretty-girl","pretty-girls","race-relations","racism","slavery"],"id":279,"author_id":"Shannon+Celebi"},{"text":"Here’s a random factoid: I like cats. And here’s another: I like red wine.","author":"Shannon Celebi","tags":["cat","cats","red-wine","wine"],"id":953,"author_id":"Shannon+Celebi"},{"text":"She was no stripper with a heart of gold, that was for sure. A heart of steel, more like.","author":"Shannon Celebi","tags":["heart","steel","strippers","stripping"],"id":32175,"author_id":"Shannon+Celebi"},{"text":"You’re worried about what-ifs. Well, what if you stopped worrying?","author":"Shannon Celebi","tags":["what-if","worried","worries","worry","worrying","worrying-over-nothing"],"id":37746,"author_id":"Shannon+Celebi"},{"text":"Cuz I can count on one hand the men who’ve loved me, not in the Biblical sense—I don’t have enough digits for that—but who have truly loved me.","author":"Shannon Celebi","tags":["biblical","biblical-love","love","men","men-and-women","men-and-women-in-love","true-love"],"id":56904,"author_id":"Shannon+Celebi"},{"text":"It’s not like I planned it. I never woke up from some rosy dream and said, “Okay, world, today I’m gonna spaz.","author":"Shannon Celebi","tags":["craziness","crazy","dream","dreaming","dreams","plan","planning","plans","wake-up","waking","waking-up","world"],"id":61761,"author_id":"Shannon+Celebi"},{"text":"I think first of the children. What the hell am I supposed to tell them? Then I think about money, the house, all those things no widow will tell you ever crossed her mind.","author":"Shannon Celebi","tags":["death","death-and-dying","death-and-love","grief","grieving","husband-and-wife","widow","widowhood","widows"],"id":77430,"author_id":"Shannon+Celebi"},{"text":"Wine and a straitjacket. That pretty much sums it up.","author":"Shannon Celebi","tags":["crazy","insanity","insanity-is-normal","straitjacket","wine","writers","writing"],"id":83959,"author_id":"Shannon+Celebi"},{"text":"I am forever an advocate of books, both the reading of them and the writing. There is something sacred to me in that community. Because writing--and reading--is a solitary business. And it’s good to know I’m not alone.","author":"Shannon Celebi","tags":["readers-and-writers","reading","reading-books","writers","writers-on-writing","writing","writing-craft","writing-practice"],"id":85604,"author_id":"Shannon+Celebi"},{"text":"Okay, I’ll just jump right out and say it. I have anxiety issues.","author":"Shannon Celebi","tags":["anxiety","anxiety-attach","anxiety-attack","depression","depression","fear","gad"],"id":89395,"author_id":"Shannon+Celebi"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":39,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}