{"author":"Sonya Hartnett","author_id":"Sonya+Hartnett","total_quotes":20,"quotes":[{"text":"I fail to see how turning the subject over like compost can do anything except raise its stink.","author":"Sonya Hartnett","tags":["affected","humorous"],"id":2656,"author_id":"Sonya+Hartnett"},{"text":"I thought about how stupid it is, that all of us are born destined to desire somebody else, though desire brings with it such disappointment and pain. Humankind's history must be scored bloody with heartbreak. This hankering for affection is a blight upon us.","author":"Sonya Hartnett","tags":["affection","blight","desire","destined","disappointment","heartbreak","history","humankind","pain","stupid"],"id":11372,"author_id":"Sonya+Hartnett"},{"text":"How does one craft happiness out of something as important, as complicated, as unrepeatable and as easily damaged as life?","author":"Sonya Hartnett","tags":["happiness","life"],"id":19474,"author_id":"Sonya+Hartnett"},{"text":"In the quest for power, truth is always the first thing left behind.","author":"Sonya Hartnett","tags":["insightful"],"id":70142,"author_id":"Sonya+Hartnett"},{"text":"Affection makes fools. Always, without exception, love digs a channel that's sooner or later flooded by the briny water of despair.","author":"Sonya Hartnett","tags":["affection","briny-water","channel","despair","exception","flooded","fools","love"],"id":72578,"author_id":"Sonya+Hartnett"},{"text":"They thought back on the tales that the soldier had told. They remembered Hazel, the gentle Bethlehem donkey, who used the last of her strength helping those who needed her. They remembered the donkey who stood on the mountain and accepted suffering so that others would not know pain. They remembered the donkey with a hundred names, the sturdy friend of Jack who proved that the most humble being can have the most courageous heart. They gazed at the soldier, who said, 'I fear that John will be sorry he gave the silver donkey to me. The silver donkey belongs to the trustworthy and the brave.","author":"Sonya Hartnett","tags":["courage","inspirational"],"id":106596,"author_id":"Sonya+Hartnett"},{"text":"We both knew that what I said was the truth, as well as being a lie. The pure and honest answer was pinging between us, hovering above the weeds.","author":"Sonya Hartnett","tags":["answer","honest","lie","truth"],"id":131311,"author_id":"Sonya+Hartnett"},{"text":"My life was pouring out my feet and seeping through cracks in the floor; yet still I knelt and did not move, for fear she'd let go my hands. Let me stay, I wanted to beg: Please don't make me go.","author":"Sonya Hartnett","tags":["beg","fear","life","stay"],"id":131970,"author_id":"Sonya+Hartnett"},{"text":"Every atom in me feels composed of lead. This is what dying is: a pull to the ground.","author":"Sonya Hartnett","tags":["atom","dying","ground","lead"],"id":142115,"author_id":"Sonya+Hartnett"},{"text":"I would always be lonely, but no more alone.","author":"Sonya Hartnett","tags":["alone","lonely"],"id":239770,"author_id":"Sonya+Hartnett"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":20,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}