{"author":"Susanna Kearsley","author_id":"Susanna+Kearsley","total_quotes":20,"quotes":[{"text":"Sometimes, the scales of justice find a level of their own, without our help... And sometimes, in seeking justice, we don't always serve it.","author":"Susanna Kearsley","tags":["justice"],"id":5421,"author_id":"Susanna+Kearsley"},{"text":"Romantic fiction, in the broader sense, can be any novel that has a love story somewhere in it. It can be a mystery or a historical novel, as long as it has this very strong romantic thread running through it.","author":"Susanna Kearsley","tags":["love","strong","mystery "],"id":42965,"author_id":"Susanna+Kearsley"},{"text":"But life, if nothing else, had taught her promises weren't always to be counted on, and what appeared at first a shining chance might end in bitter disappointment.","author":"Susanna Kearsley","tags":["life-lessons"],"id":74685,"author_id":"Susanna+Kearsley"},{"text":"People didn't just wear wedding dresses in the past. They also wore plain cotton shifts beneath them. As pretty as the dresses might be, and as lovely as they might look on display, if a museum doesn't hang the shifts beside them or acknowledge that the shifts existed, that exhibit's incomplete.","author":"Susanna Kearsley","tags":["past","people","museum "],"id":74760,"author_id":"Susanna+Kearsley"},{"text":"Tis action moves the world....[in] the game of chess, mind that: ye cannot leave your men to stand unmoving on the board and hope to win. A soldier must first step upon the battlefield if does mean to cross it.","author":"Susanna Kearsley","tags":["action","battlefield","chess","faith","soldier"],"id":98495,"author_id":"Susanna+Kearsley"},{"text":"A walk through the storage facility of the community museum where I worked might easily have convinced you that people in the past wore only wedding dresses, carried silver candlesticks, and played with porcelain dolls.","author":"Susanna Kearsley","tags":["community","past","walk "],"id":100207,"author_id":"Susanna+Kearsley"},{"text":"When you say that you write romantic fiction, there are a lot of people who have an image in their mind of the 'bodice ripper.' It's the one term that most romantic fiction writers absolutely hate because it has no bearing on what people are writing.","author":"Susanna Kearsley","tags":["writing","hate","mind "],"id":110079,"author_id":"Susanna+Kearsley"},{"text":"Ye'll never best your fears until ye face them.","author":"Susanna Kearsley","tags":["inspirational"],"id":134025,"author_id":"Susanna+Kearsley"},{"text":"That's how you have to read this book, you see. You wade through a few sentences, then stop and think about them, then wade through a few more.","author":"Susanna Kearsley","tags":["books","reading","reading-books","reading-habits"],"id":175910,"author_id":"Susanna+Kearsley"},{"text":"As a former waitress myself, I know firsthand how a simple smile from someone can improve your day and how a single harsh word can destroy it. Being courteous and thoughtful costs you nothing and can sometimes pay you dividends in unexpected ways.","author":"Susanna Kearsley","tags":["day","myself","simple "],"id":196925,"author_id":"Susanna+Kearsley"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":20,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}