{"author":"William Goldman","author_id":"William+Goldman","total_quotes":80,"quotes":[{"text":"She had never looked as well. She had entered her room as just an impossibly lovely girl. The woman who emerged was a trifle thinner, a great deal wiser, an ocean sadder. This one understood the nature of pain, and beneath the glory of her features, there was character, and a sure knowledge of suffering.","author":"William Goldman","tags":["beauty","heartbreak","loss","love","melancholy","pain","sorrow","suffering"],"id":181,"author_id":"William+Goldman"},{"text":"It was only when the giant got halfway down the incline that he suddenly, happily, burst into flame and continued his trip saying, 'NO SURVIVORS, NO SURVIVORS!' in a manner that could only indicate deadly sincerity.It was seeing him happily burning and advancing that startled the Brute Squad to screaming. And once that happened, why, everybody panicked and ran...","author":"William Goldman","tags":["fiction","humor"],"id":4428,"author_id":"William+Goldman"},{"text":"True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops.","author":"William Goldman","tags":["cough-drops","love","true-love"],"id":4914,"author_id":"William+Goldman"},{"text":"Life isn't fair, it's just fairer than death, that's all.","author":"William Goldman","tags":["life"],"id":13183,"author_id":"William+Goldman"},{"text":"We’ll never survive!” “Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has.","author":"William Goldman","tags":["doubt","humor","optimism","survival"],"id":26463,"author_id":"William+Goldman"},{"text":"I don't like killing a girl,' the Spaniard said.'God does it all the time; if it doesn't bother Him, don't let it worry you.","author":"William Goldman","tags":["humour"],"id":29155,"author_id":"William+Goldman"},{"text":"Enough about my beauty,' Buttercup said. 'Everybody always talks about how beautiful I am. I've got a mind, Westley. Talk about that.","author":"William Goldman","tags":["beauty","humor","intelligence","minds","wit","women"],"id":34240,"author_id":"William+Goldman"},{"text":"I must court her now,' said the Prince. 'Leave us alone for a minute.' He rode the white expertly down the hill.\tButtercup had never seen such a giant beast. Or such a rider.\t'I am your Prince and you will marry me,' Humperdinck said.\tButtercup whispered, 'I am your servant and I refuse.'\t'I am your Prince and you cannot refuse.'\t'I am your loyal servant and I just did.'\t'Refusal means death.'\t'Kill me then.'\t'I am your Prince and I’m not that bad — how could you rather be dead than married to me?'\t'Because,' Buttercup said, 'marriage involves love, and that is not a pastime at which I excel. I tried once, and it went badly, and I am sworn never to love another.' \t'Love?' said Prince Humperdinck. 'Who mentioned love? Not me, I can tell you. Look: there must always be a male heir to the throne of Florin. That’s me. Once my father dies, there won’t be an heir, just a king. That’s me again. When that happens, I’ll marry and have children until there is a son. So you can either marry me and be the richest and most powerful woman in a thousand miles and give turkeys away at Christmas and provide me a son, or you can die in terrible pain in the very near future. Make up your own mind.'\t'I’ll never love you.'\t'I wouldn’t want it if I had it.'\t'Then by all means let us marry.","author":"William Goldman","tags":["humor","love","marriage"],"id":36472,"author_id":"William+Goldman"},{"text":"Is this a kissing book?","author":"William Goldman","tags":["princess-bride","storytelling"],"id":46549,"author_id":"William+Goldman"},{"text":"The Serpent, to my interpretation, was pain.","author":"William Goldman","tags":["bible","christianity","eden","pain","serpent","snake","suffering"],"id":52987,"author_id":"William+Goldman"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":80,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}