{"quotes":[{"text":"Katie soon learned there was a problem with hope.","author":"Carla H. Krueger","tags":["-carla-h-krueger","children","development","growing-pains","growing-up","hope-and-despair","sleeping-with-the-sun"],"id":1338,"author_id":"Carla+H.+Krueger"},{"text":"A silence absorbed them both – a lack of sound so potent it blackened the place with something richer than hate.","author":"Carla H. Krueger","tags":["-carla-h-krueger","childhood-trauma","fear","hate","hatred","silence","sleeping-with-the-sun"],"id":10679,"author_id":"Carla+H.+Krueger"},{"text":"On some days she was able to see both sun and moon at the same time. Like feuding cousins, they hung in two corners of the vast world-ceiling refusing to look at one another. The moon was always harder to spot and more faded, but it was there if you looked, as many things were.","author":"Carla H. Krueger","tags":["-carla-h-krueger","childhood","growing-up","imagination","learning-the-truth","moon","sleeping-with-the-sun"],"id":38935,"author_id":"Carla+H.+Krueger"},{"text":"I’ve always thought that the best moments can come from the worst times.","author":"Carla H. Krueger","tags":["-carla-h-krueger","best-moments","carla-krueger","emotional-intelligence","emotional-pain","human-nature"],"id":56312,"author_id":"Carla+H.+Krueger"},{"text":"Nader refused to bring her the feathery dream catcher – her asabikeshiinh – with its willow-web and invisible ‘lady spider’ apparently weaving her spells – an object Bea insisted always hung above her in bed.","author":"Carla H. Krueger","tags":["-carla-h-krueger","dream-catcher","dreams","lady-spider","refusal","sleeping-with-the-sun","spells","spiderweb","spiritual"],"id":57758,"author_id":"Carla+H.+Krueger"},{"text":"I lose it when I can't write. I feel sad and confused and fucked off.","author":"Carla H. Krueger","tags":["-carla-h-krueger","books","emotional-pain","writing-life","writing"],"id":64226,"author_id":"Carla+H.+Krueger"},{"text":"Prayer is better than pills.","author":"Carla H. Krueger","tags":["-carla-h-krueger","medicine","prayer","religion","religious","science-vs-religion","sleeping-with-the-sun"],"id":85431,"author_id":"Carla+H.+Krueger"},{"text":"When people say, 'you're so young to be a writer,' I always reply, 'I started young because I've got a lot to write.","author":"Carla H. Krueger","tags":["-carla-h-krueger","fiction-","life","writing","writing-life","writing"],"id":88305,"author_id":"Carla+H.+Krueger"},{"text":"He remembers how someone – he forgets who – once said in a sarcastic tone, “Isn’t she just Little Miss Sweetness and Light?” – and it was a statement that put him off proposing. It made him seriously reassess his options. He didn’t want to be with someone others saw as overly-moral because he has flaws, he has weaknesses. How would his mistakes compare to her virtuousness? She used to dislike the competitiveness at work, the way she claimed she could never really make friends with anyone because everything was always so fake and cut-throat and he used to berate her for it, used to tell her to accept it, to realise the truth about life and relationships – but she wouldn’t take it. She was always thinking too hard about everything, always questioning her motives. Surely, if he’d married her, she’d have started questioning his.","author":"Carla H. Krueger","tags":["-carla-h-krueger","book","challenge","dreams","escape","fear","freedom","illusion","life","madness","memories","past","relationships","sanity","uncertainty"],"id":91573,"author_id":"Carla+H.+Krueger"},{"text":"The fear of silence is a fear everyone should overcome.","author":"Carla H. Krueger","tags":["-carla-h-krueger","book","fear","fear","fearless","quiet","silence"],"id":110025,"author_id":"Carla+H.+Krueger"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":25,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}