{"quotes":[{"text":"The most important things can't be lassoed with language. The most important things can only be felt.","author":"Megan Jacobson","tags":["aussie-","australian-literature","feelings","important-things","language","megan-jacobson"],"id":32640,"author_id":"Megan+Jacobson"},{"text":"If you want to see your life, you have to see through the eyes of another.","author":"Mark Henshaw","tags":["australian-literature","perspective"],"id":44355,"author_id":"Mark+Henshaw"},{"text":"The green sea swept into the shallows and seethed there like slaking quicklime. It surged over the rocks, tossing up spangles of water like a juggler and catching them deftly again behind. It raced knee-deep through the clefts and crevices, twisted and tortured in a thousand ways, till it swept nuzzling and sucking into the holes at the base of the cliff. The whole reef was a shambles of foam, but it was bright in the sun, bright as a shattered mirror, exuberant and leaping with light.","author":"Colin Thiele","tags":["australian-literature","sea"],"id":56880,"author_id":"Colin+Thiele"},{"text":"In general,' Voss replied, 'it is necessary to communicate without knowledge of the language.","author":"Patrick White","tags":["aboriginal","australian-literature","communication","language"],"id":110779,"author_id":"Patrick+White"},{"text":"Love, real love, comes with three conditions - respect, kindness and trust. It isn't, and should never be, unconditional.","author":"Megan Jacobson","tags":["aussie-","australian-literature","love","love","megan-jacobson","unconditional-love"],"id":122444,"author_id":"Megan+Jacobson"},{"text":"The burning off and the gathering together are one.","author":"Billy Marshall-Stoneking","tags":["aborigines","australia","australian-literature","poems","poetry","stoneking"],"id":160316,"author_id":"Billy+Marshall-Stoneking"},{"text":"If he had given away anything else, he would have been charged with indecent exposure.","author":"Edmund Campion","tags":["australian","australian-literature","boys-town","catholic","catholicism","charity","christian","christianity","priest","priesthood","religion"],"id":177570,"author_id":"Edmund+Campion"},{"text":"I'm sure it's not any wish of mine that I'm born with inclinations for better things. If I could be born again, and had the designing of myself, I'd be born the lowest and coarsest-minded person imaginable, so that I could find plenty of companionship, or I'd be born an idiot, which would be better still.","author":"Miles Franklin","tags":["angry","australian-literature","family","feminism","freedom-of-choice","freedom-of-thought","intelligence","miles-franklin"],"id":194660,"author_id":"Miles+Franklin"},{"text":"Do not define me by my gender or my socio-economic status, Noah Willis. Do not tell me who I am and do not tell me who society thinks I am and then put me in that box and expect me to stay there. Because, I swear to God, I will climb the hell out of that box and I will take that box you've just put me in and I will use that box to smash your face in until you're nothing more than a freckly, bloodied pulp. You got that, sweet cheeks?","author":"Megan Jacobson","tags":["aussie ","australian literature","box","feminism","gender stereotypes","megan-jacobson","yellow"],"id":205225,"author_id":"Megan+Jacobson"},{"text":"My wife is a lovely leathery green, the blue-tongued lizard said;Her eyes are as red as bulldog ants, lurking in holes in her head;Her body is made of the speckled grass, a violet grows on her tongue,And I could watch her for fifty years if nobody blundered along.","author":"Douglas Stewart","tags":["australian-literature","color","lizards","poetry","wife"],"id":236546,"author_id":"Douglas+Stewart"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":16,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}