{"quotes":[{"text":"Even if you fall on the runway, I wouldn't blame you. It would mean that we made a mistake in choosing you.","author":"Ai Yazawa","tags":["fashion","george","romance","yukari"],"id":26283,"author_id":"Ai+Yazawa"},{"text":"Hermes smiled. 'I knew a boy once ... Oh, younger than you by far. A mere baby, really.'Hermes ignored them. 'One night, when this boy's mother wasn't watching, he sneaked out of their cave and stole some cattle that belonged to Apollo.'Did he get blasted to tiny pieces?' I asked.'Hmm ... No. Actually, everything turned out quite well. To make up for his theft, the boy gave Apollo an instrument he'd invented-a lyre. Apollo was so enchanted with the music that he forgot all about being angry.'So what's the moral?'The moral?' Hermes asked. 'Goodness, you act like it's a fable. It's a true story. Does truth have a moral?'Um ...'How about this: stealing is not always bad?'I don't think my mom would like that moral.', suggested George. Martha demanded..'I've got it,' Hermes said. 'Young people don't always do what they're told, but if they can pull it off and do something wonderful, sometimes they escape punishment. How's that?","author":"Rick Riordan","tags":["apollo","george","hermes","humor","martha","moral","percy-jackson","rats"],"id":26529,"author_id":"Rick+Riordan"},{"text":"A culture capable of imagining complexly is a humble culture. It acts, when it has to act, as late in the game as possibl, and as cautiously, because it knows its girth and the tight confines of the china shop it's blundering into. And it knows that no matter how well prepared it is -- no matter how ruthlessly it has held its projections up to intelligent scrutiny -- the place it is headed for is going to very different from the place it imagined. The shortfall between the imagined and the real, multiplied by the violence of one's intent, equals the evil one will do.","author":"George Saunders","tags":["chaos","complexity","ethics","george","humility","intelligence","morality","saunders"],"id":40380,"author_id":"George+Saunders"},{"text":"Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist?O'Brien: Of course he exists.Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me?O'Brien: You do not exist.","author":"George Orwell","tags":["1984","big-brother","george","george-orwell","government","orwell"],"id":46286,"author_id":"George+Orwell"},{"text":"I thought it sounded a bit like Percy singing... Maybe you've got to attack him while he's in the shower, Harry.","author":"J.K. Rowling","tags":["george","hp4","humor","weasley"],"id":66431,"author_id":"J.K.+Rowling"},{"text":"Is Jase already gonna marry you?” I start coughing again. “Uh, No. No, George. I’m only seventeen.” As if that’s the only reason we’re not engaged. “I’m this many.” George holds up four, slightly grubby fingers. “But Jase is seventeen and a half. You could. Then you could live in here with him. And have a big family.” Jase strides back into the room, of course, midway through this proposition. “George. Beat it. Discovery Channel is on.” George backs out of the room but not before saying, “His bed’s really comfortable. And he never pees in it.","author":"Huntley Fitzpatrick","tags":["george","humour","jase","samantha"],"id":90647,"author_id":"Huntley+Fitzpatrick"},{"text":"George looked at her for a long moment. Finally he replied, 'And why do you find it so hard to think someone might like you and want to do things for you?","author":"Tamora Pierce","tags":["alanna","friendship","george"],"id":104785,"author_id":"Tamora+Pierce"},{"text":"Well, you can't break an Unbreakable Vow....'I'd worked that much out for myself, funnily enough. What happens if you break it, then?'You die,' said Ron simply. 'Fred and George tried to get me to make one when I was about five. I nearly did too, I was holding hands with Fred and everything when Dad found us. He went mental,' said Ron, with a reminiscent gleam in his eyes. 'Only time I've ever seen Dad as angry as Mum. Fred reckons his left buttock has never been the same since.'“Yeah, well, passing over Fred’s left buttock —”'I beg your pardon?' said Fred's voice as the twins entered the kitchen.","author":"J.K. Rowling","tags":["fred","george","harry-potter","ron","vow"],"id":116595,"author_id":"J.K.+Rowling"},{"text":"It doesn't matter if they hate you, or embarrass you, or simply don't appreciate your genius for inventing the internet-'You invented the internet?', Martha said., George said.'It was my idea!' Hermes said. 'I mean the internet, not the rats. But that's not the point.","author":"Rick Riordan","tags":["george","hermes","humor","internet","martha","percy-jackson"],"id":135243,"author_id":"Rick+Riordan"},{"text":"Wow, we're identical!","author":"J.K. Rowling","tags":["deathlyhallows","fred","fredandgeorge","funny","george","harry-potter","twins","weasley-twins","weasleys"],"id":139101,"author_id":"J.K.+Rowling"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":20,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}