{"quotes":[{"text":"But being the mirrors for each other's souls has a cost: by the time they part from each other, the individuals in the mating pair have become indistinguishable. Before their merger, they each yearned for the other; as they part, they part from the self. The very quality that attracted them to each other is also, inevitably, destroyed in their union.","author":"Ken Liu","tags":["cost","merger","mirror","other","self","soul","union"],"id":9138,"author_id":"Ken+Liu"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":1,"pages":1}}