{"quotes":[{"text":"There are no happy endings, he knew, because nothing ends; and if there were any being dispensed, a great many worthier people would be in line for them long before Michael and Laura and himself. But the happiness of the unworthy and the happiness of the so-so is as fragile and self-centered and dear as the happiness of the righteous and the worthy; and the happiness of the living is no less short and desperate and forgotten than the joys of the dead.","author":"Peter S. Beagle","tags":["dead","dear","fragile","happy-endings","jonathan-rebeck","joys-of-the-dead","laura-durand","living","michael-morgan","nothing-ends","righteous","self-centered","unworthy","worthy"],"id":48701,"author_id":"Peter+S.+Beagle"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":1,"pages":1}}