{"quotes":[{"text":"Semua orang pernah patah hati. All you have to do is move on.","author":"Nina Ardianti","tags":["novels","romance"],"id":123,"author_id":"Nina+Ardianti"},{"text":"While you were busy trying to prove God stands behind you, God was before me lighting the trail, so he could lead us both.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["be-kind","building-people-up","commandments","communicate","conflict","dogma","end-it-with-talking","facebook","forgive","god","gospel","hidden-agendas","insecure","jilted","love-everyone","low-self-esteem","making-a-point","mental-illness","move-on","neighbors","novels","obviousness","out-there","over-the-top","piety","pious","practice-what-you-preach","preaching","privacy","problems","reach-out","relationships","relentless","religion","religions","ridiculous","rules","self-righteousness","silly","slighted","talk","tearing-people-down","upfront","worthless"],"id":7615,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"There is no endTo what a living worldWill demand of you.","author":"Octavia E. Butler","tags":["novels","science-fiction"],"id":9992,"author_id":"Octavia+E.+Butler"},{"text":"We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generositie.","author":"Henry James","tags":["generosity","novels","training"],"id":12956,"author_id":"Henry+James"},{"text":"Of course, reading novels was just another form of escape. As soon as he closed their pages he had to come back to the real world. But at some point Tengo noticed that returning to reality from the world of a novel was not as devastating a blow as returning from the world of mathematics. Why should that have been? After much deep thought, he reached a conclusion. No matter how clear the relationships of things might become in the forest of story, there was never a clear-cut solution. That was how it differed from math. The role of a story was, in the broadest terms, to transpose a single problem into another form. Depending on the nature and direction of the problem, a solution could be suggested in the narrative. Tengo would return to the real world with that suggestion in hand. It was like a piece of paper bearing the indecipherable text of a magic spell. At times it lacked coherence and served no immediate practical purpose. But it would contain a possibility. Someday he might be able to decipher the spell. That possibility would gently warm his heart from within.","author":"Haruki Murakami","tags":["1q84","mathematics","novels","reading"],"id":13846,"author_id":"Haruki+Murakami"},{"text":"I looked for any footmarks of course, but naturally, with all this rain, there wasn't a sign. Of course, if this were a detective story, there'd have been a convenient shower exactly an hour before the crime and a beautiful set of marks which could only have come there between two and three in the morning, but this being real life in a London November, you might as well expect footprints in Niagara. I searched the roofs right along—and came to the jolly conclusion that any person in any blessed flat in the blessed row might have done it.","author":"Dorothy L. Sayers","tags":["mystery","novels","real-life"],"id":15253,"author_id":"Dorothy+L.+Sayers"},{"text":"Playdate. (n) A Date arranged by adults in which young children are brought together, usually at the home of one of them, for the premeditated purpose of “playing”. A feature of contemporary American upscale suburban life in which “neighborhoods” have ceased to exist, and children no longer trail in and out of “neighbor childrens” houses or play in “backyards”. In the absence of sidewalks in newer “gated” coummunities, children cannot “walk” to playdates but must be driven by adults, usually mothers. A “playdate” is never initiated by the players (I.E., children), but only by their mothers.In American-suburban social climbing through playdating, this is the chapter you’ve been awaiting.","author":"Joyce Carol Oates","tags":["contemporary","fiction","literature","mystery","novels"],"id":15558,"author_id":"Joyce+Carol+Oates"},{"text":"Until recently, I was an ebook sceptic, see; one of those people who harrumphs about the “physical pleasure of turning actual pages” and how ebook will “never replace the real thing”. Then I was given a Kindle as a present. That shut me up. Stock complaints about the inherent pleasure of ye olde format are bandied about whenever some new upstart invention comes along. Each moan is nothing more than a little foetus of nostalgia jerking in your gut. First they said CDs were no match for vinyl. Then they said MP3s were no match for CDs. Now they say streaming music services are no match for MP3s. They’re only happy looking in the rear-view mirror.","author":"Charlie Brooker","tags":["books","digital-age","ebooks","ereader","fiction","kindle","novels"],"id":16363,"author_id":"Charlie+Brooker"},{"text":"In any case, it seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to understand, to answer rather than to ask, so that the voice of the novel can hardly be heard over the noisy foolishness of human certainties.","author":"Milan Kundera","tags":["foolishness","human-nature","modern-life","novels","writing"],"id":17104,"author_id":"Milan+Kundera"},{"text":"When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is sometimes a vision that's not familiar. But I'm not trying to manipulate reality. This is just what I see and hear.","author":"Don DeLillo","tags":["familiarity","interpretation","literature","novels","readers","reading","realism","reality","robert-mccrum","translation","writing"],"id":18970,"author_id":"Don+DeLillo"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":329,"pages":33,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}