{"quotes":[{"text":"We formed an impromptu circle just so we could look at each other and memorize faces. We hardly noticed the waiting officials. We hardly noticed anything but our little family whose ties weren’t loosening at all. In fact, this impending separation only seemed to be binding us together with a double overhand knot, hard to untie and unfailing.","author":"Laura Anderson Kurk","tags":["dating","desperation","family","glass-girl","government","grief","henry-whitmire","laura-anderson-kurk","long-distance-relationship","loss","love","meg-kavanagh","nicaragua","orphanage","orphans","perfect-glass","prayer","romance"],"id":14050,"author_id":"Laura+Anderson+Kurk"},{"text":"My dad used to say, ‘This is what your right arm’s for, son,’” John said. “This is the time and these are the people and I’d give my right arm to be a light, a comfort, to them. I know you would, too. In whatever form it takes. Use these materials and make something great. Do it on faith, knowing you probably won’t be around to see how the story ends.","author":"Laura Anderson Kurk","tags":["dating","dedication","glass-girl","high-school","laura-anderson-kurk","long-distance-relationships","love","nicaragua","orphanage","perfect-glass","romance","sacrifice","teen-books","teen-fiction","volunteerism","wyoming","ya","young-adult-fiction"],"id":17315,"author_id":"Laura+Anderson+Kurk"},{"text":"And what do you want?”I almost choked. “How could you even ask me that, Henry?”He sighed. “Because I’m thousands of miles away. Because I Skyped into your living room late one night and there’s a dude sitting next to you in the dark. Because Thanet tells me things. And Tennyson sent me a picture of you in a dress that looks like lingerie.”“It’s not that bad,” I said.“I didn’t say it was bad, Meg. It’s about a million miles from bad.” His voice was breaking with exasperation. “Things are crazy here, and I’m questioning everything.","author":"Laura Anderson Kurk","tags":["breakups","dating","glass-girl","henry-whitmire","high-school","jealousy","laura-anderson-kurk","long-distance-relationships","love","meg-kavanagh","nicaragua","orphanage","perfect-glass","playlist-fiction","romance","skype","wyoming"],"id":53001,"author_id":"Laura+Anderson+Kurk"},{"text":"New rules—we needed new rules. No one opens the main doors but me. No one leaves the property without me. No one goes outside without letting me know. I had these horrible images in my head of kids being restrained against their wills, of kids crying my name out, begging me to help them when I was powerless. Desperate times… Lord, my soul called out. Lord…somehow that’s as far as I could get. I didn’t have the words.","author":"Laura Anderson Kurk","tags":["desperation","glass-girl","government","laura-anderson-kurk","love","orphanage","perfect-glass","prayer","romance","separation","teen-fiction","ya","young-adult-fiction"],"id":130152,"author_id":"Laura+Anderson+Kurk"},{"text":"I thought back to Meg’s advice about Hemingway sentences—simple declarative statements that showed the truth and distilled the meaning. My first attempt at that had been cynical and messed up. I gave it a go again.Find one lost sheep.The angels rejoice.","author":"Laura Anderson Kurk","tags":["angels","college","cynicism","dating","faith","glass-girl","hemingway","high-school","laura-anderson-kurk","long-distance-relationship","love","nicaragua","orphan","orphanage","perfect-glass","religion","teen-fiction","teen-literature","wyoming","ya","young-adult-fiction"],"id":157871,"author_id":"Laura+Anderson+Kurk"},{"text":"Orfanages r fule of little misstakes, just like my Englich.","author":"Anthony T. Hincks","tags":["children","english","kids","life","little","mistakes","no-parents","orphanage","people","philosophy"],"id":169747,"author_id":"Anthony+T.+Hincks"},{"text":"Quit worrying so much about the boards and nails of your life. Focus on the stuff that lasts.” He glanced through the window toward the glowing light of the kitchen where Meg and my mom were laughing about something.","author":"Laura Anderson Kurk","tags":["dating-young-adult-fiction","glass-girl","henry-whitmire","laura-anderson-kurk","long-distance-relationship","love","meg-kavanagh","nicaragua","orphanage","perfect-glass","romance","teen-fiction","ya"],"id":185608,"author_id":"Laura+Anderson+Kurk"},{"text":"We must not just be recipients but givers! We must not just be keepers but donors! Giving brings relief and sharing enlightens the heart. Caring joins and showing love is life. It is never enough to acquire all acquisition. It is never enough to have all our ambitions. We must endeavor to give for giving out of a true heart is a true love and a true love is life.","author":"Ernest Agyemang Yeboah","tags":["a-cheerful-giver","a-cheerful-heart","be-the-joy-of-others","caring-for-others","caring","give","give-from-a-good-heart","help-an-orphan","help-someone-in-need","life-and-living","love","orphanage","real-love","real-love","true-giving"],"id":187360,"author_id":"Ernest+Agyemang+Yeboah"},{"text":"It was about how men walk into a forest afraid because they know all the things that can happen. They might wake the noisy birds and cause chaos. But kids come into the trees and see the magic. They climb them and see stars that the men were too afraid to see.","author":"Laura Anderson Kurk","tags":["being-but-men","chaos","college","dylan-thomas","glass-girl","government","henry-whitmire","high-school","laura-anderson-kurk","long-distance-relationship","love","meg-kavanagh","nicaragua","orphanage","perfect-glass","poetry","romance","wyoming"],"id":187481,"author_id":"Laura+Anderson+Kurk"},{"text":"The purpose of having the orphans study all these diverse fields was not for them to just become geniuses, but to become polymaths – meaning they would be geniuses in a wide variety of fields.","author":"James Morcan","tags":["genius","genius-writers","geniuses","higher-intelligence","intelligence","orphanage","orphans","polymath","thriller"],"id":217981,"author_id":"James+Morcan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":17,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}