{"quotes":[{"text":"And as for the vague something --- was it a sinister or a sorrowful, a designing or a desponding expression? --- that opened upon a careful observer, now and then, in his eye, and closed again before one could fathom the strange depth partially disclosed; that something which used to make me fear and shrink, as if I had been wandering amongst volcanic-looking hills, and had suddenly felt the ground quiver, and seen it gape: that something, I, at intervals, beheld still; and with throbbing heart, but not with palsied nerves. Instead of wishing to shun, I longed only to dare --- to divine it; and I thought Miss Ingram happy, because one day she might look into the abyss at her leisure, explore its secrets and analyse their nature.","author":"Charlotte Brontë","tags":["abyss","analysis","character","darkness","insight","intuition","psyche","psychological-insight","secrets","soul"],"id":55625,"author_id":"Charlotte+Bront%C3%AB"},{"text":"It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!","author":"Alison Bechdel","tags":["authenticity","psychological-insight"],"id":117823,"author_id":"Alison+Bechdel"},{"text":"I have lost patience with the idea of an insignificant human being standing up above the rest of us--whether he is called Reverend or Doctor or Judge--and shouting at us all about this thing or that. As soon as someone starts to pontificate in this way, I am apt to cut him off or leave the room, or, if this can't be done gracefully, I simply arrange that sweet vapid smile on my face that was so useful during the trial but that so infuriates Dr. Cole. After all, I have already taken the measure of my own insignificance, and I survived.","author":"Charlotte Rogan","tags":["psychological-insight","realizations","thought-provoking"],"id":345689,"author_id":"Charlotte+Rogan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":3,"pages":1}}