{"quotes":[{"text":"We stitch together quilts of meaning to keep us warm and safe, with whatever patches of beauty and utility we have on hand.","author":"Anne Lamott","tags":["beauty","fortitude","grace","humility","inspiration","quilt"],"id":103513,"author_id":"Anne+Lamott"},{"text":"She sat still, I thought, and yet she traveled. And when one stitches, the mind travels, not the way men do, with ax and oxen through the wilderness, but surely our traveling counted too, as motion. And I thought of the patience of the stitches. Writing a book, I thought, which men often do, but women only rarely, has the posture of sewing. One hand leads, and the other hand helps. And books, like quilts, are made, one word at a time, one stitch at a time.","author":"Sena Jeter Naslund","tags":["book","mind","quilt","travels"],"id":129705,"author_id":"Sena+Jeter+Naslund"},{"text":"It tugs at me, filling me with the kind of seasick nostalgia that can hit you in the gut when you find an old concert ticket in your purse or an old coin machine ring you got down at the boardwalk on a day when you went searching for mermaids in the surf with your best friend.That punch of nostalgia hits me now and I start to sink down on the sky-coloured quilt, feeling the nubby fabric under my fingers, familiar as the topography of my hand.","author":"Brenna Ehrlich","tags":["best-friend","childhood","coin-machine","concert","finger","friendship","guilt","hand","homesick","kodak-moment","laughter","life","loss","love","memory","mermaid","nostalgia","play","quilt","regret","ring","sad","seasick","sky","surf","ticket"],"id":273732,"author_id":"Brenna+Ehrlich"},{"text":"We sat bathed in luscious darkness, Casco Bay's thousand islands spread out before us like a diamond quilt. 'I don't get enough of this,' she said.","author":"Mike Bond","tags":["bay","casco-bay","darkness","diamond","islands","killing-maine","luscious","maine","ocean","quilt","scenery","water"],"id":350920,"author_id":"Mike+Bond"},{"text":"In your life, the people become like a patchwork quilt. Some leave with you a piece that is bigger than you wanted and others smaller than you thought you needed. Some are that annoying itchy square in the corner, and others that piece of worn flannel. You leave pieces with some and they leave their pieces with you. All the while each and every square makes up a part of what is you. Be okay with the squares people leave you. For life is too short to expect from people what they do not have to give, or were not called to give you.","author":"Anna M. Aquino","tags":["amish","anna-m-aquino","christian-living-inspirational","life","patchwork-quilt","peace","people","quilt"],"id":378664,"author_id":"Anna+M.+Aquino"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":5,"pages":1}}