{"quotes":[{"text":"Katie soon learned there was a problem with hope.","author":"Carla H. Krueger","tags":["-carla-h-krueger","children","development","growing-pains","growing-up","hope-and-despair","sleeping-with-the-sun"],"id":1338,"author_id":"Carla+H.+Krueger"},{"text":"A silence absorbed them both – a lack of sound so potent it blackened the place with something richer than hate.","author":"Carla H. Krueger","tags":["-carla-h-krueger","childhood-trauma","fear","hate","hatred","silence","sleeping-with-the-sun"],"id":10679,"author_id":"Carla+H.+Krueger"},{"text":"On some days she was able to see both sun and moon at the same time. Like feuding cousins, they hung in two corners of the vast world-ceiling refusing to look at one another. The moon was always harder to spot and more faded, but it was there if you looked, as many things were.","author":"Carla H. Krueger","tags":["-carla-h-krueger","childhood","growing-up","imagination","learning-the-truth","moon","sleeping-with-the-sun"],"id":38935,"author_id":"Carla+H.+Krueger"},{"text":"Nader refused to bring her the feathery dream catcher – her asabikeshiinh – with its willow-web and invisible ‘lady spider’ apparently weaving her spells – an object Bea insisted always hung above her in bed.","author":"Carla H. Krueger","tags":["-carla-h-krueger","dream-catcher","dreams","lady-spider","refusal","sleeping-with-the-sun","spells","spiderweb","spiritual"],"id":57758,"author_id":"Carla+H.+Krueger"},{"text":"Prayer is better than pills.","author":"Carla H. Krueger","tags":["-carla-h-krueger","medicine","prayer","religion","religious","science-vs-religion","sleeping-with-the-sun"],"id":85431,"author_id":"Carla+H.+Krueger"},{"text":"Beyond the boundaries of herself, her parents and the enclosing garden walls, were open fields and other waiting places she still knew nothing of – lies of the land, perhaps. What Katie did know is that out there in the lonely nowhere was a special quietness, free of the sounds of daytime birds or foxes at night – and that it was a quietness she might like to listen to one day.","author":"Carla H. Krueger","tags":["-carla-h-krueger","growing-up","imagination","lie-of-the-land","loneliness","lonely","quiet-place","sleeping-with-the-sun","small-children","special-places"],"id":147988,"author_id":"Carla+H.+Krueger"},{"text":"Shush – it’s silent time again.","author":"Carla H. Krueger","tags":["-carla-h-krueger","childhood","emotional-freedom","silence","silence-speaks","sleeping-with-the-sun"],"id":172394,"author_id":"Carla+H.+Krueger"},{"text":"The breeze around them seemed to drop – dead – like a door to the best things had just closed.","author":"Carla H. Krueger","tags":["-carla-h-krueger","childhood-fears","death","hopelessness","loss","sleeping-with-the-sun"],"id":180263,"author_id":"Carla+H.+Krueger"},{"text":"I’ll be your friend until you find a better one.","author":"Carla H. Krueger","tags":["-carla-h-krueger","childhood-friends","friendship","parental-love","sleeping-with-the-sun"],"id":203152,"author_id":"Carla+H.+Krueger"},{"text":"Too old for dolls. Too ill for tablets.","author":"Carla H. Krueger","tags":["-carla-h-krueger","deceit","insights-of-children","lies","medicine","science-vs-religion","sleeping-with-the-sun"],"id":218008,"author_id":"Carla+H.+Krueger"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":15,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}