{"quotes":[{"text":"And I realized a wondrous truth: that knowledge could be our treasure, that there were things humankind knew that we did not, that our conquest need not comprise taking and killing, but could consist of our mutual conquest of ignorance and distrust.","author":"Rachel Hartman","tags":["compassion","knowledge","power","treasure","truth","understanding","wisdom","wondrous"],"id":22750,"author_id":"Rachel+Hartman"},{"text":"So wondrous wild, the whole might seemthe scenery of a fairy dream.","author":"Walter Scott","tags":["dream","outdoors","scenery","wild","wilderness","wondrous"],"id":28878,"author_id":"Walter+Scott"},{"text":"He placed a pinch of snow on his tongue and thought of making snow ice cream with Frank and their mother when they were small boys - 'First you stir in the vanilla' - Frank standing on a stool on his wondrously functional pre-Libya legs, the bullet that would sever his spinal cord still twenty-five years away but already approaching: a woman giving birth to a child who will someday pull the trigger on a gun, a designer sketching the weapon or its precursor, a dictator making a decision that will spark in the fullness of time into the conflagration that Frank will go overseas to cover for Reuters, the pieces of a pattern drifting closer together.","author":"Emily St. John Mandel","tags":["birth","bullet","conflagration","designer","dictator","frank-chaudhary","functional","jeevan-chaudhary","libya","paraplegic","patterns","pieces","reuters","snow","snow-cream","spinal-cord","the-fullness-of-time","tongue","vanilla","wondrous"],"id":292372,"author_id":"Emily+St.+John+Mandel"},{"text":"The serenity of the lulling ocean is a wondrous thing to behold..More precious than the gems coveted and covered in platinum or gold...","author":"Oksana Rus","tags":["art","artist","behold","gem","gold","healing","image","inspirational","inspiring","island","love","lover","lulling","motivational","ocean","oksana-rus","peace","picture","platinum","poem","poet","precious","romance","romantic","sand","sea","serenity","thing","tropics","vision","wondrous"],"id":347933,"author_id":"Oksana+Rus"},{"text":"Breathtaking, splendid, wondrous, sublime, all those words describe you, exactly as you are. You are a work of art! Enjoy your beauty!","author":"Amy Leigh Mercree","tags":["beauty","breathtaking","inspirational","about-life","of-the-day","of-the-week","twitter","self-acceptance","splendid","sublime","women","wondrous"],"id":405362,"author_id":"Amy+Leigh+Mercree"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":5,"pages":1}}