{"author":"Eleanor Brown","author_id":"Eleanor+Brown","total_quotes":14,"quotes":[{"text":"Imagine what could happen if we all had the heart to be who we truly are.","author":"Eleanor Brown","tags":["self-love"],"id":1206,"author_id":"Eleanor+Brown"},{"text":"There are times in our lives when we have to realize our past is precisely what it is, and we cannot change it. But we can change the story we tell ourselves about it, and by doing that, we can change the future.","author":"Eleanor Brown","tags":["life","past-and-future"],"id":13295,"author_id":"Eleanor+Brown"},{"text":"I have loved this disaster of a library since I was old enough to read.","author":"Eleanor Brown","tags":["library","reading"],"id":22385,"author_id":"Eleanor+Brown"},{"text":"She remembered one of her boyfriends asking, offhandedly, how many books she read in a year. 'A few hundred,' she said.'How do you have the time?' he asked, gobsmacked.She narrowed her eyes and considered the array of potential answers in front of her. Because I don't spend hours flipping through cable complaining there's nothing on? Because my entire Sunday is not eaten up with pre-game, in-game, and post-game talking heads? Because I do not spend every night drinking overpriced beer and engaging in dick-swinging contests with the other financirati? Because when I am waiting in line, at the gym, on the train, eating lunch, I am not complaining about the wait/staring into space/admiring myself in reflective surfaces? I am reading!'I don't know,' she said, shrugging.","author":"Eleanor Brown","tags":["bookish-humour","books","reading"],"id":29612,"author_id":"Eleanor+Brown"},{"text":"She never managed to find herself in these books no matter how hard she tried, exhuming traits from between the pages and donning them for an hour, a day, a week. We think in some ways, we have all done this our whole lives, searching for the book that will give us the keys to ourselves, let us into a wholly formed personality as though it were a furnished room to let. As though we could walk in and look around and say to the gray-haired landlady behind us, 'We'll take it.","author":"Eleanor Brown","tags":["books","readers","reading","sisters"],"id":54791,"author_id":"Eleanor+Brown"},{"text":"Instead, we'd do what we always did, the only thing we'd ever been dependably stellar at: we'd read.","author":"Eleanor Brown","tags":["books","reading"],"id":59719,"author_id":"Eleanor+Brown"},{"text":"We don't just come from the womb bearing our talents. They grow from all the things we learn.","author":"Eleanor Brown","tags":["talents"],"id":139167,"author_id":"Eleanor+Brown"},{"text":"The question to ask is what will satisfy you? What will bring you peace? And perhaps the answer to those is in asking yourself when you were last happy.","author":"Eleanor Brown","tags":["wisdom"],"id":149501,"author_id":"Eleanor+Brown"},{"text":"We were never organized readers who would see a book through to its end in any sory of logical order. We weave in and out of words like tourists on a hop-on, hop-off bus tour. Put a book down in the kitchen to go to the bathroom and you might return to find it gone, replaced by another of equal interest. We are indiscriminate.","author":"Eleanor Brown","tags":["books","readers","reading","sisters"],"id":212069,"author_id":"Eleanor+Brown"},{"text":"Cordy slept late, awakening only when the noises of the house and the insistent sunlight became to obvious to be believably incorporated into her dreams any longer.","author":"Eleanor Brown","tags":["dreams","sleep","sunlight"],"id":232151,"author_id":"Eleanor+Brown"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":14,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}