{"author":"Fredrik Backman","author_id":"Fredrik+Backman","total_quotes":83,"quotes":[{"text":"When it comes to terror, reality’s got nothing on the power of the imagination[.].","author":"Fredrik Backman","tags":["imagination","terror"],"id":1871,"author_id":"Fredrik+Backman"},{"text":"Only a swine thinks size and strenght are the same thing.","author":"Fredrik Backman","tags":["people"],"id":4778,"author_id":"Fredrik+Backman"},{"text":"A few years turned into more years, and more years turned into all years. Years have a habit of behaving like that.","author":"Fredrik Backman","tags":["aging","habit","time","years"],"id":32111,"author_id":"Fredrik+Backman"},{"text":"Because a time comes in every man's life when he decides what sort of man he's going to be: the kind who lets other people walk all over him, or not.","author":"Fredrik Backman","tags":["a-man-called-ove","fredrik-backman","about-life"],"id":34767,"author_id":"Fredrik+Backman"},{"text":"He went through life with his hands firmly shoved into his pockets. She danced.","author":"Fredrik Backman","tags":["love"],"id":38855,"author_id":"Fredrik+Backman"},{"text":"Humanity has many shortcomings, but none is stronger than pride.","author":"Fredrik Backman","tags":["human-nature","humanity","inspirational","inspirational-life","pride","prideful","wisdom","wisdom-inspirational"],"id":48966,"author_id":"Fredrik+Backman"},{"text":"Ana was a tornado. A jagged, hundred-sided peg in a community where everyone was supposed to fit into round holes.","author":"Fredrik Backman","tags":["different","diversity"],"id":54551,"author_id":"Fredrik+Backman"},{"text":"All people at root are time optimists. We always think there's enough time to do things with other people. Time to say things to them. And then something happens and then we stand there holding on to words like 'if'.","author":"Fredrik Backman","tags":["perspective","perspectives-on-time"],"id":83058,"author_id":"Fredrik+Backman"},{"text":"It's going to be a grand adventure and a fairy tale of marvels. But it's my fault that you'll find a dragon at the end, my darling knight.","author":"Fredrik Backman","tags":["adventure","dragon","fairy-tale","grand-adventure","grandmother","knight"],"id":88495,"author_id":"Fredrik+Backman"},{"text":"It's been six months since she died. But Ove still inspects the whole house twice a day to feel the radiators and check that she hasn't sneakily turned up the heating.","author":"Fredrik Backman","tags":["loss","loss-of-a-spouse","love"],"id":93919,"author_id":"Fredrik+Backman"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":83,"pages":9,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}