{"author":"Glenda Millard","author_id":"Glenda+Millard","total_quotes":21,"quotes":[{"text":"Sometimes it's better to live without a mother than not to live at all.","author":"Glenda Millard","tags":["live","mother"],"id":3128,"author_id":"Glenda+Millard"},{"text":"Sometimes I can see colour without opening my eyes. I saw that Billy's heart was no colour and every colour. Like water or diamonds or crystals, it's pure and reflects the light.","author":"Glenda Millard","tags":["colour","crystals","diamonds","eyes","heart","light","reflects"],"id":5616,"author_id":"Glenda+Millard"},{"text":"I know that sentence is long and has too many joining words in it but sometimes, when I'm angry, words burst out of me like a shout, or, if I'm sad, they spill out of me like tears, and if I'm happy my words are like a song. If that happens it's one of my rules not to change them because they're coming out of my heart and not my head, and that's the way they're meant to be.","author":"Glenda Millard","tags":["angry","happy","head","heart","rules","sad","sentence","shout","words"],"id":59675,"author_id":"Glenda+Millard"},{"text":"Maybe if the empty space inside her was filled with love there'd be no room for sad and dark things.","author":"Glenda Millard","tags":["dark","empty-space","love","room","sad"],"id":93865,"author_id":"Glenda+Millard"},{"text":"I saw pearls in her mouth and the velvet cushion of her tongue and I heard the magic words come out of her.","author":"Glenda Millard","tags":["magic","mouth","pearls","tongue","velvet","words"],"id":128504,"author_id":"Glenda+Millard"},{"text":"I couldn't tell what colour her eyes were. They were wet and dark and shining, like pools of deep, still water. For a second I thought I could see pictures in them, like I was looking right inside her to where her memories were. She smiled, and I wondered if she knew what I'd seen or if she could see the pictures I kept hidden inside myself.","author":"Glenda Millard","tags":["eyes","hidden","memories","pictures"],"id":158382,"author_id":"Glenda+Millard"},{"text":"You don't tell anyone things like that about your friends, even when you're mad at them.","author":"Glenda Millard","tags":["friends","mad","telling-a-secret"],"id":161518,"author_id":"Glenda+Millard"},{"text":"I couldn't remember anyone hugging me like that before.","author":"Glenda Millard","tags":["hug","remember"],"id":164804,"author_id":"Glenda+Millard"},{"text":"Then I kissed Max because I loved him, and everyone I had ever loved before had gone away and I had never kissed them goodbye.","author":"Glenda Millard","tags":["goodbye","kiss","love"],"id":172457,"author_id":"Glenda+Millard"},{"text":"Through the night we drove in a tangle of waking and sleeping, nightmares from hell and holy white dreams.","author":"Glenda Millard","tags":["dreams","drove","hell","holy","night","nightmares","sleeping","tangle","waking"],"id":204290,"author_id":"Glenda+Millard"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":21,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}