{"author":"Jennifer Arnett","author_id":"Jennifer+Arnett","total_quotes":14,"quotes":[{"text":"He'd done this hundreds of times: done a job, been drugged with a narcotic that erased his short term memory, and dumped in a seedy hole in the wall locale, where when he climbed out, he would have to figure out where he was, find a payphone, and call in for his next job.","author":"Jennifer Arnett","tags":["agent","drug","memory","short-story","spy","spy-thriller"],"id":18663,"author_id":"Jennifer+Arnett"},{"text":"I refuse to sit and wait for salvation. Every day I have looked to the sky for the white streak of a plane making its way across the Pacific, but I have not seen any.","author":"Jennifer Arnett","tags":["pacific","salvation","sky","waiting"],"id":30673,"author_id":"Jennifer+Arnett"},{"text":"The thing about the ocean is that the surface won’t always tell you what is going on underneath.","author":"Jennifer Arnett","tags":["ocean","scuba-diving","treasure"],"id":46363,"author_id":"Jennifer+Arnett"},{"text":"But every tomorrow has led to today— to us being alone, hungry, and cold on an unknown island somewhere in the South Pacific.","author":"Jennifer Arnett","tags":["cold","day-one","deserted-island","hungry","jennifer-arnett","south-pacific","today","tomorrow"],"id":61603,"author_id":"Jennifer+Arnett"},{"text":"Given that media has become fast-paced, readers now want books that show the action and don’t just tell you what is happening. Modern readers don’t want three pages of descriptions of a farmhouse. They want to hear the door’s creak quiet the chirping of crickets out in the cornfield, they want to feel the cool air drift through the house, then they want to see the shadow of a man, gun drawn, standing over the bed of his disloyal lover.","author":"Jennifer Arnett","tags":["action","fast-paced","writing"],"id":124085,"author_id":"Jennifer+Arnett"},{"text":"This island is a hard place to survive and I fear that it has made everything resistant to the cruel hand of death.","author":"Jennifer Arnett","tags":["death","deserted-island","survival","survival-of-the-fittest","survive"],"id":219543,"author_id":"Jennifer+Arnett"},{"text":"The mind is weak, and it must be mastered, controlled. The body, it knows no master save for instinct and, unfortunately, it is built for terminal suffering.","author":"Jennifer Arnett","tags":["body","controlled","instinct","mastered","mind","suffering","weak"],"id":238990,"author_id":"Jennifer+Arnett"},{"text":"I can’t help but imagine what that would be like—to be all alone on this island with eternity taunting me with loneliness. To say goodbye to the last human you will ever see—there is no crueler hand of fate.","author":"Jennifer Arnett","tags":["alone","day-one","deserted-island","eternity","fate","jennifer-arnett","loneliness"],"id":290174,"author_id":"Jennifer+Arnett"},{"text":"Audiences are craving intricate and intelligent stories that keep them on the edge of their seats.","author":"Jennifer Arnett","tags":["action","audience","intelligent","stories"],"id":350211,"author_id":"Jennifer+Arnett"},{"text":"A billion stars above us coat the sky white. It would have been beautiful back home, but not here. Here it is the ever present reminder that we are all alone and insignificant.","author":"Jennifer Arnett","tags":["day-one","deserted-island","insignificant","stars"],"id":392937,"author_id":"Jennifer+Arnett"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":14,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}