{"author":"Joanne Harris","author_id":"Joanne+Harris","total_quotes":43,"quotes":[{"text":"For a time, then, we stay. For a time. Till the changes.","author":"Joanne Harris","tags":["gypsy","moving","travel"],"id":1857,"author_id":"Joanne+Harris"},{"text":"You priests. You're all the same. You think fasting helps you think about God, when anyone who can cook would tell you that fasting just makes you think about food.","author":"Joanne Harris","tags":["food","religion"],"id":6065,"author_id":"Joanne+Harris"},{"text":"Old habits never die. And when you've once been in the business of granting wishes, the impulse never quite leaves you.","author":"Joanne Harris","tags":["wishes"],"id":6650,"author_id":"Joanne+Harris"},{"text":"People grieve in different ways, some silently, some in anger, some in spite. Rarely does grief bring out the best in people, despite what local historians like to tell you.","author":"Joanne Harris","tags":["grief"],"id":50343,"author_id":"Joanne+Harris"},{"text":"It's never too late to come home,' he said, and pulled me gently, insistently toward him.'All you have to do...Is stop moving away.","author":"Joanne Harris","tags":["belonging","home","love"],"id":69069,"author_id":"Joanne+Harris"},{"text":"Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.","author":"Joanne Harris","tags":["alive","bittersweet","chocolate","happiness","heart","simplicity","torture"],"id":91591,"author_id":"Joanne+Harris"},{"text":"Gods? Don't let that impress you. Anyone can be a god if they have enough worshippers. You don't even have to have powers anymore. In my time I've seen theatre gods, gladiator gods, even storyteller gods - you people see gods everywhere. Gives you an excuse for not thinking for yourselves.God is just a word. Like Fury. Like demon, Just words people use for things they don't understand. Reverse it and you get dog. It's just as appropriate.","author":"Joanne Harris","tags":["gods","loki","words"],"id":106429,"author_id":"Joanne+Harris"},{"text":"There was something about total loyalty, uncritical devotion, endless patience, perpetual forgiveness and the general inability to believe that a loved one could ever do anything wrong that, frankly, just gave him the creeps.","author":"Joanne Harris","tags":["devotion","forgiveness","love","loyalty","patience"],"id":112676,"author_id":"Joanne+Harris"},{"text":"A black cat crossed my path, and I stopped to dance around it widdershins and to sing the. ","author":"Joanne Harris","tags":["cat","cats","magic","witch"],"id":113416,"author_id":"Joanne+Harris"},{"text":"Sometimes survival is the worst alternative there is.","author":"Joanne Harris","tags":["survival"],"id":127485,"author_id":"Joanne+Harris"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":43,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}