{"author":"Maeve Binchy","author_id":"Maeve+Binchy","total_quotes":20,"quotes":[{"text":"Happiness is in our own hearts. I have no regrets of anything in the past. I'm totally cheerful and happy, and I think that a lot of your attitude is not in the circumstances you find yourself in, but in the circumstances you make for yourself.","author":"Maeve Binchy","tags":["happiness","happy","past "],"id":2144,"author_id":"Maeve+Binchy"},{"text":"I was the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a saint - a settled sort of saint, not one who might have to suffer or die for her faith.","author":"Maeve Binchy","tags":["sister","faith","her "],"id":21120,"author_id":"Maeve+Binchy"},{"text":"Always she had sounded sympathetic, always she had appeared to understand. But inside there was a bit of her that said that they couldn't have tried hard enough. If Celia had a daughter who was desperately unhappy at school and who had lost four stone in weight, she wouldn't hang around --she'd try to cope with it. If she had a father who couldn't cope she'd have him to live with her. Only now was she beginning to realize that it was not to be so simple. People had minds of their own. And her mother's mind was like a hermetically sealed box in a vault of a bank.","author":"Maeve Binchy","tags":["addiction","rescue"],"id":55257,"author_id":"Maeve+Binchy"},{"text":"To heal would be to open the wound,examine it and forgive.","author":"Maeve Binchy","tags":["forgiveness"],"id":130548,"author_id":"Maeve+Binchy"},{"text":"But an intelligent man like you would know that to live in an unrealistic hope is a very foolish way to spend a life.' - Lena Gray.","author":"Maeve Binchy","tags":["love","waiting"],"id":151295,"author_id":"Maeve+Binchy"},{"text":"If you woke up each morning, and immediately dwelt on your ills, what sort of a day could you look forward to?","author":"Maeve Binchy","tags":["day","look","you "],"id":201355,"author_id":"Maeve+Binchy"},{"text":"My brother married young, and his is the best marriage I know.","author":"Maeve Binchy","tags":["best","brother","know "],"id":291484,"author_id":"Maeve+Binchy"},{"text":"I am a big, confident, happy woman who had a loving childhood, a pleasant career, and a wonderful marriage. I feel very lucky.","author":"Maeve Binchy","tags":["happy","i am","childhood "],"id":291959,"author_id":"Maeve+Binchy"},{"text":"I was lucky enough to be fairly quick at understanding what was taught, but unlucky enough not to be really interested in it, so I always got my exams but never had the scholar's love of learning for its own sake.","author":"Maeve Binchy","tags":["love","understanding","lucky "],"id":293310,"author_id":"Maeve+Binchy"},{"text":"When I was teaching Latin in girls' schools before I became a writer, I didn't much like it if parents would come in and say, 'We'll have less of the Ovid and Virgil and more of the grammar, please.' After all, I was the one in charge. That's how I feel about doctors. You should trust them to do their job properly.","author":"Maeve Binchy","tags":["parents","job","you "],"id":316008,"author_id":"Maeve+Binchy"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":20,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}