{"author":"Ronald Frame","author_id":"Ronald+Frame","total_quotes":9,"quotes":[{"text":"We were perfectly decorous together. It took the will of both of us. I trusted him with me, and myself with him.","author":"Ronald Frame","tags":["decorous","together","trust"],"id":413,"author_id":"Ronald+Frame"},{"text":"Why d’you think she did it?”I told him I had no idea. He seemed disappointed that I shouldn’t know.“A broken heart,” I suggested.“Do people suffer so much?”“For love? Oh, I imagine so.”“To drown herself?”“Why does that astonish you? Dido threw herself on the flames.”“In legend.”“And real life’s different?” I asked.","author":"Ronald Frame","tags":["broken-heart","drowning","real-life"],"id":45439,"author_id":"Ronald+Frame"},{"text":"Experience can never be undone, or knowledge unlearned.","author":"Ronald Frame","tags":["experience","knowledge"],"id":47332,"author_id":"Ronald+Frame"},{"text":"Some things belong to the past.","author":"Ronald Frame","tags":["past"],"id":259637,"author_id":"Ronald+Frame"},{"text":"Don’t we have to live a little first? And read later?","author":"Ronald Frame","tags":["live","read"],"id":283977,"author_id":"Ronald+Frame"},{"text":"I’m not just a face, or a body. I’m a Havisham.","author":"Ronald Frame","tags":["body","face","havisham","identity"],"id":284872,"author_id":"Ronald+Frame"},{"text":"At the age of nine, I could cross the length of Glasgow on a succession of buses, wearing regulation garter-topped stockings and compulsory cap and - if I'd done well enough to earn the honour in last week's test - with a First World War medal on a striped ribbon pinned to my brown blazer. I must have looked like a chocolate soldier.","author":"Ronald Frame","tags":["war","world","week "],"id":314552,"author_id":"Ronald+Frame"},{"text":"Let's say I find a lot of current American fiction too overwritten for my tastes, too self-conscious; I like something that's simpler and more direct. The story is what matters to me. I hope to make it seem real to readers, as if it happened just like this - so I don't want fancy descriptions getting in the way.","author":"Ronald Frame","tags":["american","me","want "],"id":371393,"author_id":"Ronald+Frame"},{"text":"That’s what friends are for,” Sheba.","author":"Ronald Frame","tags":["friends"],"id":431334,"author_id":"Ronald+Frame"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":9,"pages":1}}