"In the cab to the station, he told me that when he was growing up he'd see a look of pleasure cross his mother's face and ask what she was thinking: she'd say, I was just thinking of your father. "That's how I want us to be," Archie said. I smiled. "What?" I said, "I was just thinking of your father."

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Source : Melissa Bank (2005). “The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing”, p.115, Penguin UK

Melissa Bank

#Mother Quotes #Growing Up Quotes #Father Quotes

“Angela King is a lovely person with a tremendous sense of art.”
“The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die.”
“There are moments when you feel that the desire to work is fading, and the only way to bring it back is to get away from it, to put yourself in a state of frustration so you feel the need again.”
“There's no grand excellence to it. In my experience it was just almost the gulaggy boringness of it that'll kill you. You're just in this murk. And you're with other humans, but you lose all your human skills and it's just like you're in this plastic bag and you can't quite connect with people. You lose your ability to transmit electricity or something, and to receive it.”
“Part of why I wrote my book was so that we could focus on the structural and systemic reasons behind social misery. Changed hearts and minds are important. But they do little against the backdrop of a system that needs to exploit people and labor to survive. I'm more interested in changed systems than changed hearts.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“The profound political changes we need in order to heal our planet will not come about through fragmented problem solving or intellectual analyses that overlook the deepest yearnings and intuitions of the heart....As we begin to cultivate a rich inner life and experience our connection with all life, we realize how little of what society tells us we need is actually important for our well-being....Green politics must address the spiritual vacuum of industrial society.”
“Once you get to that point when you can just be yourself and relax, I just think that you're so much happier in general.”

Source : "‘The Hunger Games’’ Jacqueline Emerson: Girl On Fire". The Huffington Post Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 22, 2012.
“I wanted to undertake the challenge of daring to be great.”

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