"I've only been gone a week," I reminded him. Well, a week's a long time. It's seven days. Which is one hundred and sixty-eight hours. Which is ten thousand, eighty minutes. Which is six hundred thousand, for hundred seconds."

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Meg Cabot

#Eight Quotes #Long Quotes #Gone Quotes

“Many a maiden, With white feet dancing light as air, Made happy music through the gloom.”
“I'm making a lot of noise as I walk.”
“Cooperation is just like two pagodas - one hardware and one software. Combined, we can take the leadership position in the world.”
“A leaf cannot return to the bud - bluestar to fireheart and greystripe”
“Christ honors our submission even when our only motivation is obedience.”
“I loved working with Meryl Streep twice and I've gotten to work with my friend Liam Neeson on several occasions.”
“...Iknow the bitter fact that most lives are incredibly wasted, that opportunities for developing identity, for receiving pleasure, for achieving a sense of self-worth are limited and, not only underdeveloped, but in most cases not developed at all--because no one thinks that a housewife, or a mother, or a typist has anything to develop.”
“Dominator culture has tried to keep us all afraid, to make us choose safety instead of risk, sameness instead of diversity. Moving through that fear, finding out what connects us, revelling in our differences; this is the process that brings us closer, that gives us a world of shared values, of meaningful community.”

Source : bell hooks (2013). “Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope”, p.197, Routledge

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