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Alexandra Alexandra said: " Daylight Second stands out through the crafty rendering of family scenes that stay with you through their emotional charge and the carefully chiselled details.

I haven't finished reading the book, but I loved the bits that I have read. Daylight Second
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David Foster Wallace
“You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.”
David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

Nel Noddings
“If the well-being of my loved place depends on the well-being of Earth, I have a good reason for supporting the well-being of your loved place. I have selfish as well as cosmopolitan reasons for preserving the home-places of all human beings. Cosmopolitanism becomes thicker and more potent with this realization.”
Nel Noddings, Peace Education: How We Come to Love and Hate War

“nothing would happen if someone didn’t lead with a bit of spirit.”
Fiona Kidman, The Infinite Air

Linda Olsson
“It's often about the simple things, isn't it? Painting and photography are first about seeing, they say. Writing is about observing. Technique is secondary. Sometimes the simple is the most difficult.”
Linda Olsson

Nel Noddings
“[S]cience has contributed a great deal to war and violence, and people well trained in science are sometimes not entirely rational and are even dogmatic. We have to find a way to teach reflectively, not just scientifically.”
Nel Noddings, Peace Education: How We Come to Love and Hate War

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