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“That's the privilege of being a grandparent - they can indulge the children while parents have to be the bad guy. Grandparents can also be subversive and naughty with them.”

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Toby Stephens

Toby Stephens is a British television actor born on April 21, 1969. He is known for his versatile performances in various television series. more

“We have reached the end of the road that is built on the set of traits held out for male identity--advance at any cost, pay any price, drive out all competitors, and kill them if necessary.... we have arrived at a point from which we must seek a basis of faith in connection-- and not only faith but recognition that it is a requirement for the existence of human beings.”

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Book:The Geography of Childhood: Why Children Need Wild Places

Source: The Geography of Childhood: Why Children Need Wild Places

“We need to return to learning about the land by being on the land, or better, by being in the thick of it. That is the best way we can stay in touch with the fates of its creatures, its indigenous cultures, its earthbound wisdom. That is the best way we can be in touch with ourselves.”

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Book:The Geography of Childhood: Why Children Need Wild Places

Source: The Geography of Childhood: Why Children Need Wild Places

“Eating is perhaps the most direct way we acknowledge or deny the sacredness of the earth.”

Way Earth Eating Direct Deny Acknowledge Sacredness

Author:Gary Paul Nabhan

“All crises, once averted, become jokes.”

Jokes Crisis

Author:Edan Lepucki

“God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.”

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Author:Farrah Fawcett

“To find love is the great human undertaking...and it's always complicated by our compulsions and unconscious patterns, to say nothing of issues of trust and control.”

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Author:Michelle Huneven

“Its subtlest, most appealing accomplishment may be in how other characters respond to Gregorius' precipitous swerve onto the spiritual path. (...) That said, Night Train to Lisbon is a very long, ambitious book that's feverishly overwritten. (...) Think of W.G. Sebald recast for the mass market: stripped of nuance, cooked at high temperature and pounded home, clause after clause. Some of the clumsiness derives from Barbara Harshav's inelegant translation -- we're often aware of her struggle -- but she can't be blamed for the pervasive bloat.”

“Tanya Ward Goodman, writing with a big heart, clear eyes, and a light touch, allows us a privileged glimpse into the shabby, enchanted world of traveling carnivals, roadside attractions, and a beloved, eccentric father’s descent into Alzheimers. Just as her dad animated the handcarved, miniature western world of Tinkertown from coat hangers, inner tubes and old sewing machine motors, Tanya Ward Goodman has fashioned her complex and often hilarious memories into a beguiling, wry, and moving work of art.”

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