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A child has little defense against the sight of a parent laid low. Parents, like the earth beneath our feet and the sun above our heads, are immutable objects, eternal and reliable. If one should fall, who might vouch the sun itself won’t
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Best quote I ever read about the loss of a parent
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“There was no room in that house to be a teenager.”
― Eleanor & Park
― Eleanor & Park
“It is so proud, so grand, and in places so beautiful and yet it displays all the disgusting features of a bloated glutton. The city as a body is a caricature of the human body: smelly, dirty, commanding, rich, and indulgent.”
― The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
― The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
“Her mom looked tired when Eleanor got home. Like more tired than usual. Hard and crumbling at the edges.”
― Eleanor & Park
― Eleanor & Park
“But the point is this: stories grow out of other stories, poems out of other poems. And they don’t have to stick to genre. Poems can learn from plays, songs from novels.”
― How to Read Literature Like a Professor Revised: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
― How to Read Literature Like a Professor Revised: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
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