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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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“But his mom tried so hard to fit in in every other way.… If she could sound like she grew up right around the corner, she would.”
― 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
“There was no room in that house to be a teenager.”
― Eleanor & Park
― Eleanor & Park
“The other girls all laughed, even the black girls who hated Tina. Laughing at Eleanor was Dr. King’s mountain.”
― Eleanor & Park
― Eleanor & Park
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