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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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“Part of pattern recognition is talent, but a whole lot of it is practice: if you read enough and give what you read enough thought, you begin to see patterns, archetypes, recurrences.”
― 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
“There was no room in that house to be a teenager.”
― 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
“1663 Reverend John Eliot publishes the New Testament in the Massachusetts language, with the help of Indian translators and printers. 1775 The U.S. Continental Congress appropriates five hundred dollars to establish Dartmouth College in New Hampshire for the education of Indian children. 1778–1871 The U.S. enters into over 370 treaties with various American Indian nations. More than one hundred include specific provisions for educational facilities.”
― Tongue-Tied: The Lives of Multilingual Children in Public Education
― Tongue-Tied: The Lives of Multilingual Children in Public Education
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