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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
“The four centuries between the Norman invasion and the advent of printing see huge changes in society.”
― 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
“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
“Her mom looked tired when Eleanor got home. Like more tired than usual. Hard and crumbling at the edges.”
― Eleanor & Park
― Eleanor & Park
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