How to Read Literature Like a Professor Revised: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines

by Thomas C. Foster

every garden that’s ever been, is on some level an imperfect copy of another garden, the paradise in which our first parents lived.

When a younger character takes on an older character’s talisman, she also assumes some of the elder’s power.

you need to take ownership of your reading. It’s yours. It’s special. It is exactly like nobody else’s in the whole world. As much a part of you as your nose or your thumb.

ignorance is simply the measure of what you haven’t got to yet.

Education is mostly about institutions and getting tickets stamped; learning is what we do for ourselves.