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“It made sense that Tina was in Eleanor’s gym class—because gym was an extension of hell, and Tina was definitely a demon. A weird, miniature demon. Like a toy demon. Or a teacup. And she had a whole gang of lesser demons, all dressed in matching gym suits. Actually, everyone wore matching gym suits.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

“The other girls all laughed, even the black girls who hated Tina. Laughing at Eleanor was Dr. King’s mountain.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

“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.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

“Her mom looked tired when Eleanor got home. Like more tired than usual. Hard and crumbling at the edges.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

“There was no room in that house to be a teenager.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

“The four centuries between the Norman invasion and the advent of printing see huge changes in society.”
― Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

“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.”
― Ian Mortimer, 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.”
― Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor Revised: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines

“History is story, too.”
― Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor Revised: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines

“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.”
― Thomas C. Foster, 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.”
― Otto Santa Ana, Tongue-Tied: The Lives of Multilingual Children in Public Education