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