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A popular, mean girl at school. Tina makes it her personal mission throughout the school year to berate and humiliate Eleanor at every turn, sticking menstrual pads to her locker and dumping her clothes in the locker room toilets. Park’s mother, Mindy, cuts Tina’s hair regularly. It’s suggested that Tina—who dated Park briefly in junior high—still harbors feelings for Park and lashes out at Eleanor out of jealousy and resentment. Tina is redeemed at the end of the novel, however, when she offers the frightened Eleanor a safe haven from Richie’s wrath.
Tina Quotes in Eleanor and Park
The Eleanor and Park quotes below are all either spoken by Tina or refer to Tina. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 3
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But Park didn’t have any luck—or status—to spare on that dumb redhead. He had just enough to keep himself out of trouble. And he knew it was crappy, but he was kind of grateful that people like that girl existed. Because people like Steve and Mikey and Tina existed, too, and they needed to be fed. If it wasn’t that redhead, it was going to be somebody else. And if it wasn’t somebody else, it was going to be Park.
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Tina Quotes in Eleanor and Park
The Eleanor and Park quotes below are all either spoken by Tina or refer to Tina. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 3
Quotes
But Park didn’t have any luck—or status—to spare on that dumb redhead. He had just enough to keep himself out of trouble. And he knew it was crappy, but he was kind of grateful that people like that girl existed. Because people like Steve and Mikey and Tina existed, too, and they needed to be fed. If it wasn’t that redhead, it was going to be somebody else. And if it wasn’t somebody else, it was going to be Park.
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