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i didn't research the context of this novel in terms of Jackson's life until after reading--makes a lot of sense now that she writes so much about mob mentality, ostracism, and terrible townies with her experience of living as a Jewish person in a sm
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“Sometimes you cannot survive and still be who you were.”
― Mammoths at the Gates
― Mammoths at the Gates
“Yes I would like he thinks to live in such a way that I could vanish into thin air at any time without affecting anyone and in fact I feel that for me this would constitute the perfect and perhaps the only acceptable life. At the same time I want desperately to be loved.”
― Intermezzo
― Intermezzo
“I decided that deep down we're all who we were when we were kids. I think being a teenager is about hiding all your quirks and contorting yourself to fit in and impress people, and being an adult is about re-finding who you were when you were eight years old.”
― We Could Be Rats
― We Could Be Rats
“I think one of the benefits of growing up with a sibling is having a witness. It’s nice to have someone to cross-reference your childhood with.”
― We Could Be Rats
― We Could Be Rats
“It's brave of us to die! I know we have no choice, but that doesn’t make it any less brave. How tenderly I feel for all of us when I think of this. It makes me want to give up gossiping forever. If I get out of the desert alive, I’ll do my best.
How do you do it, Dad? How do you die?
He doesn’t know either.
I have watched him at funerals. It seemed far off, that he would. Die. Later, later, there would be time for that later. He was immunized by time. And if he was immune, then I was extra immune. Graveside, we stood there like winners. And the one in the ground had lost. But the win was temporary, and the time was speeding up. Everybody into the ground. Everybody already in the ground.”
― Death Valley
How do you do it, Dad? How do you die?
He doesn’t know either.
I have watched him at funerals. It seemed far off, that he would. Die. Later, later, there would be time for that later. He was immunized by time. And if he was immune, then I was extra immune. Graveside, we stood there like winners. And the one in the ground had lost. But the win was temporary, and the time was speeding up. Everybody into the ground. Everybody already in the ground.”
― Death Valley
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