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Kathy Thaxter

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The Vacationers by Emma Straub

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Islands, being harder to get to, naturally separated some of the wheat from the chaff, which was the entire philosophy behind places like Nantucket, where children grew up feeling entitled to private beaches and loud pants.

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

by Jeanette Winterson

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Kathy’s Quotes

“Grownups have it in them to be creative, and sometimes, with the help of ambition, hard work, and a bit of luck they actually are, but being grownups, they have no sooner created some epoch-making invention than they become a slave to it.”
― Gunter Grass

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“Ariadne in the labyrinth. The most alive of worlds, human beings with the tenderest flesh, are made of marble. I strew devastation as I pass. I wander dead-eyed through cities and petrified populations.”
― Jean Genet, Our Lady of the Flowers

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“He knelt among the shadows and felt his isolation bitterly. They were savages it was true; but they were human.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

tags: human, human-nature, monsters, ralph, savages, survival

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“My heart's in my hand, and my hand is pierced, and my hand's in the bag, and the bag is shut, and my heart is caught.”
― Jean Genet, Our Lady of the Flowers

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