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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.
“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.”
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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.”
― Our Lady of the Flowers
― Our Lady of the Flowers
“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
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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.”
― Our Lady of the Flowers
― Our Lady of the Flowers
“Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.”
― The Tin Drum
― The Tin Drum
Kathy’s 2025 Year in Books
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