“It might be true that no man is an island,” she said, “but you know those peninsulas that are just connected by a really thin neck of land – a sandbar, even? And sometimes, when the tide is high, they get cut off, almost completely. I wouldn’t say that there weren’t people like that.”

“It might be true that no man is an island,” she said, “but you know those peninsulas that are just connected by a really thin neck of land – a sandbar, even? And sometimes, when the tide is high, they get cut off, almost completely. I wouldn’t say that there weren’t people like that.”

— A.L. Buehrer