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“Autumn leaves don't fall, they fly. They take their time and wander on this their only chance to soar.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“I wasn't aware that words could hold so much. I didn't know a sentence could be so full.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“Why should the injured, the still bleeding, bear the onus of forgiveness?”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“It’s amazing how easily we can cast ourselves in the role of hero.”
― Erica Bauermeister, The Scent Keeper

“Scents were like rain, or birds. They left and came back.”
― Erica Bauermeister, The Scent Keeper

“We sat in silence, letting the green in the air heal what it could.”
― Erica Bauermeister, The Scent Keeper

“Maybe that’s how it always is, I thought—we all just go along, catching glimpses of one another, thinking we know everything.”
― Erica Bauermeister, The Scent Keeper

“I listened, while the scents found their hiding places in the cracks in the floorboards, and the words of the story, and the rest of my life.”
― Erica Bauermeister, The Scent Keeper

“Being vulnerable isn't a flaw. It is the most beautiful thing in the world. If you were invincible, being brave would be easy.”
― Natasha Ngan, Girls of Storm and Shadow

“Wren and I might not be Paper Girls anymore, but we are still capable of creating fire. And now we have a whole world to burn.”
― Natasha Ngan, Girls of Storm and Shadow

“I was a girl with fire in her veins.”
― Natasha Ngan, Girls of Storm and Shadow

“There is nothing stronger than people who endure the worst hardships in the world and still raise their fists at the start of a new day to fight all over again.”
― Natasha Ngan, Girls of Storm and Shadow

“She is my air. My shelter. Wren is my wings.”
― Natasha Ngan, Girls of Storm and Shadow

“Fear is good. It means you care. And caring is its own kind of magic. One just as powerful as any dao I can weave.”
― Natasha Ngan, Girls of Storm and Shadow

“I am still that girl of paper and fire - and I'm going to prove it to them.”
― Natasha Ngan, Girls of Storm and Shadow

“Light in, darkness out.”
― Natasha Ngan, Girls of Storm and Shadow

“We have a new goal now, Wren. One we can share the burden of together.”
― Natasha Ngan, Girls of Storm and Shadow

“Burn bright, my brave daughter.”
― Natasha Ngan, Girls of Storm and Shadow

“It’s easier to be strong when you’re doing it for someone else’s sake.”
― Natasha Ngan, Girls of Storm and Shadow

“I see you, the way you fight. The way you are towards others. You are soft where they are hard. You have love where they only have hate.”
― Natasha Ngan, Girls of Storm and Shadow

“Yet like most lies people tell themselves, it came apart in the shadow and quiet of the night.”
― Natasha Ngan, Girls of Storm and Shadow

“His dad had told him many times that the definition of a real man is one who cries without shame, reads poetry with his heart, feels opera in his soul, and does what’s necessary to defend a woman.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“Unworthy boys make a lot of noise”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“lot of times love doesn’t work out. Yet even when it fails, it connects you to others and, in the end, that is all you have, the connections.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“She laughed for his sake, something she’d never done. Giving away another piece of herself just to have someone else.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“If anyone would understand loneliness, the moon would.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“Time ensures children never know their parents young.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“How much do you trade to defeat loneliness?”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“Faces change with life's toll, but eyes remain a window to what was...”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing