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“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

“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

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

“What d'ya mean, where the crawdads sing? Ma used to say that." Kya remembered Ma always encouraging her to explore the marsh: "Go as far as you can --- way out yonder where the crawdads sing."
Tate said, "Just means far in the bush where critters are wild, still behaving like critters.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“Sand keeps secrets better than mud.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“A resident took offence at being woken up at the crack of afternoon by this noise (it was just after 1pm when the incident occurred).”
― Nick Pettigrew, Anti-Social: The Secret Diary of an Anti-Social Behaviour Officer

“A book that sits on a shelf is nothing but a bundle of paper. Unless it's opened, a book possessing great power or an epic story is a mere scrap of paper. But a book that has been cherished and loved, filled with human thoughts, has been endowed with a soul.
- Tiger, the cat”
― Sōsuke Natsukawa, The Cat Who Saved Books

“I didn't want a world in which I had to choose between blind human babies and tortured monkey ones. To be frank, that's the sort of choice I expect science to protect me from, not give me.”
― Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

“Hate is loud, but I think you'll learn it's because it's only a few people shouting, desperate to be heard. You might not ever be able to change their minds, but so long as your remember you're not alone, you will overcome.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“You don’t get over losing someone you love in six months or two years or twenty, but you do have to find a way to carry on living without feeling as if everything that comes afterward is second best. Some people walk up mountains, others throw themselves out of planes. Everyone has to find their own way back, and if they’re lucky they’ll have people who love them to hold their hand.”
― Josie Silver, The Two Lives of Lydia Bird

“He understood the sense of profound absence when your love is no longer present in your life, how it can feel as if they've taken too many pieces of you with them for you to function. Not as you were anyway. I've had to examine the pieces of me left behind and build a new version of myself, Lydia 2.0, bolting new bits on over time.”
― Josie Silver, The Two Lives of Lydia Bird

“Grief is an odd thing. It's mine and no one can do it for me but, there's been a whole supporting cast of silent actors around me in the wings.”
― Josie Silver, The Two Lives of Lydia Bird

“I feel simultaneously intensely insignificant and hyperaware of how important everyone is.”
― Emily R. Austin, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

“My mother had a baby, and her mother had a baby, and her mother had a baby. Every woman in my family before me lived to have a baby—just so that baby could grow up to have another baby. If I don’t have a baby, then all of those women reproduced just so that I could exist. I am the final product. I am the final baby.”
― Emily R. Austin, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

“It takes just one person to end a marriage”
― Sarah Crossan

“Marriage is work, that's the point.”
― Sarah Crossan, Here Is the Beehive

“I want him to tell me that our love shattered you.
I want him to tell me that if you were alive
you would have picked me
eventually.”
― Sarah Crossan, Here Is the Beehive

“If you lived in a city for long enough, the streets and the places where life happens fold inwards, like paper, making space for new memories. Yet visiting old haunts and a long forgotten road was like stretching the concertina out again - the memories leap out, fresh as the day you folded them away.”
― Sarah Morgan, Snowed In for Christmas

“December 11 1959
Dear Mr Thornton,
Coward!
Yours sincerely,
Florence Green”
― Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop

“Smiler, this damn tea so weak it nearly a fortnight!”
― Mike Gayle, All the Lonely People

“Each day, I was building a life of my choosing, and it was a good life. I knew what was missing, but I was also appreciative of what was there.”
― Shelley Read, Go as a River

“Women endure. That’s what we do.”
“That’s nonsense,” she replied more harshly than I expected. “A woman is more than a vessel meant to carry babies and grief.”
― Shelley Read, Go as a River

“My days had not felt so expansive since that early summer in the mountain hut when I first learned to trust the hours instead of fill them.”
― Shelley Read, Go as a River

“But I’ve come to understand how the exceptional lurks beneath the ordinary, like the deep and mysterious world beneath the surface of the sea.”
― Shelley Read, Go as a River

“When I was fourteen, a cousin of my father's offered marriage, As many manners as he had teeth, and three wives in the ground already. It was astonishing how fast I realised my path lay with Christ.
-Alys-”
― Sophie Keetch

“it's not about you Morgan, Ninianne said. It's about them - men, their power, their battles, their pride. Everything they do is to provide them with what they need, no matter the cost.”
― Sophie Keetch, Morgan Is My Name

“My name is Morgan,” I said. “And there aren’t enough words for all that I am.”
― Sophie Keetch, Morgan Is My Name

“My mother was marble, her strength cool and smooth and patient; I was dark and made of shards, formed under pressure in places light did not reach. I was flint and always had been.
And I was also steel: hard, forged in blazes, bright and glittering sharp.”
― Sophie Keetch, Morgan Is My Name

“In truth, Morgan, I can no longer remember when I haven’t thought of you. It’s as if you’ve been my whole life.”
― Sophie Keetch, Morgan Is My Name

“How many times can someone bend before they break forever? You have to take care, dealing with broken things; sometimes they give way, and break others in their turn.”
― Catriona Ward, The Last House on Needless Street