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

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

“Why should the injured, the still bleeding, bear the onus of forgiveness?”
― 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

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

“Please don't talk to me about isolation. No one has to tell me how it changes a person. I have lived it. I am isolation," Kya whispered with a slight edge.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

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

“Needing people ended in hurt.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“Loneliness has a compass of its own.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“She'd given love a chance; now she wanted simply to fill the empty spaces. Ease the loneliness while walling off her heart.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“That’s what sisters and girlfriends are all about. Sticking together even in the mud, ’specially in mud.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“Leaning on someone leaves you on the ground.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“Not waiting for the sounds of someone was a release. And a strength.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“Imagination grows in the lonliest of soils”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“A simple hope of being with someone, of actually being wanted, of being touched, had drawn her in. But these hurried groping hands were only a taking, not a sharing or giving.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“Life had made her an expert at mashing feelings into a storable size.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“The marsh did not confine them but defined them and, like any sacred ground, kept their secrets deep.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“Kya remembered, those many years ago, Ma warning her older sisters about young men who overrevved their rusted-out pickups or drove jalopies around with radios blaring. “Unworthy boys make a lot of noise,” Ma had said. She read a consolation for females. Nature is audacious enough to ensure that the males who send out dishonest signals or go from one female to the next almost always end up alone.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“She never collected lightning bugs in bottles; you learn a lot more about something when it's not in a jar.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“But I knew this. I’ve known a long time that people don’t stay.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“There in the first row of seats in the court room, sitting with Tate, were Jumpin' and Mabel. Folks had made a stir when they walked in with Tate and sat downstairs in the "white area." But when the bailiff reported this to Judge Sims, still in his chambers, the judge told him to announce that anybody of any color or creed could sit anywhere they wanted in his courtroom, and if somebody didn't like it, they were free to leave. In fact, he'd make sure they did.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“some things can’t be explained, only forgiven or not.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“People forget about creatures that live in shells.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“Nature is audacious enough to ensure that the males who send out dishonest signals or go from one female to the next almost always end up alone.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“She hesitated; touching someone meant giving part of herself away, a piece she never got back.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“Kya never had her troop of close friends, nor the connections Jodie described, for she never had her own family. She knew the years of isolation had altered her behavior until she was different from others, but it wasn’t her fault she’d been alone. Most of what she knew, she’d learned from the wild. Nature had nurtured, tutored, and protected her when no one else would. If consequences resulted from her behaving differently, then they too were functions of life’s fundamental core.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“Within all the worlds of biology, she searched for an explanation of why a mother would leave her offspring”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“She knew that no part of this yearning made sense. Illogical behavior to fill an emptiness would not fulfill much more. How much do you trade to defeat lonesomeness?”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“I guess some things can’t be explained, only forgiven or not. I don’t know the answer. Maybe there isn’t one.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“People like you must create. If you don't create, Bernadette, you will become a menace to society.”
― Maria Semple, Where'd You Go, Bernadette