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Where the Crawdads Sing

by Delia Owens (Goodreads Author)

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Feb 06, 2025 11:35AM

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“Nostalgia demands an admission that the present is not so good.”
― Nicola Dinan, Disappoint Me

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“This is also the world where people, often women, are doomed to spend much of their lives forgiving the errors of others and suffering for the sake of other people’s growth. Sometimes there’s nothing to do but leave, and sometimes there’s nothing to do but forgive.”
― Nicola Dinan, Disappoint Me

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“I suppose intellectualizing our experiences is just another way to depersonalize them. Strip them of pain we would otherwise feel, and replace it with pain we can merely think about.”
― Nicola Dinan, Disappoint Me

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“You know how you can remember exactly when and where you read certain books? A great novel, a truly great one, not only captures a particular fictional experience, it alters and intensifies the way you experience your own life while you’re reading it. And it preserves it, like a time capsule.”
― Lily King, Heart the Lover

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“I think it’s the only form of hope we have. For our survival, I mean. What good is any other virtue without love?

In literature love is a weakness. Othello is easily manipulated by Iago because of his love for Desdemona. Anna Karenina throws herself under a train. Othello places his trust in Iago, not Desdemona. Anna Karenina’s society does not allow her to be with Vronsky.

Love is not the weakness. People get in its way. People are weak and perilous, not love.”
― Lily King, Heart the Lover

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