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

“Let's face it, a 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

“It is as if I wrote in order to forget.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“Don't go thinking poetry's just for sissies. There's mushy love poems, for sure, but there's also funny ones, lots about nature, war even. Whole point of it --they make ya feel something." His dad 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