Their fights didn’t so much end as dissipate, like a drop of ink in a bowl of water, with a residual taint that lingered.
“I’m a million cameras, even when I’m sleeping, clicking, clicking, every second something is growing and changing. We are little arrogant flashes in a grand magnificent scheme.”
― Lanny
― Lanny
“I must let go now. Let you go. Love is too often The answer for staying. Too seldom the reason For going. I drop the line And watch you drift away. “All along You thought The fiery current Of your lover’s breast Pulled you to the deep. But it was my heart-tide Releasing you To float adrift With seaweed.”
― Where the Crawdads Sing
― Where the Crawdads Sing
“Why should the injured, the still bleeding, bear the onus of forgiveness?”
― Where the Crawdads Sing
― Where the Crawdads Sing
“time is no more fixed than the stars. Time speeds and bends around planets and suns, is different in the mountains than in the valleys, and is part of the same fabric as space, which curves and swells as does the sea.”
― Where the Crawdads Sing
― Where the Crawdads Sing
“I was born without a voice, one cold, overcast day in Brooklyn, New York. No one ever spoke of my condition. I did not know I was mute until years later, when I opened my mouth to ask for what I wanted and realized no one could hear me.”
― A Woman Is No Man
― A Woman Is No Man
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