“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.”
― Where the Crawdads Sing
Tate said, "Just means far in the bush where critters are wild, still behaving like critters.”
― Where the Crawdads Sing
“Change is about noticing what’s no longer working and stepping out of the familiar, imprisoning patterns.”
― The Choice
― The Choice
“Sand keeps secrets better than mud.”
― Where the Crawdads Sing
― Where the Crawdads Sing
“But over time I learned that I can choose how to respond to the past. I can be miserable, or I can be hopeful—I can be depressed, or I can be happy. We always have that choice, that opportunity for control. I’m here, this is now, I have learned to tell myself, over and over, until the panicky feeling begins to ease.”
― The Choice: Embrace the Possible
― The Choice: Embrace the Possible
“How easily a life can become a litany of guilt and regret, a song that keeps echoing with the same chorus, with the inability to forgive ourselves. How easily the life we didn’t live becomes the only life we prize. How easily we are seduced by the fantasy that we are in control, that we were ever in control, that the things we could or should have done or said have the power, if only we had done or said them, to cure pain, to erase suffering, to vanish loss. How easily we can cling to—worship—the choices we think we could or should have made.”
― The Choice
― The Choice
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