Emily Pollack

“Autumn leaves don’t fall; they fly. They take their time and wander on this, their only chance to soar.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“I was a kid who’d failed freshman year at the regular public high school because she never showed up.”
― Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

“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

“Sadie told me years later. “We couldn’t help it. They played music that when you heard it just put your soul into it. We’d two-step across that floor, jiggle to some blues, then somebody maybe put a quarter in there and play a slow music song, and Lord we’d just get out there and shake and turn around and all like that!” She giggled like a young girl. “It was some beautiful times.”
― Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks