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“Just like their whiskey, the marsh dwellers bootlegged their own laws - not like those burned onto stone tablets or inscribed on documents, but deeper ones, stamped in their genes.”
― Where the Crawdads Sing
― Where the Crawdads Sing
“His dad had 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. Scupper”
― Where the Crawdads Sing
― Where the Crawdads Sing
“Sometimes she heard night-sounds she didn't know or jumped from lightning too close, but whenever she stumbled, it was the land who caught her. Until at last, at some unclaimed moment, the heart-pain seeped away like water into sand. Still there, but deep. Kya laid her hand upon the breathing, wet earth, and the marsh became her mother.”
― Where the Crawdads Sing
― Where the Crawdads Sing
“Within all the worlds of biology, she searched for an explanation of why a mother would leave her offspring”
― Where the Crawdads Sing
― Where the Crawdads Sing
“When cornered, desperate, or isolated, man reverts to those instincts that aim straight at survival. Quick and just. They will always be the trump cards because they are passed on more frequently from one generation to the next than the gentler genes. It is not a morality, but simple math. Among themselves, doves fight as often as hawks.”
― Where the Crawdads Sing
― Where the Crawdads Sing
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