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“I have to say I am relieved it is over: At the end I could feel only pity For that urge toward more life. . . . Goodbye.”
― Where the Crawdads Sing
― Where the Crawdads Sing
“Leaning on someone leaves you on the ground.”
― Where the Crawdads Sing
― Where the Crawdads Sing
“was headed for Nebraska. Now there’s a sentence you don’t want to have to say too often if you can possibly help it. Nebraska must be the most unexciting of all the states. Compared with it, Iowa is paradise. Iowa at least is fertile and green and has a hill. Nebraska is like a 75,000-square-mile bare patch.”
― The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America
― The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America
“Finally the fear came. From a place deeper than the sea. Fear from knowing she would be alone again. Probably always. A life sentence.”
― Where the Crawdads Sing
― Where the Crawdads Sing
“There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.”
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