Daniel was malleable, everyone and no one, a collector of moods, a careful observer of the right thing to say.
“Sand keeps secrets better than mud.”
― Where the Crawdads Sing
― Where the Crawdads Sing
“The main one I could understand was that money-earning ones pay taxes. Whereas you can’t collect shit on what people grow and eat on the spot, or the work they swap with their neighbors. That’s like a percent of blood from a turnip. So, the ones in charge started cooking it into everybody’s brains to look down on the land people, saying we are an earlier stage of human, like junior varsity or cavemen. Weird-shaped heads.”
― Demon Copperhead
― Demon Copperhead
“I wasn't aware that words could hold so much. I didn't know a sentence could be so full.”
― Where the Crawdads Sing
― Where the Crawdads Sing
“Ya need some girlfriends, hon, ’cause they’re furever. Without a vow. A clutch of women’s the most tender, most tough place on Earth.”
― Where the Crawdads Sing
― Where the Crawdads Sing
“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.”
― Where the Crawdads Sing
― Where the Crawdads Sing
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