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BookrooBook ClubsShop BooksBook RegistrySign inbookWhere the Crawdads Sing Quotes31 of the best book quotes from Where the Crawdads Sing01“Female fireflies draw in strange males with dishonest signals and eat them; mantis females devour their own mates. Female insects, Kya thought, know how to deal with their lovers.”Delia OwensauthorWhere the Crawdads Singbookdangerousᐧbugsconcepts02“There are sounds, of course, but compared to the marsh, the swamp is quiet because decomposition is cellular work.”Delia OwensauthorWhere the Crawdads Singbooknoisesconcept03“Why should the injured, the still bleeding, bear the onus of forgiveness?”Delia OwensauthorWhere the Crawdads Singbookinjuriesᐧforgivenessconcepts04“There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot.”Delia OwensauthorWhere the Crawdads Singbookcharacterconcept05“Please don’t talk to me about isolation. No one has to tell me how it changes a person. I have lived it. I am isolation.Delia OwensauthorWhere the Crawdads SingbookCatherine D. Clarkcharacterlonelinessconcept06“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.”Delia OwensauthorWhere the Crawdads Singbooknatureᐧearthconcepts07“Faces change with life’s toll, but eyes remain a window to what was...”Delia OwensauthorWhere the Crawdads Singbookeyesconcept08“Time is no more fixed than the stars. Time speeds and bends around planets and suns, is different in the mountains than in the valleys, and is part of the same fabric as space, which curves and swells as does the sea.”Delia OwensauthorWhere the Crawdads Singbookouter spaceᐧtimeconcepts09“Autumn leaves don’t fall, they fly. They take their time and wander on this their only chance to soar.”Delia OwensauthorWhere the Crawdads Singbookautumnᐧseasonsconcepts10“The marsh did not confine them but defined them and, like any sacred ground, kept their secrets deep.”Delia OwensauthorWhere the Crawdads Singbooksecretsconcept11“Needing people ended in hurt.”Delia OwensauthorWhere the Crawdads Singbookpeopleᐧhurtingconcepts12“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.”Delia OwensauthorWhere the Crawdads Singbookfriendshipᐧwomenconcepts13“‘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.‘”Delia OwensauthorWhere the Crawdads SingbookTate WalkerᐧCatherine D. ClarkᐧJulienne M. Jacquescharactersexploringconcept14“If anyone would understand loneliness, the moon would.”Delia OwensauthorWhere the Crawdads Singbooklonelinessᐧmoonconcepts15“Perhaps love is best left as a fallow field.”Delia OwensauthorWhere the Crawdads Singbookloveconcept16“Leaning on someone leaves you on the ground.”Delia OwensauthorWhere the Crawdads Singbookbeing supportiveconcept17“How much do you trade to defeat loneliness?”Delia OwensauthorWhere the Crawdads Singbooklonelinessconcept18“She knew the years of isolation had altered her behavior until she was different from others, but it wasn’t her fault she’d been alone. Most of what she knew, she’d learned from the wild. Nature had nurtured, tutored, and protected her when no one else would.”Delia OwensauthorWhere the Crawdads Singbooknatureᐧcharacterᐧlonelinessconcepts19“Sand keeps secrets better than mud.”Delia OwensauthorWhere the Crawdads Singbooksecretsconcept20“Loneliness has a compass of its own.”Delia OwensauthorWhere the Crawdads Singbooklonelinessconcept21“I wasn’t aware that words could hold so much. I didn’t know a sentence could be so full.”Delia OwensauthorWhere the Crawdads Singbookwordsconcept22“That’s what sisters and girlfriends are all about. Sticking together even in the mud, ’specially in mud.”Delia OwensauthorWhere the Crawdads Singbookwomenᐧfriendshipᐧloyaltyconcepts23“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.”Delia OwensauthorWhere the Crawdads Singbookmenconcept24“Unworthy boys make a lot of noise”Delia OwensauthorWhere the Crawdads Singbookmenconcept25“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 OwensauthorWhere the Crawdads Singbookconnectionᐧloveconcepts26“She laughed for his sake, something she’d never done. Giving away another piece of herself just to have someone else.”Delia OwensauthorWhere the Crawdads Singbooklonelinessconcept27“Time ensures children never know their parents young.”Delia OwensauthorParentspersonWhere the Crawdads Singbooktimeconcept28“She could read anything now, he said, and once you can read anything you can learn everything. It was up to her. “Nobody’s come close to filling their brains,” he said. “We’re all like giraffes not using their necks to reach the higher leaves.”Delia OwensauthorWhere the Crawdads Singbookreadingconcept29“Never underrate the heart, Capable of deeds The mind cannot conceive. The heart dictates as well as feels. How else can you explain The path I have taken, That you have taken The long way through this pass?”Delia OwensauthorWhere the Crawdads Singbookloveconcept30“Biology sees right and wrong as the same color in different light.”Delia OwensauthorWhere the Crawdads Singbookbiologyconcept31“Kids are smarter than we think. They know how to survive the shit that’s dealt them better than some welfare worker who never spent a day in one of those kids’ shoes.”Glendy VanderahauthorWhere the Crawdads Singbookchildrenᐧintelligenceconcepts

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