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Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens 3,628,710 ratings, 4.37 average rating, 225,835 reviews Where the Crawdads Sing Quotes Showing 61-90 of 1,292 “There in the first row of seats in the court room, sitting with Tate, were Jumpin' and Mabel. Folks had made a stir when they walked in with Tate and sat downstairs in the "white area." But when the bailiff reported this to Judge Sims, still in his chambers, the judge told him to announce that anybody of any color or creed could sit anywhere they wanted in his courtroom, and if somebody didn't like it, they were free to leave. In fact, he'd make sure they did.” ― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing 21 likes Like “...judgement had no place here. Evil was not in play, just life pulsing on, even at the expense of some of the participants. Biology sees right and wrong as the same color in different light. Nothing seemed too indecorous as long as the tick & the tock of life carried on. She knew this was not a dark side to Nature, just inventive ways to endure against all odds.” ― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing 20 likes Like “Among themselves, doves fight as often as hawks.” ― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing 20 likes Like “Nature had nurtured, tutored, and protected her when no one else would.” ― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing 18 likes Like “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” ― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing 18 likes Like “once you can read anything you can learn everything.” ― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing 17 likes Like “People forget about creatures that live in shells.” ― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing tags: wildlife 16 likes Like “She spoke almost in a whisper. “I wadn’t aware that words could hold so much. I didn’t know a sentence could be so full.” ― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing 16 likes Like “Unworthy boys make a lot of noise,” ― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing 16 likes Like “Speaking out loud, she recited an Amanda Hamilton poem: “I must let go now. Let you go. Love is too often The answer for staying. Too seldom the reason For going. I drop the line And watch you drift away. “All along You thought The fiery current Of your lover’s breast Pulled you to the deep. But it was my heart-tide Releasing you To float adrift With seaweed.” ― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing 15 likes Like “Yet in reality, she was only an abandoned child, a little girl surviving on her own in a swamp, hungry and cold, but we didn’t help her. Except for one of her only friends, Jumpin’, not one of our churches or community groups offered her food or clothes. Instead we labeled and rejected her because we thought she was different. But, ladies and gentlemen, did we exclude Miss Clark because she was different, or was she different because we excluded her?” ― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing 14 likes Like “She knew it wasn’t Chase she mourned, but a life defined by rejections. As the sky and clouds struggled overhead, she said out loud, “I have to do life alone. But I knew this. I’ve known a long time that people don’t stay.” ― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing 14 likes Like “I guess some things can’t be explained, only forgiven or not. I don’t know the answer. Maybe there isn’t one.” ― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing 14 likes Like “Nature is audacious enough to ensure that the males who send out dishonest signals or go from one female to the next almost always end up alone.” ― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing 14 likes Like “A great blue heron is the color of gray mist reflecting in blue water.” ― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing 13 likes Like “And just at that second, the wind picked up, and thousands upon thousands of yellow sycamore leaves broke from their life support and streamed across the sky. 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 tags: freedom, golden-years, retirement 13 likes Like “If anyone understood loneliness, the moon would.” ― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing tags: loneliness, moon 13 likes Like “Don't go on thinking poetry's just for sissies. There's mushy love poems, for sure, but there's also funny ones, lots about nature, war even. Whole point of it-they make ya feel something” ― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing 13 likes Like “She knew that no part of this yearning made sense. Illogical behavior to fill an emptiness would not fulfill much more. How much do you trade to defeat lonesomeness?” ― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing 13 likes Like “Within all the worlds of biology, she searched for an explanation of why a mother would leave her offspring” ― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing 13 likes Like “She hesitated; touching someone meant giving part of herself away, a piece she never got back.” ― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing 12 likes Like “We are married. Like the geese.” ― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing tags: love, marriage, nature 12 likes Like “How much do you trade to defeat lonesomeness?” ― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing tags: loneliness, longing 12 likes Like “Slowly, she unraveled each word of the sentence: “‘There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot.’” “Oh,” she said. “Oh.” “You can read, Kya. There will never be a time again when you can’t read.” “It ain’t just that.” She spoke almost in a whisper. “I wadn’t aware that words could hold so much. I didn’t know a sentence could be so full.” He smiled. “That’s a very good sentence. Not all words hold that much.” ― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing 12 likes Like “Before the feather game, loneliness had become a natural appendage to Kya, like an arm. Now it grew roots inside her and pressed against her chest.” ― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing 11 likes Like “Kya wondered who started using the word cell instead of cage.” ― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing 11 likes Like “Slowly, she unraveled each word of the sentence: “‘There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot.” ― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing 11 likes Like “You can’t get hurt when you love someone from the other side of an estuary. All the years she rejected him, she survived because he was somewhere in the marsh, waiting. But now perhaps he would no longer be there.” ― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing 11 likes Like “Death’s crude pluck, as always, stealing the show.” ― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing 11 likes Like “Kya never had her troop of close friends, nor the connections Jodie described, for she never had her own family. 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. If consequences resulted from her behaving differently, then they too were functions of life’s fundamental core.” ― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing 11 likes Like « previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 … 43 44 next »

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