Where the Crawdads Sing Quotes

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Delia Owens (Author of Where the Crawdads Sing)

“A simple hope of being with someone, of actually being wanted, of being touched, had drawn her in. But these hurried groping hands were only a taking, not a sharing or giving.” (Where the Crawdads Sing Quotes)
Delia Owens
Where the Crawdads Sing

“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

“Faces change with life’s toll, but eyes remain a window to what was…”
Delia Owens
Where the Crawdads Sing

“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 Owens
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.”
Delia Owens
Where the Crawdads Sing

“How much do you trade to defeat loneliness?”
Delia Owens
Where the Crawdads Sing

“I wasn’t aware that words could hold so much. I didn’t know a sentence could be so full.”
Delia Owens
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.”
Delia Owens
Where the Crawdads Sing

“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.”
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“She laughed for his sake, something she’d never done. Giving away another piece of herself just to have someone else.”
Delia Owens
Where the Crawdads Sing