Top 450 Delia Owens Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “Yes, Chase had laid out a banquet, but she was worth more than fried chicken.”

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452. “Faces change with life’s toll, but eyes remain a window to what was, and she could see him there. “Jodie, I’m so.”

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453. “Autumn was coming; the evergreens might not have noticed, but the sycamores did.”

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454. “But this time there was laughter and love.”

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455. “Who decides the time to die?”

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456. “The Game 1960 The next noon, hands on her cheeks, Kya approached the stump slowly, almost in prayer. But no feather on the stump. Her lips pinched. “A’ course. I gotta leave something for him.”

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457. “White Canoe 1960.”

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458. “I brought them in case you were still here. Rosemary sent these to me. She said that for years, day and night, Ma painted us.”

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459. “For months Ma was mute, didn’t speak one word. She stayed in her old room in her parents’ home, barely eating. Of course, they had doctors come out, but no one could help her. Ma’s father contacted the sheriff in Barkley Cove to ask if Ma’s children were all right, but his office said they didn’t even try to keep track of the marsh people.”

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460. “Why would Chase open this one in the.”

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461. “Not knowing how to count the exact amount, she laid down the whole dollar.”

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462. “Oh, by the way,” Chase said. “I have to drive over to Asheville in a few days to buy goods for the.”

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463. “The sheriff was silent a few seconds. “I don’t know. Maybe I’m getting old and soft at the grand ol’ age of fifty-one. But running down a woman with hounds for questioning doesn’t seem right. It’s fine for escaped convicts, people already convicted of some crime. But, like everybody else, she’s innocent until proven guilty, and I can’t see setting hounds on a female suspect. Maybe as a last resort, but not yet.”

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464. “Even male birds woo the females for a while, flashing brilliant feathers, building bowers, staging magnificent dances and love songs. Yes, Chase had laid out a banquet, but she was worth more than fried chicken. And “Dixie” didn’t count as a love song.”

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465. “Pennies and Grits 1956.”

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466. “She was better off to leave ’em, heal herself up, then whelp more when she could raise ’em good.”

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467. “Slowly, she unraveled each word of the sentence: “’There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot.”

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468. “Her carefully labeled samples, more than fifty years’ worth, was the longest-running, most complete collection of its kind. She had requested that it be donated to Archbald Lab, and someday he would do so, but parting with it now was unthinkable.”

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469. “Yeah, we all got magnolia mouth, being from the North Carolina sticks, but we have to try.”

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470. “It’s a two-day job, so we’ll have to stay overnight.”

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471. “Talvez alguns sonhos devessem simplesmente passar.”

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472. “A lesser male needs to shout to be noticed.”

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473. “She cooked a Southern supper as Ma would have: black-eyed peas with red onions, fried ham, cornbread with cracklin’, butter beans cooked in butter and milk. Blackberry cobbler with hard cream with some bourbon Jodie brought.”

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474. “Failure was an option we simply could not afford. We had invested all our savings -our dreams and our pride- in this venture. There was no reason to turn around; there was nothing to go back to.”

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475. “A small covey gathered around Chase’s parents. Patti Love wept. Sarah Singletary scowled like everybody else but discovered that she was greatly relieved. Miss Pansy hoped no one saw her jaw relax. A lone tear trailed down Mrs. Culpepper’s cheek, and then a shadow smile for the little swamp truant escaping again.”

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476. “Autumn leaves don’t fall, they fly. They take their time and wander on this their only chance to soar.”

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477. “She had no notion how to talk to kids, certainly not to a teacher, but she wanted to learn to read and what came after twenty-nine.”

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478. “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.”

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479. “Months passed, winter easing gently into place, as southern winters do. The sun, warm as a blanket, wrapped Kya’s shoulders, coaxing her deeper into the marsh. Sometimes she heard night-sounds she didn’t know or jumped from lightning too close, but whenever she stumbled, it was the land that 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.”

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480. “She insisted on keeping the kitchen as it was and the exterior unpainted, so that the dwelling, more of a cabin now, remained weathered and real.”

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481. “As they climbed, the round corners of the world moved out farther and farther, the lush, rounded forests and watery marsh expanding to the very rims.”

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482. “In a whisper, she asked, “Who’s who?”

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483. “Imagination grows in the lonliest of soils.”

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484. “The royalty checks would come in every six months, they said, and might be several thousand dollars each.”

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485. “Clouds lazed in the folded arms of the hills, then billowed up and drifted away. Some tendrils twisted into tight spirals and traced the warmer ravines, behaving like mist tracking the dank fens of the marsh. The same game of physics playing on a different field of biology.”

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486. “Mrs. Singletary’s hair was cut short, curled tight, and colored purple as an iris in sunlight.”

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487. “So she planned up something that lots of people would see her do. Making a great alibi right in front of all those folks on Main Street. Brilliant.”

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488. “Had he not been so obsessed with his own heart, perhaps he would have noticed his father’s was failing.”

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489. “She sent her toes on missions to scout for cool spots between the sheets, but they found none.”

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490. “Then swore louder and meaner than the wind.”

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491. “Before moving, Vern stared for a long minute at Chase, as though he had overlooked something. As a doctor, he should fix this. Heavy swamp air stood.”

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492. “Pa had always bought the kerosene and filled the lamp, so she hadn’t thought much about it. Until it was dark.”

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