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Delia Owens Quote: “No one in the room had ever experienced this collective heart pounding, this shared lack of breath. Eyes shifted, hands sweated. The shrimper crew, Hal Miller, knotted his mind, fighting to confirm that it truly was Miss Clark’s boat he had seen that night. Suppose he’d been wrong. Most stared, not at the back of Kya’s head, but at the floor, the walls. It seemed that the village – not Kya – awaited judgment, and few felt the salacious joy they had expected at this juncture.”

451. “No one in the room had ever experienced this collective heart pounding, this shared lack of breath. Eyes shifted, hands sweated. The shrimper crew, Hal Miller, knotted his mind, fighting to confirm that it truly was Miss Clark’s boat he had seen that night. Suppose he’d been wrong. Most stared, not at the back of Kya’s head, but at the floor, the walls. It seemed that the village – not Kya – awaited judgment, and few felt the salacious joy they had expected at this juncture.”

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Delia Owens Quote: “Kya wondered who started using the word cell instead of cage.”

452. “Kya wondered who started using the word cell instead of cage.”

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Delia Owens Quote: “Ma warning her older sisters about young men who overrevved their rusted-out pickups or drove jalopies around with radios blaring. “Unworthy boys make a lot of noise,” Ma had said.”

453. “Ma warning her older sisters about young men who overrevved their rusted-out pickups or drove jalopies around with radios blaring. “Unworthy boys make a lot of noise,” Ma had said.”

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Delia Owens Quote: “Without another word, he got in his boat and motored across the lagoon. Just before entering the thick brambles of the channel, he turned and waved. She lifted her hand high above her head, and then touched it to her heart.”

454. “Without another word, he got in his boat and motored across the lagoon. Just before entering the thick brambles of the channel, he turned and waved. She lifted her hand high above her head, and then touched it to her heart.”

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Delia Owens Quote: “One at a time, then ten at a time, then hundreds of geese landed only yards from where Kya and Tate had sat under the ferns. The sky emptied as the wet meadow filled until it was covered in downy snow. No fancy dining room could compare to that, and the coon balls offered more spice and flare than almond-crusted trout.”

455. “One at a time, then ten at a time, then hundreds of geese landed only yards from where Kya and Tate had sat under the ferns. The sky emptied as the wet meadow filled until it was covered in downy snow. No fancy dining room could compare to that, and the coon balls offered more spice and flare than almond-crusted trout.”

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Delia Owens Quote: “She touched the pages and remembered each shell and the story of finding it, where it lay on the beach, the season, the sunrise. A family album.”

456. “She touched the pages and remembered each shell and the story of finding it, where it lay on the beach, the season, the sunrise. A family album.”

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Delia Owens Quote: “Breathing hard, he stared at his decision hiding there in cord grass: Kya or everything else.”

457. “Breathing hard, he stared at his decision hiding there in cord grass: Kya or everything else.”

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Delia Owens Quote: “In the distance, the sea and sky sang too bright for this serious ground.”

458. “In the distance, the sea and sky sang too bright for this serious ground.”

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Delia Owens Quote: “She anchored him hard with her eyes. Afraid to go near him, afraid not to.”

459. “She anchored him hard with her eyes. Afraid to go near him, afraid not to.”

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Delia Owens Quote: “Kya was the youngest of five, the others much older, though later she couldn’t recall their ages.”

460. “Kya was the youngest of five, the others much older, though later she couldn’t recall their ages.”

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Delia Owens Quote: “Now at last Kya could label all her precious specimens. She took each feather, insect, shell, or.”

461. “Now at last Kya could label all her precious specimens. She took each feather, insect, shell, or.”

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Delia Owens Quote: “But in her twenty-second year, more than a year after Chase and Pearl announced their engagement, she walked the sandy lane, blistering with heat, to the mailbox every day and looked inside. Finally one morning, she found a bulky manila envelope and slid the contents – an advance copy of The Sea Shells of the Eastern Seaboard, by Catherine Danielle Clark – into her hands. She breathed in, no one to show it to.”

462. “But in her twenty-second year, more than a year after Chase and Pearl announced their engagement, she walked the sandy lane, blistering with heat, to the mailbox every day and looked inside. Finally one morning, she found a bulky manila envelope and slid the contents – an advance copy of The Sea Shells of the Eastern Seaboard, by Catherine Danielle Clark – into her hands. She breathed in, no one to show it to.”

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Delia Owens Quote: “Imagination grows in the lonliest of soils.”

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

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Delia Owens Quote: “She needed this boat and that boy.”

464. “She needed this boat and that boy.”

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Delia Owens Quote: “And later, just as she forgot their ages, she couldn’t remember their real names, only that they were called Missy, Murph, and Mandy.”

465. “And later, just as she forgot their ages, she couldn’t remember their real names, only that they were called Missy, Murph, and Mandy.”

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Delia Owens Quote: “And yet here was an extra spark plug, to be set aside until needed. A surplus. Her heart filled up.”

466. “And yet here was an extra spark plug, to be set aside until needed. A surplus. Her heart filled up.”

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Delia Owens Quote: “Happy birthday, Kya,” he said. “You’re fifteen.”

467. “Happy birthday, Kya,” he said. “You’re fifteen.”

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Delia Owens Quote: “Finally she said, “What do you want now, Tate?” “If only you could, some way, forgive me.” He breathed in and waited.”

468. “Finally she said, “What do you want now, Tate?” “If only you could, some way, forgive me.” He breathed in and waited.”

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Delia Owens Quote: “From the Marsh Girl Tate read the words, then turned away, staring.”

469. “From the Marsh Girl Tate read the words, then turned away, staring.”

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Delia Owens Quote: “Child to child. Eye to eye. We grew as one, sharing souls. Wing by wing, leaf by leaf you left this world, you died before the child. My friend, the Wild.”

470. “Child to child. Eye to eye. We grew as one, sharing souls. Wing by wing, leaf by leaf you left this world, you died before the child. My friend, the Wild.”

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Delia Owens Quote: “No fancy dining room could compare to that, and the coon balls offered more spice and flare than almond-crusted trout.”

471. “No fancy dining room could compare to that, and the coon balls offered more spice and flare than almond-crusted trout.”

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Delia Owens Quote: “She knew it wasn’t Chase she mourned, but a.”

472. “She knew it wasn’t Chase she mourned, but a.”

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Delia Owens Quote: “Joe held up a red wool hat. “Where’d you find that?” “Right here, hangin’ on this row of hooks with these coats, other hats, and stuff.”

473. “Joe held up a red wool hat. “Where’d you find that?” “Right here, hangin’ on this row of hooks with these coats, other hats, and stuff.”

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Delia Owens Quote: “Just being near him, and not even that close, had eased her tightness. For the first time since Ma and Jodie left, she breathed without pain; felt something other than the hurt. She needed this boat and that boy.”

474. “Just being near him, and not even that close, had eased her tightness. For the first time since Ma and Jodie left, she breathed without pain; felt something other than the hurt. She needed this boat and that boy.”

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Delia Owens Quote: “Red Fibers 1969.”

475. “Red Fibers 1969.”

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Delia Owens Quote: “They had abandoned her to survive and defend herself. So here she was, by herself.”

476. “They had abandoned her to survive and defend herself. So here she was, by herself.”

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