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

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

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Delia Owens Quote: “We’re all like giraffes not using their necks to reach the higher leaves.”

452. “We’re all like giraffes not using their necks to reach the higher leaves.”

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Delia Owens Quote: “Hello, dear, I’m Mrs. Culpepper. You’re all grown up and ready to go to school, aren’t ya?”

453. “Hello, dear, I’m Mrs. Culpepper. You’re all grown up and ready to go to school, aren’t ya?”

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Delia Owens Quote: “But, being only seven and a girl, she’d never taken the boat out by herself.”

454. “But, being only seven and a girl, she’d never taken the boat out by herself.”

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Delia Owens Quote: “Ma had painted the estuaries and sunsets in oils and watercolors so rich they seemed peeled from the earth. She had brought some art supplies with her and could buy bits and pieces at Kress’s Five and Dime. Sometimes Ma had let Kya paint her own pictures on brown paper bags from the Piggly Wiggly.”

455. “Ma had painted the estuaries and sunsets in oils and watercolors so rich they seemed peeled from the earth. She had brought some art supplies with her and could buy bits and pieces at Kress’s Five and Dime. Sometimes Ma had let Kya paint her own pictures on brown paper bags from the Piggly Wiggly.”

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Delia Owens Quote: “The same game of physics playing on a different field of biology.”

456. “The same game of physics playing on a different field of biology.”

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Delia Owens Quote: “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.”

457. “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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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.”

458. “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: “We were the victims, not the guilty.” He smiled. “Thank you, Kya.”

459. “We were the victims, not the guilty.” He smiled. “Thank you, Kya.”

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Delia Owens Quote: “As always, the ocean seemed angrier than the marsh. Deeper, it had more to say.”

460. “As always, the ocean seemed angrier than the marsh. Deeper, it had more to say.”

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Delia Owens Quote: “But in fact, the restaurant, with all its glitter, wasn’t nearly as grand as her favorite picnic. When she was fifteen, Tate had boated to her shack one dawn, and, after he’d wrapped a blanket around her shoulders, they cruised inland through a maze of waterways to a forest she’d never seen. They hiked a mile to the edge of a waterlogged meadow where fresh grass sprouted through mud, and there he laid the blanket under ferns as large as umbrellas.”

461. “But in fact, the restaurant, with all its glitter, wasn’t nearly as grand as her favorite picnic. When she was fifteen, Tate had boated to her shack one dawn, and, after he’d wrapped a blanket around her shoulders, they cruised inland through a maze of waterways to a forest she’d never seen. They hiked a mile to the edge of a waterlogged meadow where fresh grass sprouted through mud, and there he laid the blanket under ferns as large as umbrellas.”

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Delia Owens Quote: “Her pockets yielded only ordinary feathers, shells, and seedpods, so she hurried back to the shack and stood in front of her feather-wall, window-shopping. The most graceful were the tail feathers from a tundra swan.”

462. “Her pockets yielded only ordinary feathers, shells, and seedpods, so she hurried back to the shack and stood in front of her feather-wall, window-shopping. The most graceful were the tail feathers from a tundra swan.”

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Delia Owens Quote: “Sleep avoided her, slinking around the edges, then darting away. Her mind would plunge along deep walls of sudden slumber – an instant of bliss.”

463. “Sleep avoided her, slinking around the edges, then darting away. Her mind would plunge along deep walls of sudden slumber – an instant of bliss.”

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Delia Owens Quote: “He’d convinced Maria that living in a cabin his father had built as a fishing retreat on the coast of North Carolina would be a new start.”

464. “He’d convinced Maria that living in a cabin his father had built as a fishing retreat on the coast of North Carolina would be a new start.”

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Delia Owens Quote: “There’s a mama blue jay lifting from a branch; I’d fly too, if I had a chance.”

465. “There’s a mama blue jay lifting from a branch; I’d fly too, if I had a chance.”

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Delia Owens Quote: “Months passed, winter easing gently into place, as southern winters do.”

466. “Months passed, winter easing gently into place, as southern winters do.”

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Delia Owens Quote: “The owner, an old black man, sprang up from his chair to help them – the reason everybody called him Jumpin’.”

467. “The owner, an old black man, sprang up from his chair to help them – the reason everybody called him Jumpin’.”

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Delia Owens Quote: “Her most poignant memories were unknown dates of family members disappearing down the lane.”

468. “Her most poignant memories were unknown dates of family members disappearing down the lane.”

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

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

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Delia Owens Quote: “His eyes were the same as they had been. Faces change with life’s toll, but eyes remain a window to what was, and she could see him there.”

470. “His eyes were the same as they had been. Faces change with life’s toll, but eyes remain a window to what was, and she could see him there.”

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Delia Owens Quote: “Unworthy boys make a lot of noise,” Ma had said.”

471. “Unworthy boys make a lot of noise,” Ma had said.”

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Delia Owens Quote: “But the process of being killed by another’s hand, planned out and set to schedule, was so unthinkable it stopped her breath.”

472. “But the process of being killed by another’s hand, planned out and set to schedule, was so unthinkable it stopped her breath.”

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Delia Owens Quote: “Each hour warmed until noon, blistered after midday, throbbed past sunset. Later, the moon threw hope across the water, but that died, too.”

473. “Each hour warmed until noon, blistered after midday, throbbed past sunset. Later, the moon threw hope across the water, but that died, too.”

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Delia Owens Quote: “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.”

474. “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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Delia Owens Quote: “Months turned into a year.”

475. “Months turned into a year.”

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Delia Owens Quote: “But just as her collection grew, so did her loneliness.”

476. “But just as her collection grew, so did her loneliness.”

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