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Delia Owens Quote: “Jodie, the brother closest to Kya, but still seven years older, stepped from the house and stood behind her. He had her same dark eyes and black.”
Delia Owens Quote: “She fished for eight hours straight, then soaked her catch of twenty in saltwater brine through the night. At daybreak she lined them up on the shelves of Pa’s old smokehouse.”
Delia Owens Quote: “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 Quote: “Ma had said women need one another more than they need men.”
Delia Owens Quote: “Just as she had figured out most things, Kya figured out how to become a woman on her own.”
Delia Owens Quote: “Oh, that’s a long boring story.”
Delia Owens Quote: “But I knew this. I’ve known a long time that people don’t stay.”
Delia Owens Quote: “A clutch of women’s the most tender, most tough place on Earth.”
Delia Owens Quote: “It is not a morality, but simple math. Among themselves, doves fight as often as hawks.”
Delia Owens Quote: “Kya didn’t stop or they would bolt, a lesson she’d learned from watching wild turkeys: if you act like a predator, they act like prey. Just ignore them, keep going slowly.”
Delia Owens Quote: “When they hit the shadows, they vanished. Without the sun they were nothing.”
Delia Owens Quote: “A Boat and a Boy 1952.”
Delia Owens Quote: “The unworthy ones strut about, pulling you in with falsehoods. Which is probably why Ma fell for a man like Pa.”
Delia Owens Quote: “Kya touched the words as if they were a message, as though Ma had underlined them specifically so her daughter would read them someday by this dim kerosene flame and understand. It wasn’t much, not a handwritten note tucked in the back of a sock drawer, but it was something. She sensed that the words clinched a powerful meaning, but she couldn’t shake it free. If she ever became a poet, she’d make the message clear.”
Delia Owens Quote: “Thought ya could use that fer yo’ feathers, bird nests, and all that other stuff ya c’lect.” “Oh,” Kya said. “Oh, thank ya.” But he was already out the porch door. She picked up the frayed knapsack, made of canvas tough enough for a lifetime and covered in small pockets and secret compartments. Heavy-duty zips. She stared out the window. He had never given her anything.”
Delia Owens Quote: “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 Quote: “I’m so sorry. I am, but, Kya, it’s not just guys who are unfaithful. I’ve been duped, dropped, run over a few times myself. Let’s face it, a 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. Look at us; you and I have each other now, and just think, if I have kids and you have kids, well, that’s a whole new string of connections. And on it goes. Kya, if you love Tate, take a chance.”
Delia Owens Quote: “Just forget it. No god’s gonna come to this garden.”
Delia Owens Quote: “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 Quote: “Kya knew from reading Albert Einstein’s books that time is no more fixed than the stars. Time speeds and bends around planets and suns, is different in the mountains than in the valleys, and is part of the same fabric as space, which curves and swells as does the sea. Objects, whether planets or apples, fall or orbit, not because of a gravitational energy, but because they plummet into the silky folds of spacetime – like into the ripples on a pond, created by those of higher mass.”
Delia Owens Quote: “He offered up his famous specialty – grilled flounder stuffed with shrimp served on pimento-cheese grits – only a few times a year.”
Delia Owens Quote: “Finally, after a lifetime, she admitted it was the chance of seeing Tate, the hope of rounding a creek bend and watching him through reeds, that had pulled her into the marsh every day of her life since she was seven.”
Delia Owens Quote: “Kya was bonded to her planet and its life in a way few people are. Rooted solid in this earth. Born of this mother.”
Delia Owens Quote: “Being thrown behind bars with no bail made clear how alone she was. The sheriff’s offer of a phone call starkly reminded her: there was no one to call. The only phone number she knew in the world was Jodie’s, and how could she call her brother and say she was in jail accused of murder? After all those years, how could she bother him with her troubles? And maybe shame played a part.”
Delia Owens Quote: “A surplus. Her heart filled up. The same feeling as having a full tank of gas or seeing the sunset under a paint-brushed sky.”
Delia Owens Quote: “Pa was throwing Ma’s paintings, dresses, and books onto the flames.”
Delia Owens Quote: “Yep, heard us coming. She can probably hear a rabbit sleeping.”
Delia Owens Quote: “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 Quote: “Inside the Piggly Wiggly, Kya studied the selection of grits and chose a one-pound bag of coarse ground yellow because a red tag hung from the top – a special of the week. Like Ma taught her.”
Delia Owens Quote: “And even though she couldn’t write, Kya had found a way to label her specimens. Her talent had matured and now she could draw, paint, and sketch anything. Using chalks or watercolors from the Five and Dime, she sketched the birds, insects, or shells on grocery bags and attached them to her samples.”
Delia Owens Quote: “If only she could join in, belong to them. Kya knew it wasn’t so much that the herd would be incomplete without one of its deer, but that each deer would be incomplete without her herd.”
Delia Owens Quote: “Then, the hustle of getting everybody up and fed. Pa not there. He had two settings: silence and shouting. So it was just fine when he slept through, or didn’t come home at all.”
Delia Owens Quote: “Carrying one of the six copies of her new book the publishers had given her, she waited on the old reading-log. In about twenty minutes she heard the sound of Tate’s old boat chugging up the channel and stood. As he eased into view from the undergrowth, they waved and smiled softly. Both guarded. The last time he’d pulled in here, she’d hurled rocks in his face.”
Delia Owens Quote: “We were the victims, not the guilty.” He smiled. “Thank you, Kya.”
Delia Owens Quote: “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 Quote: “The sun, still shy and submissive to winter, peeped in now and then between days of mean wind and bitter rain.”
Delia Owens Quote: “Kya had done the laundry plenty with Ma, so knew how to scrub clothes on the rub board under the yard spigot with bars of lye soap. Pa’s overalls were so heavy wet she couldn’t wring them out with her tiny hands, and couldn’t reach the line to hang them, so draped them sopping over the palmetto fronds at the edge of the woods.”
Delia Owens Quote: “Among themselves, doves fight as often as hawks.”
Delia Owens Quote: “The view a chick gets, she reckoned, when it finally breaks its shell.”
Delia Owens Quote: “Tate said long words were simply little ones strung together – so she wasn’t afraid of them, went straight to learning Pleistocene along with sat.”
Delia Owens Quote: “Ever so carefully he opened the old cigar box, the one where all the collecting began. The box still smelled of sweet tobacco and little girl. Among a few birds’ feathers, insects’ wings, and seeds was the small jar with the ashes from her ma’s letter, and a bottle of Revlon fingernail polish, Barely Pink. The bits and bones of a life. The stones of her stream.”
Delia Owens Quote: “Still, she knew by the way he spoke that Pa had slugged his face. “I hafta go, Kya. Can’t live here no longer.”
Delia Owens Quote: “Jodie, showing maturity far beyond his father’s, deadpanned, “Another one’ll just move in, and I always reckoned it’s better the skunk ya know than the skunk ya don’t know.”
Delia Owens Quote: “Hello, Mister Jake. How ya doin’?” “Well, Ah woke up on the right side of dirt,” Pa answered. Jumpin’ laughed as if he’d never heard the worn-out phrase.”
Delia Owens Quote: “Lui aveva ancora gli stessi occhi; le facce cambiano, con gli eventi della vita, ma gli occhi rimangono una finestra sul passato...”
Delia Owens Quote: “In a time I don’t remember – I already loved you.”
Delia Owens Quote: “Gently she touched his head, then scratched his neck. A loud purr erupted like a current. She closed her eyes at such easy acceptance. A deep pause in a lifetime of longing.”
Delia Owens Quote: “Thought ya could use that fer yo’ feathers, bird nests, and all that other stuff ya c’lect.”
Delia Owens Quote: “The sky in a frumpy sweater of gray clouds.”
Delia Owens Quote: “Kya laid her hand upon the breathing, wet earth, and the marsh became her mother.”
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