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Delia Owens Quote: “Kya sprinted to the spot she knew would bare the road; surely Ma would wave from there, but she arrived only in time to glimpse the blue case – the color so wrong for the woods – as it disappeared. A heaviness, thick as black-cotton mud, pushed her chest as she returned to the steps to wait.”
Delia Owens Quote: “When all her shelves were empty, she finally motored to Jumpin’s for supplies but didn’t chat with him as usual. Did her business and left him standing, staring after her. Needing people ended in hurt.”
Delia Owens Quote: “They sipped until the sun, as golden as syrupy as the bourbon, slipped into the sea.”
Delia Owens Quote: “Dreams of escape – even through death – always lift toward the light. The dangling, shiny prize of peace just out of grasp until finally her body descends to the bottom and settles in murky quiet. Safe.”
Delia Owens Quote: “After Ma left, over the next few weeks, Kya’s oldest brother and two sisters drifted away too, as if by example. They had endured Pa’s red-faced rages, which started as shouts, then escalated into fist-slugs, or backhanded punches, until one by one, they disappeared.”
Delia Owens Quote: “He showed her more slides. She whispered, “It’s like never having seen the stars, then suddenly seeing them.”
Delia Owens Quote: “Her pocket brought a tail feather from an.”
Delia Owens Quote: “Even Jodie had said she should give Tate another chance. But every time she thought of him or saw him, her heart jumped from the old love to the pain of abandonment. She wished it would settle on one side or the other.”
Delia Owens Quote: “A areia guarda segredos melhor do que a lama.”
Delia Owens Quote: “At the chirp of a chipmunk she whirled around, listened keenly to the caws of crows – a language before words were, when communication was simple and clear.”
Delia Owens Quote: “Kya, it’s gotten cooler, don’t you want a jacket or something?” “No. I’m fine.” “Here, at least take my cap,” and he tossed a red ski cap toward her. She caught it and slung it back to him. He threw it again, farther, and she jogged across the sandbar, leaned low and scooped it up.”
Delia Owens Quote: “Jodie, I’m so sorry you worried about leaving me. Not once did I blame you. We were the victims, not the guilty.”
Delia Owens Quote: “The mussel money turned out to be more reliable than the Monday money ever had, and she usually managed to beat out other pickers.”
Delia Owens Quote: “She would not be drawn back to someone she couldn’t trust. ‘I don’t know how to. I could never believe you again.”
Delia Owens Quote: “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.”
Delia Owens Quote: “Aldo Leopold taught her that floodplains are living extensions of the rivers, which will claim them back any time they choose. Anyone living on a floodplain is just waiting in the river’s wings.”
Delia Owens Quote: “They sat there like that, quietly. Not remembering.”
Delia Owens Quote: “Unfortunately gravity holds no sway on human thought.”
Delia Owens Quote: “Her heart beat wildly. Of all the ragged loves she’d known from wayward family, none had felt like this.”
Delia Owens Quote: “Mrs. Singletary’s hair was cut short, curled tight, and colored purple as an iris in sunlight.”
Delia Owens Quote: “Chase’s blue eyes were playful; he smiled easily.”
Delia Owens Quote: “Autumn was coming; the evergreens might not have noticed, but the sycamores did.”
Delia Owens Quote: “Pennies and Grits 1956.”
Delia Owens Quote: “A dark clearing – one of her favorite places – spread cavernlike under five oaks so dense only hazy streams of sunlight filtered through the canopy, striking lush patches of trillium and white violets.”
Delia Owens Quote: “But knowing that these tendencies are in our biological blueprints might help one forgive even a failed mother.”
Delia Owens Quote: “Much older than she, eleven, maybe twelve.”
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.”
Delia Owens Quote: “Red Fibers 1969.”

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Delia Owens Quote: “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.”
Delia Owens Quote: “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.”
Delia Owens Quote: “In a whisper, she asked, “Who’s who?”
Delia Owens Quote: “They had abandoned her to survive and defend herself. So here she was, by herself.”
Delia Owens Quote: “Why would Chase open this one in the.”
Delia Owens Quote: “I’ve about had it with flying,” he grumbled, switching off the plane’s systems, “It’s ninety-nine percent boring and one percent sheer terror.”
Delia Owens Quote: “Not knowing how to count the exact amount, she laid down the whole dollar.”
Delia Owens Quote: “Oh, by the way,” Chase said. “I have to drive over to Asheville in a few days to buy goods for the.”
Delia Owens Quote: “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.”
Delia Owens Quote: “A hollowness that urgently needed filling pulsed through her.”
Delia Owens Quote: “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.”
Delia Owens Quote: “Imagination grows in the lonliest of soils.”
Delia Owens Quote: “She needed this boat and that boy.”
Delia Owens Quote: “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.”
Delia Owens Quote: “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.”
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.”
Delia Owens Quote: “One night two years later, without saying good-bye, Jake left before dawn, taking with him as many fine clothes and family treasures – including his great-grandfather’s gold pocket watch and his grandmother’s diamond ring – as he could carry. He hitchhiked to New Orleans and found Maria.”
Delia Owens Quote: “She got by with her supplies from Jumpin’s and had more mussels than she could eat. They weren’t that bad tossed into the grits, mashed up beyond recognition. They didn’t have eyes to look at her like the fish did.”
Delia Owens Quote: “And yet here was an extra spark plug, to be set aside until needed. A surplus. Her heart filled up.”
Delia Owens Quote: “Happy birthday, Kya,” he said. “You’re fifteen.”
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.”
Delia Owens Quote: “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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