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Delia Owens Quote: “She held it against her heart. Where else would one need a compass more than in this place?”

401. “She held it against her heart. Where else would one need a compass more than in this place?”

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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.”

402. “The mussel money turned out to be more reliable than the Monday money ever had, and she usually managed to beat out other pickers.”

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Delia Owens Quote: “Downstream a herd of five female deer ignored her and wandered along the water’s edge nibbling leaves. 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. p272.”

403. “Downstream a herd of five female deer ignored her and wandered along the water’s edge nibbling leaves. 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. p272.”

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Delia Owens Quote: “Listless, she wondered what she had done to send everyone away.”

404. “Listless, she wondered what she had done to send everyone away.”

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Delia Owens Quote: “Once again Tate was nudging her to care for herself, not just offering to care for her. It seemed that all her life, he had been there. Then gone.”

405. “Once again Tate was nudging her to care for herself, not just offering to care for her. It seemed that all her life, he had been there. Then gone.”

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Delia Owens Quote: “Maria begged him to stop drinking, to show enthusiasm for his job so that her father would promote him. But the babies started coming and the drinking never stopped.”

406. “Maria begged him to stop drinking, to show enthusiasm for his job so that her father would promote him. But the babies started coming and the drinking never stopped.”

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Delia Owens Quote: “Maybe Ma was never coming home. Maybe some dreams should just fade away.”

407. “Maybe Ma was never coming home. Maybe some dreams should just fade away.”

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Delia Owens Quote: “At the bottom of the carton was a note.”

408. “At the bottom of the carton was a note.”

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Delia Owens Quote: “Nodding at everyone, there not being one person they didn’t know, they sat at a corner table. Both ordered the special: chicken-fried steak, mash and gravy, turnips, and coleslaw. Biscuits. Pecan pie with ice cream. At the next table, a family of four joined hands and lowered their heads as the father said a blessing out loud. At “Amen” they kissed the air, squeezed hands, and passed the cornbread.”

409. “Nodding at everyone, there not being one person they didn’t know, they sat at a corner table. Both ordered the special: chicken-fried steak, mash and gravy, turnips, and coleslaw. Biscuits. Pecan pie with ice cream. At the next table, a family of four joined hands and lowered their heads as the father said a blessing out loud. At “Amen” they kissed the air, squeezed hands, and passed the cornbread.”

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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.”

410. “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.”

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Delia Owens Quote: “I can live with that.” Each morning they rose at dawn and, while Tate percolated coffee, Kya fried corn fritters in Ma’s old iron skillet – blackened and dented – or stirred grits and eggs as sunrise eased over the lagoon. The heron posing one-legged in the mist. They cruised estuaries, waded waterways, and slipped through narrow streams, collecting feathers and amoebas. In the evenings, they drifted in her old boat until sunset, then swam naked in moonlight or loved in beds of cool ferns.”

411. “I can live with that.” Each morning they rose at dawn and, while Tate percolated coffee, Kya fried corn fritters in Ma’s old iron skillet – blackened and dented – or stirred grits and eggs as sunrise eased over the lagoon. The heron posing one-legged in the mist. They cruised estuaries, waded waterways, and slipped through narrow streams, collecting feathers and amoebas. In the evenings, they drifted in her old boat until sunset, then swam naked in moonlight or loved in beds of cool ferns.”

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Delia Owens Quote: “He was a page of time, a clipping pasted in a scrapbook because it was she had.”

412. “He was a page of time, a clipping pasted in a scrapbook because it was she had.”

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Delia Owens Quote: “But this was too abrupt – picnic, then mate the.”

413. “But this was too abrupt – picnic, then mate the.”

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Delia Owens Quote: “Now, Miss Kya, this ain’t nothin’ to be ‘shamed of. It ain’t no curse, like folks say; this here’s the startin’ of all life, and only a woman can do it.”

414. “Now, Miss Kya, this ain’t nothin’ to be ‘shamed of. It ain’t no curse, like folks say; this here’s the startin’ of all life, and only a woman can do it.”

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Delia Owens Quote: “The calmness of the boy. She’d never known anybody to speak or move so steady. So sure and easy. 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.”

415. “The calmness of the boy. She’d never known anybody to speak or move so steady. So sure and easy. 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: “The royalty checks would come in every six months, they said, and might be several thousand dollars each.”

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

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

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Delia Owens Quote: “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.”

418. “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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Delia Owens Quote: “Had he not been so obsessed with his own heart, perhaps he would have noticed his father’s was failing.”

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

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

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

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Delia Owens Quote: “Then swore louder and meaner than the wind.”

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

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Delia Owens Quote: “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.”

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

423. “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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Delia Owens Quote: “But when the Depression deepened, the bank auctioned the land out from under the Clarks’ feet, and his father took Jake from school.”

424. “But when the Depression deepened, the bank auctioned the land out from under the Clarks’ feet, and his father took Jake from school.”

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Delia Owens Quote: “Back home, thinking she knew how to fix grits, she threw them into boiling water like Ma had done, but they lumped up all together in one big ball that burned on the bottom and stayed raw in the middle. So rubbery she could only eat a few bites, so she searched the garden again and found a few more turnip greens between the goldenrod. Then boiled them up and ate them all, slurping down the pot likker.”

425. “Back home, thinking she knew how to fix grits, she threw them into boiling water like Ma had done, but they lumped up all together in one big ball that burned on the bottom and stayed raw in the middle. So rubbery she could only eat a few bites, so she searched the garden again and found a few more turnip greens between the goldenrod. Then boiled them up and ate them all, slurping down the pot likker.”

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Delia Owens Quote: “WEEK LATER, Kya heard Tate’s boat whirring.”

426. “WEEK LATER, Kya heard Tate’s boat whirring.”

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Delia Owens Quote: “In the mountains, she noticed, the time of sunset depended on where you stood on the hill.”

427. “In the mountains, she noticed, the time of sunset depended on where you stood on the hill.”

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Delia Owens Quote: “But he had noticed her. Had held her eyes. Her breath froze as a heat flowed through her. She tracked them, mostly him, down to the shore. Her mind looking one way, her desire the other. Her body watched Chase Andrews, not her heart.”

428. “But he had noticed her. Had held her eyes. Her breath froze as a heat flowed through her. She tracked them, mostly him, down to the shore. Her mind looking one way, her desire the other. Her body watched Chase Andrews, not her heart.”

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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.”

429. “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.”

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Delia Owens Quote: “A hollowness that urgently needed filling pulsed through her.”

430. “A hollowness that urgently needed filling pulsed through her.”

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

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

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Delia Owens Quote: “If anyone would understand loneliness, the moon would.”

432. “If anyone would understand loneliness, the moon would.”

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Delia Owens Quote: “But knowing that these tendencies are in our biological blueprints might help one forgive even a failed mother.”

433. “But knowing that these tendencies are in our biological blueprints might help one forgive even a failed mother.”

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Delia Owens Quote: “Much older than she, eleven, maybe twelve.”

434. “Much older than she, eleven, maybe twelve.”

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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.”

435. “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: “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.”

436. “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: “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.”

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

438. “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.”

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

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

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

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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.”

441. “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.”

442. “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.”

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

444. “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.”

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

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

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Delia Owens Quote: “She knew it wasn’t Chase she mourned, but a life defined by rejections. As the sky and clouds struggled overhead, she said out loud, “I have to do life alone. But I knew this. I’ve known a long time that people don’t stay.”

447. “She knew it wasn’t Chase she mourned, but a life defined by rejections. As the sky and clouds struggled overhead, she said out loud, “I have to do life alone. But I knew this. I’ve known a long time that people don’t stay.”

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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.”

448. “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.”

449. “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.”

450. “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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