“Kya, you can’t run from every whipstitch. Sometimes you have to discuss things. Face things.” StrengthFace Your FearsWhere The Crawdads SingDelia OwensKya Clark Book:Where the Crawdads Sing Source: Where the Crawdads Sing
“Sometimes she heard night-sounds she didn’t know or jumped from lightning too close, but whenever she stumbled, it was the land who caught her. Until at last, at some unclaimed moment, the heart-pain seeped away like water into sand. Still there, but deep. Kya laid her hand upon the breathing, wet earth, and the marsh became her mother.” SadnessLonelinessMothersSwampMarshWhere The Crawdads SingDelia OwensKya Clark Book:Where the Crawdads Sing Source: Where the Crawdads Sing