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“I must let go now. Let you go. Love is too often the answer for staying. Too seldom the reason for going. I drop the line and watch you drift away. All along you thought the fiery current of your lover's breast pulled you to the deep. But it was my heart-tide releasing you to float adrift with seaweed.”

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Book:Where the Crawdads Sing

Source: Where the Crawdads Sing

“Fading moon, follow my footsteps through light unbroken by land shadows, and share my senses that feel the cool shoulders of silence. Only you know how one side of a moment is stretched by loneliness for miles to the other edge, and how much sky is in one breath when time slides backward from the sand.”

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Book:Where the Crawdads Sing

Source: Where the Crawdads Sing

“Child to child. Eye to eye. We grew as one, sharing souls. Wing by wing, leaf by leaf you left this world, you died before the child. My friend, the Wild.”

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Book:Where the Crawdads Sing

Source: Where the Crawdads Sing

“Sunsets are never simple. Twilight is refracted and reflected but never true. Eventide is a disguise covering tracks, covering lies. We don't care that dusk deceives. We see brilliant colors, and never learn the sun has dropped beneath the earth by the time we see the burn. Sunsets are in disguise, covering truths, covering lies.”

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Book:Where the Crawdads Sing

Source: Where the Crawdads Sing

“Broken Gull of Brandon Beach Winged soul, you danced the skies, and startled dawn with shrilling cries. You followed sails and braved the sea, then caught the wind back to me. You broke your wing; it dragged the land and etched your mark upon the sand. When feathers break, you cannot fly, but who decides the time to die? You disappeared, I know not where. But your wings-marks still linger there. A broken heart cannot fly, But who decides the time to die?”

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Book:Where the Crawdads Sing

Source: Where the Crawdads Sing

“The sweeping up the heart, and putting love away. We shall not want to use again until eternity.”

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Book:Where the Crawdads Sing

Source: Where the Crawdads Sing

“You came again, blinding my eyes like the shimmer of sun upon the sea. Just as I feel free the moon casts your face upon the sill. Each time I forget you, your eyes haunt my heart and it falls still. And so farewell until the next time you come, until at last I do not see you.”

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Book:Where the Crawdads Sing

Source: Where the Crawdads Sing

“The Firefly Luring him was as easy as flashing valentines. But like a lady firefly they hid a secret call to die. A final touch, unfinished; the last step, a trap. Down, down he falls, his eyes still holding mine until they see another world. I saw them change. First a question, then an answer, finally an end. And love itself passing to whatever it was before it began.”

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Book:Where the Crawdads Sing

Source: Where the Crawdads Sing

“In his room, scanning through the poetry book for one to read in class, Tate found a poem by Thomas Moore: ... she's gone to the Lake of the Dismal Swamp, Where, all night long, by a fire-fly lamp, She paddles her white canoe. And her fire-fly lamp I soon shall see, And her paddle I soon shall hear; Long and loving our life shall be, And I'll hide the maid in a cypress tree, When the footstep of death is near. The words made him think of Kya, Jodie's little sister. She'd seemed so small and alone in the marsh's big sweep. He imagined his own sister lost out there. His dad was right- poems made you feel something.”

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Book:Where the Crawdads Sing

Source: Where the Crawdads Sing

“Love is too often The answer for staying. Too seldom the reason For going.”

Love Poem

Book:Where the Crawdads Sing

Source: Where the Crawdads Sing

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