Delia Owens

I wasn't aware that words could hold so much. I didn't know a sentence could be so full.

His dad had told him many times that the definition of a real man is one who cries without shame, reads poetry with his heart, feels opera in his soul, and does what’s necessary to defend a woman.

Autumn leaves don't fall, they fly. They take their time and wander on this their only chance to soar.

Unworthy boys make a lot of noise.

Why should the injured, the still bleeding, bear the onus of forgiveness?

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.

There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot.

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.