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Where the Crawdads Sing

Delia Owens

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Just like their whiskey, the marsh dwellers bootlegged their own laws—not like those burned onto stone tablets or inscribed on documents, but deeper ones, stamped in their genes. Ancient and natural, like those hatched from hawks and doves. When cornered, desperate, or isolated, man reverts to those instincts that aim straight at survival. Quick and just. They will always be the trump cards because they are passed on more frequently from one generation to the next than the gentler genes. It is not a morality, but simple math. Among themselves, doves fight as often as hawks.

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Jackson mostly ignored crimes committed in the swamp. Why interrupt rats killing rats?

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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.

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Slowly, she unraveled each word of the sentence: “‘There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot.’”

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Once sure and cocky, handsome and fit, he could no longer wear the man he had become and he’d take a swig from his poke. Blending in with the fighting, drinking, cussing renegades of the marsh was the easiest thing Jake ever did.

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A wild thing ashamed of her own freakish ways.

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She’d given love a chance; now she wanted simply to fill the empty spaces. Ease the loneliness while walling off her heart.

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She laughed for his sake, something she’d never done. Giving away another piece of herself just to have someone else.

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She didn’t row away, but watched him awhile, thinking that every girl probably remembers her first love. She let out a long breath, then rowed back the way she came.

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Nature is audacious enough to ensure that the males who send out dishonest signals or go from one female to the next almost always end up alone.

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Objects, whether planets or apples, fall or orbit, not because of a gravitational energy, but because they plummet into the silky folds of spacetime—like into the ripples on a pond—created by those of higher mass.

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Like everything else in the universe, we tumble toward those of higher mass.

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It hadn’t been a coincidence that Chase slyly mentioned marriage as bait, immediately bedded her, then dropped her for someone else. She knew from her studies that males go from one female to the next, so why had she fallen for this man?

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She didn’t mention to Jodie that she still kept the letter’s ashes in a little jar.

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“I’ve read a lot about this since. In nature—out yonder where the crawdads sing—these ruthless-seeming behaviors actually increase the mother’s number of young over her lifetime, and thus her genes for abandoning offspring in times of stress are passed on to the next generation.

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“Most men go from one female to the next. The unworthy ones strut about, pulling you in with falsehoods. Which is probably why Ma fell for a man like Pa.

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Let’s face it, a 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.

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