Quotations (12)

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“Please don’t talk to me about isolation. No one has to tell me how it changes a person. I have lived it. I am isolation.
"Faces change with life’s toll, but eyes remain a window to what was...”
“If anyone would understand loneliness, the moon would.”
“Why should the injured, the still bleeding, bear the onus of forgiveness?”
"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."
Tate’s father told him many times, “The definition of a real man is one who cries with shame, reads poetry with his heart, feels opera in his soul and does what’s necessary to defend a woman.” Mabel to Kya:”Ya need some girlfriends hon,…
“She knew the years of isolation had altered her behavior until she was different from others, but it wasn't her fault she'd been alone. Most of what she knew, she'd learned from the wild. Nature had nurtured, tutored, and protected her…
“I wasn't aware that words could hold so much. I didn't know a sentence could be so full.”
“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.…
A lesser male needs to shout to be noticed.
The sun, warm as a blanket, wrapped Kya's shoulders, coaxing her deeper into the marsh. Sometimes she heard night-sounds she didn't know or jumped from lightning too close, but whenever she stumbled, it was the land that caught her. Until…
The marsh did not confine them but defined them and, like any sacred ground, kept their secrets deep.