Where the Crawdads Sing
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Read between January 21 - January 24, 2022
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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.
Tony
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“I wadn’t aware that words could hold so much. I didn’t know a sentence could be so full.”
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A power of emotions as painful as pleasurable.
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but a life defined by rejections.
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If anyone understood loneliness, the moon would.
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Some parts of us will always be what we were, what we had to be to survive—way back yonder.
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Dreams of escape—even through death—always lift toward the light.