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“For the first time in her life, her heart felt full.”

Kya: What d'ya mean, where the crawdads sing?
Tate: Just means far in the bush where critters are wild, still behaving like critters.
disc 4, chapter 17

“But the babies started coming, and the drinking never stopped.”

"Crows can't keep secrets any better than mud; once they see something curious in the forest they have to tell everybody. Those who listen are rewarded: either warned of predators or alerted to food."

Elk: The world is big and cold, little child, and you are so small. The world is full of evil and wickedness, and it will hurt you.
Princess Cottongrass: I am young and warm. I have warmth enough for everyone. I am small and good and want to share the good I have.
Elk: Princess, the forest is dark, and the roads are dangerous.

“[Tate's] 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.”

Kya's Ma: If you look tempting, men turn to predators.

“Among themselves, doves fight as often as hawks.”

Sam: I wonder what sort of tale we’ve fallen into.
Frodo: I wonder, but I don’t know. And that’s the way of a real tale. Take any one that you’re fond of. You may know, or guess, what kind of tale it is, happy-ending or sad-ending, but the people in it don’t know. And you don’t want them to.

Tolkien: What [Frodo] had to do, he had to do, if he could, and that whether Faramir or Aragorn or Elrond or Galadriel or Gandalf or anyone else ever knew about it was besides the purpose.

Gregory’s mother to Hubert’s mother: Well, Hubert is very strong and healthy, but Gregory is intelligent.
Me: Burn!