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Scupper went on. "Don't go thinking poetry's just for sissies. There's mushy love poems, for sure, but there's also funny ones, lots about nature, war even. Whole point of it— they make ya feel some-thing." 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.
— Mar 23, 2025 08:38AM
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“Hours later, out on the flatlands of the Piedmont, she saw the Appalachians sketched in gentle blue lines along the horizon. As they neared, peaks rose around them and forested mountains flowed softy into the distance as far as Kya could see.”
I started reading this book while on a road trip through the Appalachians and this is exactly what I saw.
— Mar 27, 2025 08:58AM
I started reading this book while on a road trip through the Appalachians and this is exactly what I saw.
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"Well, we better hide way out there where the crawdads sing. I pity any foster parents who take you on." Tate's whole face smiled.
— Mar 23, 2025 08:07PM
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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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"You can read, Kya. There will never be a time again when you can't read."
"It ain't just that." She spoke almost in a whisper. "I wadn't aware that words could hold so much. I didn't know a sentence could be so full."
He smiled. "That's a very good sentence. Not all words hold that much."
— Mar 23, 2025 02:39PM
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"You can read, Kya. There will never be a time again when you can't read."
"It ain't just that." She spoke almost in a whisper. "I wadn't aware that words could hold so much. I didn't know a sentence could be so full."
He smiled. "That's a very good sentence. Not all words hold that much."
