Meredith’s Reviews > Where the Crawdads Sing > Status Update

"[Kya] was bonded to her planet and its life in a way few people are. Rooted solid in this earth. Born of its mother."

Kya: For years I longed to be with people. I really believed that someone would stay with me, that I would actually have friends and a family. Be part of a group. But no one stayed. Not you or one member of my family.

“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."

“[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.