Delia Owens

Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“Autumn leaves don’t fall; they fly. They take their time and wander on this, their only chance to soar. Reflecting sunlight, they swirled and sailed and fluttered on the wind drafts.”

Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

„Niektórych rzeczy pewnie nie da się wytłumaczyć, można tylko przebaczyć lub nie.”

~ Delia Owens „Gdzie śpiewają raki”

His dad had told him many times that the definition of a real man is one who cried with shame, reads poetry with his heart, feels opera in his soul, and does what’s necessary to defend a woman.

-Where The Crawdads Sing

I'm reading the book 'Where The Crawdads Sing' after much persuasion from people around. And well it's a great book so far into this and first it's helped me get out of the reader's block. But onto the book—

It has such a enticing start- nothing more appealing than murder to get a reader hooked on your book 🤌✨ but other than that it's sad over all: how Ma leaves Kya in her 'fake alligator heels' is just gut wrenching and the six year old innocent girl hoping that she would come back for how can a mother abandon her offspring? And how that's not the end of sadness and loneliness in her life- her siblings leave her and I don't feel much for the elder ones with whom she had no connect but Jodie who told her that 'she would understand why he did this when she is older' and I fail to understand why leaving a child with an abusive parent is anything understandable.

What is more depressing that Kya continues to hope that Ma will come back and she turns 7 and there is no one to wish her. She doing makeshift with her father to just have sort of connection with human beings is so unimaginable. Her dad being so cruel to her that he has no regards for her well being speaks volumes. Only for him to show some speck of humanity by taking her fishing, to a diner and just smiling. It's going to make me cry- the short glimpses of childhood are so heartbreaking to read. Only for me to feel sadder when he doesn't return- perhaps lost to death. Now Kya is forced to grow up and look past her creative needs to focus on how to bring food on the table is disturbing

"Ta phải rời xa thôi

Để người đi

Tình yêu vẫn thường

Là lời đáp cho việc ở lại

Hiếm khi là lý do

Để ra đi..."

(Amanda Hamilton)

Życie odmienia nasze twarze, ale oczy pozostają oknem tego, co było.

Delia Owens, Gdzie śpiewają raki

There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot.

Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

To je ono što nitko ne razumije o meni. Nikad nisam mrzila ljude. Oni su mrzili mene. Oni su ismijavali mene. Oni su napustili mene. Oni su maltretirali mene. Oni su napadali mene. Da, istina je: naučila sam živjeti bez njih.

Where the Crawdads Sing (2022) dir. Olivia Newman

"I wasn't aware that words could hold so much. I didn't know a sentence could be so full."

― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“A simple hope of being with someone, of actually being wanted, of being touched, had drawn her in. But these hurried groping hands were only a taking, not a sharing or giving.”

Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

„Dlaczego zranieni, ci którzy wciąż krwawią, mają wybaczać?”

~ Delia Owens „Gdzie śpiewają raki”

“I hafta go, Kya. Can’t live here no longer.”

She almost turned to him, but didn’t. Wanted to beg him not to leave her alone with Pa, but the words jammed up.

“When you’re old enough you’ll understand,” he said. Kya wanted to holler out that she may be young, but she wasn’t stupid. She knew Pa was the reason they all left; what she wondered was why no one took her with them.

-Where The Crawdads Sing