72 Quotes by Delia Owens

She knew it wasn't Chase she mourned, but a life defined by rejections. As the sky and clouds struggled overhead, she said out loud, "I have to do life alone. But I knew this. I've known a long time that people don't stay.

For a scavenger, patience is the key to the pantry.

Tate noticed that while her face and body showed early inklings and foothills of womanhood, her mannerisms and turns of phrase were somewhat childlike, in contrast to the village girls whose mannerisms- overdoing their makeup, cussing, and smoking- outranked their foothills.

She feels the pulse of life, he thought, because there are no layers between her and her planet.

There were also drawings of the creatures who live inside - how they eat, how they move, how they mate - because people forget about creatures who live in shells.

Sometimes she heard night-sounds she didn’t know or jumped from lightning too close, but whenever she stumbled, it was the land who caught her. Until at last, at some unclaimed moment, the heart-pain seeped away like water into sand. Still there, but deep. Kya laid her hand upon the breathing, wet earth, and the marsh became her mother.

I've about had it with flying," he grumbled, switching off the plane's systems, "It's ninety-nine percent boring and one percent sheer terror.

Why're you painting grass?" he asked one day in her kitchen."I'm painting their flowers."He laughed. "Grass doesn't have flowers.""Of course they do. See those blossoms. They're tiny, but beautiful. Each grass species has a different flower or inflorescence.

Love is too often The answer for staying. Too seldom the reason For going.