72 Quotes by Delia Owens

Trebuie să dau drumul acum. Să-ți dau drumul. Dragostea e prea adesea Răspunsul pentru a rămâne. Și prea arareori motivul Plecării.

Most of what she knew, she'd learned from the wild. Nature had nurtured, tutored, and protected her when no one else would.

But he had noticed her. Had held her eyes. Her breath froze as a heat flowed through her. She tracked them, mostly him, down to the shore. Her mind looking one way, her desire the other. Her body watched Chase Andrews, not her heart.

Uncertainty lingered, but the more she thought about it, the less likely it seemed the boy meant harm. It didn't fit that anyone who liked birds would be mean.

I woke up on the right side of dirt.

You can’t get hurt when you love someone from the other side of an estuary.

Drömmar om flykt – också genom döden – tar sig alltid upp mot ljuset. Fridens blänkande pris dinglar precis utom räckhåll, hennes kropp skulle äntligen sjunka till botten och lägga sig till ro i den dunkla tystnaden. I säkerhet. Vem bestämmer när det är dags att dö?

People forget about creatures that live in shells.

Her pockets yielded only ordinary feathers, shells, and seedpods, so she hurried back to the shack and stood in front of her feather-wall, window-shopping. The most graceful were the tail feathers from a tundra swan.