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Where The Crawdads Sing [Book]

    Where The Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens [Book]
    By: Delia Owens

    Book Overview: For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. When two young men from town become intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new life–until the unthinkable happens. Where the Crawdads Sing is at once an exquisite ode to the natural world, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story, and a surprising tale of possible murder. Owens reminds us that we are forever shaped by the children we once were, and that we are all subject to the beautiful and violent secrets that nature keeps.

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      “One person, on doing well by others, immediately accounts the expected favor in return. Another is not so quick, but still considers the person a debtor and knows the favor. A third kind of person acts as if no conscious of the deed, rather like a vine producing a cluster of grapes without making further demands, like a horse after its race, or a dog after its walk, or a bee after making its honey. Such a person, having done a good deed, won’t go shouting from rooftops but simply moves on to the next deed just like the vine produces another bunch of grapes in the right season.”

      Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, via The Daily Stoic (Page 210)

        “In your actions, don’t procrastinate. In your conversations, don’t confuse. In your thoughts, don’t wander. In your soul, don’t be passive or aggressive. In your life, don’t be all about business.”

        Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, via The Daily Stoic (Page 209)

          “Whatever humble art you practice: Are you sure you’re making time for it? Are you loving what you do enough to make the time? Can you trust that if you put in the effort, the rest will take care of itself? Because it will. Love the craft, be the craftsman.”

          Ryan Holiday, The Daily Stoic (Page 207)

          Dustin Poirier Quote on Karma Explained

            Dustin Poirier Quote on Karma Explained

            “Karma’s not a b*tch, she’s a mirror.”

            Dustin Poirier

            When what goes around finally comes back around, what arrives can certainly be painful. Life is painful. And many times, what we send out into the world is pain. Pain that comes from personal experience and pain that’s sent by the people we’ve caused pain to. Maybe not intentionally, but because we’re imperfect, suffering creatures who are doing the best we can with what we’ve been given in life. And many times, what we’ve been given is more pain than we’ve learned how to properly manage.

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              “Our lives are also fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like ‘excuse me,’ and other such simple courtesies. Our spirits are also richly fed on compliments and praise, nourished by consideration as well as whole wheat bread. Rudeness, the absence of the sacrament of consideration, is but another mark that our time-is-money society is lacking in spirituality, if not also in its enjoyment of life.”

              Ed Hays, via Sunbeams (Page 119)

                “Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man’s hunger.”

                Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet, via Sunbeams (Page 119)

                  “It is a good thing, it is even salutary, for a child to have periods of boredom, for him to learn to know the dialectics of exaggerated play and causeless, pure boredom.”

                  Gaston Bachelard, via Sunbeams (Page 117)

                    “For I believe a good king is from the outset and by necessity a philosopher, and the philosopher is from the outset a kingly person.”

                    Musonius Rufus, via The Daily Stoic (Page 206)

                      “On those mornings you struggle with getting up, keep this thought in mind—I am awakening to the work of a human being. Why then am I annoyed that I am going to do what I’m made for, the very things for which I was put into this world? Or was I made for this, to snuggle under the covers and keep warm? It’s so pleasurable. Were you then made for pleasure? In short, to be coddled or to exert yourself?”

                      Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, via The Daily Stoic (Page 203)