Read With Ashley discussion

“Other mornings Ma spoke about adult things Kya didn’t understand, but she figured Ma’s words needed somewhere to go, so she absorbed them through her skin”

~ 1. Ma

"This little piggy stayed home," she said to the waves."

~ 2. Jodie

“…she made his bed, picked up, swept up, and washed the dishes most of the time. Not because she’s been told, but because it was the only way to keep the shack decent for Ma’s return.”

~ 2. Jodie

“You’re a girl,” he said, looking at his plate, chewing backbone.
“Yessir, I’m your girl.”

~ 7. The Fishing Season

“Pa never took her fishing again. Those warm days were just a thrown-in season.”

~ 9. Jumpin'

"... he stared at his decision hiding there in cord grass: Kya or everything else.
“Kya, Kya, I just can’t do this,” he whispered. “I’m sorry.”

~ 22. Same Tide

“She turned away from him. Forcing herself not to feel. She would not be drawn back to someone she couldn’t trust.”

~ 27. Out Hog Mountain Road

“Chase and his friends turned at once to look at her, and in the same instant, he dropped his arm from the girl.”

~ 29. Seaweed

SHAME SHAME SHAME

"... an advance copy of The Sea Shells of the Eastern Seaboard, by Catherine Danielle Clark...”

~ 31. A Book

#Girlboss

“Kya walked out of the courthouse with a full deed in her name for three hundred ten acres of lush lagoons, sparkling marsh, oak forests, and a long private beach on the North Carolina coastline. “Wasteland cateegory. Murky swamp.”

~ 31. A Book

#Girlboss x2

“It was you, Tate,” she said, and then thought, It was always you. ”

~ 31. A Book

“And each time she came to his wharf, she saw her book propped up in the tiny window for all to see. As a father would have shown it.”

~ 31. A Book

<3

"The stranger, tall with dark hair..."

~ 33. The Scar

Jodie

"Faces change with life’s toll, but eyes remain a window to what was...”

~ 33. The Scar

“She didn’t leave us to have a fling; she’d been driven to madness and barely knew she’d left.”

~ 33. The Scar

Good

“His hand was on the girl’s arm.
“I think that’s Tate Walker,” Jodie said. “And you.”
“I think you’re right. It looks like him. Why would Ma paint Tate?”
“He used to come around quite a bit, fish with me. He was always showing you insects and stuff.”

~ 33. The Scar

"Well, by the time we got closer, we seen the woman was standin’ next to the man and was kicking him right in the ...”

~ 40. Cypress Cove

How convenient

"Nothing mattered except supporting his son.”

~ 52. Three Mountains Motel

“We the jury find Miss Catherine Danielle Clark not guilty as charged in the first-degree murder of Mr. Chase Andrews.”

~ 54. Vice Versa

#Girlboss x3

“Even from this distance she read despair in his posture. The sheriff shouted again, and Tate finally reached up and let the deputy pull him into the boat."

~ 55. Grass Flowers

WHATTTT

“... who had come to bury Scupper.”

~ 56. The Night Heron

WHATTTTT

“Kya, I’m so sorry. I have bad news. Jumpin’ died last night in his sleep.”

~ 57. The Firefly

NOOO

“Lawd, he loved ya like his own dawder,” Mabel said.
“I know,” Kya said, “and he was my pa.”

~ 57. The Firefly

Screaming crying

“Amanda Hamilton was Kya. Kya was the poet.”

~ 57. The Firefly

#Girlboss x4