THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES BOOK QUOTES

“I was always happiest when I was right in the middle of the beehives, smelling the beeswax and walking over the cappings that fell to the ground like petals.”

“The bees came the summer of 1964, the summer I turned fourteen and my life went spinning off into a whole new orbit.”

“It’s the little things citizens do. That’s what will make the difference.”

“There’s a bigger picture out there for all of us, we just have to open our eyes and see it.”

“Our lives, Timothy, don’t have to cease just because our bodies do.”

“I’d studied the backs of cereal boxes and wondered how I’d ever know which one to choose. Now anyone who really wanted Honey Nut Cheerios could count on me.”

“The world moves at such a rapid rate that waiting a decade to do something could mean the chance would not be available by the time we’re ready to act.”

“Sometimes you have to get really close to see things clearly.”

“You can’t stop the pain; as long as people have children, still, they’ll have tears to shed.”

“Lily, you know more than any of us. You know secrets we can’t even imagine. We’re just waiting for you to share them.”

“Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.”

“I’d rather love somebody I can’t have than not love anybody at all.”

“I thought about all the other mothers that same day who had given birth. I thought about them going home with their babies and their lives continuing on as if nothing had happened. I knew if I went back to T. Ray, it would be like that for me, too, like nothing had happened.”

“What heart hasn’t conceivably had a hammer laid on it at some point in a lifetime?”

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“You have to find a mother inside yourself. We all do. Even if we already have a mother, we still have to find this part of ourselves inside.”

“In the past few days I had seen a broken man lose all the light in his eyes, and a broken woman find her own light.”

“Our one human task is to find the mystery of ourselves in the journey of others.”

“Love and attention are the greatest healers when you’re a child.”

“Most people don’t have any idea about all the complicated life going on inside a hive. Bees have a secret life we don’t know anything about.”

“You can’t sue bees for damages arising from your subconscious rumination.”

“The world is full of miracles. You just have to be willing to open your eyes and see them.”

“Some things don’t matter that much, Lily. Like the color of a house. How big TV you have. Or whether your parents are good-looking or not. That doesn’t matter so much. What matters most is inside us. What’s in our hearts.”

“I wasn’t sure what stronger was, but I knew that what I felt for her was lighter than an empty suitcase.”

“Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there’s a tomorrow. Maybe for you there’s one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around in it, let it slide like coins through you fingers. So much time you can waste it. But for some of us there’s only today. And the truth is, you never really know.”

“People who think dying is the worst thing don’t know a thing about life.”

“The human spirit is more powerful and resilient than we give it credit for.”

“The truth is, you can’t tell a heart when and how it should have to stop beating.”