Susan Cormier > Quotes

“Anger is unscreamed grief. It is a choked-back cry of frustration”
― Susan Cormier, Dead Bees Still Sting: Tales of Life at the Edge of Nature

“Nope Bug: any spider or insect that is so large and intimidating or distasteful in appearance that instead of catching and eating it”
― Susan Cormier, Dead Bees Still Sting: Tales of Life at the Edge of Nature

“Courage is not facing something other people are afraid of; courage is facing something you yourself are afraid of.”
― Susan Cormier, Dead Bees Still Sting: Tales of Life at the Edge of Nature

“the future rushes toward us like a heat wave”
― Susan Cormier, Dead Bees Still Sting: Tales of Life at the Edge of Nature

“We Bury Things to get rid of them”
― Susan Cormier, Dead Bees Still Sting: Tales of Life at the Edge of Nature

“There Are Two kinds of people who own bees: bee-keepers and bee-havers. Beehavers have bees. They care deeply about their bees. But they haven’t researched and learned about how to keep”
― Susan Cormier, Dead Bees Still Sting: Tales of Life at the Edge of Nature

“Ripe honey—unlike sugar water or fruit juice—will not ferment or rot”
― Susan Cormier, Dead Bees Still Sting: Tales of Life at the Edge of Nature

“Kindness is sometimes a firm hand and a heavy heart. When you adopt an animal”
― Susan Cormier, Dead Bees Still Sting: Tales of Life at the Edge of Nature

“Surviving becomes thriving when transplanted to appropriate soil.”
― Susan Cormier, Dead Bees Still Sting: Tales of Life at the Edge of Nature

“You can only stand so tall when you have to stoop and curve to fit within an ever-crowding environment”
― Susan Cormier, Dead Bees Still Sting: Tales of Life at the Edge of Nature

“The past does not change. The roots of a tree remain stable even when the trunk is broken. Although everything else may alter and shift”
― Susan Cormier, Dead Bees Still Sting: Tales of Life at the Edge of Nature

“Beekeepers know that as keepers of bees”
― Susan Cormier, Dead Bees Still Sting: Tales of Life at the Edge of Nature

“Healing Is Not a reversal of damage”
― Susan Cormier, Dead Bees Still Sting: Tales of Life at the Edge of Nature

“We agree to take no action for a few days”
― Susan Cormier, Dead Bees Still Sting: Tales of Life at the Edge of Nature

“Some people confuse the emotional sense of tenderness or fondness with love. Love is a verb. Actions take place in the tangible”
― Susan Cormier, Dead Bees Still Sting: Tales of Life at the Edge of Nature

“Unravelation: during or shortly after a tragic or traumatic event or upheaval that makes one feel as though one’s world were falling apart”
― Susan Cormier, Dead Bees Still Sting: Tales of Life at the Edge of Nature

“How are your bees?” friends ask”
― Susan Cormier, Dead Bees Still Sting: Tales of Life at the Edge of Nature

“Domestic animals left to go “live in the wild” do not enjoy happy”
― Susan Cormier, Dead Bees Still Sting: Tales of Life at the Edge of Nature

“Do not mistake the occasional gunshot sounds for danger. They are distant electricity. They are transformers rupturing”
― Susan Cormier, Dead Bees Still Sting: Tales of Life at the Edge of Nature

“the average beekeeper loses between a third and a half of their colonies annually. If similar death rates occurred among other livestock—cattle or chickens”
― Susan Cormier, Dead Bees Still Sting: Tales of Life at the Edge of Nature

“They are not milestone markers of significant achievements. They are props for stories. I hang my memories on them.”
― Susan Cormier, Dead Bees Still Sting: Tales of Life at the Edge of Nature

“And that change in position”
― Susan Cormier, Dead Bees Still Sting: Tales of Life at the Edge of Nature