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“Let them say whatever gives them comfort.”
― Chris Cleave, Little Bee

“One never knows.”
― Antione de Saint-Exupery

“Sometimes a person can say I’m sorry a thousand times and that glue will never dry.”
― Stephanie Kallos, Broken for You

“All our souls are written in our eyes.”
― Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac

“Decisions, they shape our destiny.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Out of the Easy

“Let me tell you something 'bout these rich Uptown folk," said Cokie. "They got everything that money can buy, their bank accounts are fat, but they ain't happy. They ain't ever gone be happy. You know why? They soul broke. And money can't fix that, no sir.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Out of the Easy

“Some things just won’t go away, no matter how hard you scrub.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Out of the Easy

“Tragedy was a big social event, and everyone wanted in on it.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Out of the Easy

“I leapt eagerly into books. The characters’ lives were so much more interesting than the lonely heartbeat of my own.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Out of the Easy

“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
― Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

“We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, 'I survived'.”
― Chris Cleave, The Other Hand

“Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive. The next thing you know something fine will happen to her, something marvelous, and then she will turn around and smile.”
― Chris Cleave, Little Bee

“To be well in your mind you have first to be free.”
― Chris Cleave, Little Bee

“A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.”
― Chris Cleave, Little Bee

“You travel here and you travel there, trying to get out from under the cloud, and nothing works, and then one day you realize you've been carrying the weather around with you.”
― Chris Cleave, Little Bee

“However long the moon disappears, someday it must shine again.”
― Chris Cleave, The Other Hand

“If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.”
― Chris Cleave, Little Bee

“That is the trouble with happiness-all of it is built on top of something that men want.”
― Chris Cleave, Little Bee

“At some point you just have to turn around and face your life head on.”
― Chris Cleave, Little Bee

“I was carrying two cargoes. Yes, one of them was horror, but the other one was hope.”
― Chris Cleave, Little Bee

“They say that in the hour before an earthquake the clouds hang leaden in the sky, the winds slows to a hot breath, and the birds fall quiet in the trees of the town square. Yes but these are the same portents that precede lunchtime, frankly.”
― Chris Cleave, Little Bee

“People wonder how they are ever going to change their lives, but really it is frighteningly easy.”
― Chris Cleave, Little Bee

“I think my ideal man would speak many languages. He would speak Ibo and Yoruba and English and French and all of the others. He could speak with any person, even the soldiers, and if there was violence in their heart he could change it. He would not have to fight, do you see? Maybe he would not be very handsome, but he would be beautiful when he spoke. He would be very kind, even if you burned his food because you were laughing and talking with your girlfriends instead of watching the cooking. He would just say, 'Ah, never mind'.”
― Chris Cleave, Little Bee

“It was hard not to be full of hope”
― Chris Cleave, Little Bee

“There’s eight million people here pretending the others aren’t getting on their nerves. I believe it’s called civilization.”
― Chris Cleave, Little Bee

“I do not know why the mind chooses these small things to break itself on.”
― Chris Cleave, Little Bee

“There are countries of the world, and regions of one's own mind, where it is unwise to travel.”
― Chris Cleave, Little Bee

“How to explain... that the warning signs were so slight? That disaster, when it is quite sure of its own strength, will announce itself by hardly moving its lips?”
― Chris Cleave, Little Bee

“Even for a girl like me, then, there comes a day when she can stop surviving and start living.”
― Chris Cleave, Little Bee

“You are not dumb, Yevette. All of us who have got this far, all of us who have survived- how can we be dumb? Dumb could not come this far,I am telling you.”
― Chris Cleave, Little Bee