Little Bee Quotes

“I planned how I would kill myself in the time of Churchill (stand under bombs), Victoria (throw myself under a horse), and Henry the Eighth (marry Henry the Eighth)- Little Bee”
― 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

“I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. But (...) we must see all scars as beauty. (...) Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, 'I survived'.”
― Chris Cleave, Little Bee

“...disaster, when it is quite sure of its own strength, will announce itself by hardly moving its lips...”
― Chris Cleave, Little Bee

“Your whole life, you had to fit it onto one sheet of paper. There was a black line around the edge of the sheet, a border, and if you wrote outside the line then your application would not be valid. They only gave you enough space to write down the very saddest things that had happened to you. That was the worst part. Because if you cannot read the beautiful things that have happened in someone's life, why should you care about their sadness?”
― Chris Cleave, Little Bee