“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”
― The Secret Life of Bees
― The Secret Life of Bees
“It was the in-between time, before day leaves and night comes, a time I’ve never been partial to because of the sadness that lingers in the space between going and coming.”
― The Secret Life of Bees
― The Secret Life of Bees
“You are my everlasting home. Don't you ever be afraid. I am enough. We are enough.”
― The Secret Life of Bees
― The Secret Life of Bees
“After you get stung, you can't get unstung
no matter how much you whine about it.”
― The Secret Life of Bees
no matter how much you whine about it.”
― The Secret Life of Bees
“I wondered what it was like to be inside her, just a curl of flesh swimming in the darkness, the quiet things that had passed between us.”
― The Secret Life of Bees
― The Secret Life of Bees
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