“You can tell which girls lack mothers by the look of their hair...”
― The Secret Life of Bees
― The Secret Life of Bees
“In the photograph by my bed my mother is perpetually smiling on me. I guess I have forgiven us both, although sometimes in the night my dreams will take me back to the sadness, and I have to wake up and forgive us again.”
― The Secret Life of Bees
― The Secret Life of Bees
“I watched him, filled with tenderness and ache, wondering what it was that connected us. Was it the wounded places down inside people that sought each other out, that bred a kind of love between them?”
― The Secret Life of Bees
― The Secret Life of Bees
“Perhaps one central reason for loving dogs is that they take us away from this obsession with ourselves. When our thoughts start to go in circles, and we seem unable to break away, wondering what horrible event the future holds for us, the dog opens a window into the delight of the moment.”
― Dogs Never Lie About Love: Reflections on the Emotional World of Dogs
― Dogs Never Lie About Love: Reflections on the Emotional World of Dogs
“I wished she'd been smart enough, or loving enough, to realize everybody has burdens that crush them, only they don't give up their children.”
― The Secret Life of Bees
― The Secret Life of Bees
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