Bee

“It wasn't so easy though, ending the war. A war is a huge fire; the ashes from it drift far, and settle slowly.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might like to be.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger