“This is what I know about myself. She was all I wanted. And I took her away.”
― The Secret Life of Bees
― The Secret Life of Bees
“People who think dying is the worst thing don’t know a thing about life.”
― The Secret Life of Bees
― The Secret Life of Bees
“She was thinking about the way she’d always taken for granted that the world had certain people in it, either central to her days or unseen and infrequently thought of. How without any one of these people the world is a subtly but unmistakably altered place, the dial turned just one or two degrees.”
― Station Eleven
― Station Eleven
“When your fight has purpose—to free you from something, to interfere on the behalf of an innocent—it has a hope of finality. When the fight is about unraveling—when it is about your name, the places to which your blood is anchored, the attachment of your name to some landmark or event—there is nothing but hate, and the long, slow progression of people who feed on it and are fed it, meticulously, by the ones who come before them. Then the fight is endless, and comes in waves and waves, but always retains its capacity to surprise those who hope against it.”
― The Tiger's Wife
― The Tiger's Wife
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