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“You know, some things don't matter that much, Lily. Like the color of a house. How big is that in the over-all scheme of life? But lifting a person's heart-- now, that matters. The whole problem with people is--"
"They don't know what matters and what doesn't," I said, filling in her sentence and feeling proud of myself for doing so.
"I was gonna say, The problem is they know what matters, but they don't choose it. You know how hard that is, Lily? I love May, but it was still so hard to choose the Caribbean Pink. The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.”
― The Secret Life of Bees
"They don't know what matters and what doesn't," I said, filling in her sentence and feeling proud of myself for doing so.
"I was gonna say, The problem is they know what matters, but they don't choose it. You know how hard that is, Lily? I love May, but it was still so hard to choose the Caribbean Pink. The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.”
― The Secret Life of Bees
“A worker bee is just over a centimeter long and weighs only about sixty milligrams; nevertheless, she can fly with a load heavier than herself.”
― The Secret Life of Bees
― The Secret Life of Bees
“She told him that he had the most beautiful voice she'd ever heard, that it sounded like whiskey and wood smoke.”
― Mystic River
― Mystic River
“You have to know when to prod and when to be quiet, when to let things take their course. That's what I've been trying to do.”
― The Secret Life of Bees
― The Secret Life of Bees
“You just don't interrupt somebody's mourning with your own problems.”
― The Secret Life of Bees
― The Secret Life of Bees
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