“When it's time to die, go ahead and die, and when it's time to live, live. Don't sort-of-maybe live, but live like you're going all out, like you're not afraid.”

— Sue Monk Kidd, book The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees (2002)

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