“We walked along the river with the words streaming behind us like ribbons in the night.”
Source: The Secret Life of Bees (2002)
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The Secret Life of Bees
The Secret Life of Bees is a book by author Sue Monk Kidd. Set in 1964, it is a coming-of-age story about loss and betrayal. It received critical acclaim and was a New York Times bestseller. It won the 2004 Book Sense Book of the Year Awards , and was nominated for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction.
Source: The Secret Life of Bees
“We can't think of changing our skin color. Change the world - that's how we gotta think.”
Source: The Secret Life of Bees
“People who think dying is the worst thing don't know a thing about life.”
Variant: Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life.
Source: The Secret Life of Bees (2002)
Source: The Secret Life of Bees
Variant: People, in general, would rather die than forgive. It'shard. If God said in plain language, "I'm giving you a choice, forgive or die," a lot of people would go ahead and order their coffin.
Source: The Secret Life of Bees
Source: The Secret Life of Bees
Source: The Secret Life of Bees
