The Death of Bees QUOTES

2 " Then they start going on about cancer and how organic living is the way forward, totally ignoring how expensive it is to be organic and that there are a lot of people out there grateful if they can afford regular living. "

― Lisa O'Donnell , The Death of Bees

4 " Don't normal people run in the rain? Even abnormal people, most of them anyway, the only people I can think of who walk in the rain are tree buffers, bag ladies, and total psychos. "

― Lisa O'Donnell , The Death of Bees

6 " He’s the type of person who loves the idea of being an outsider because he thinks by not belonging it makes him superior in some way. What he doesn’t get is that the real outsiders would do anything to be on the inside. A real outsider can’t be seen at all. They’re people who look like they belong when inside they know they don’t. They’re people who would do anything to appear normal, while harboring the secret knowledge that they’re anything but normal. "

― Lisa O'Donnell , The Death of Bees

8 " There is no moment in which we say good-bye, there is no finality as he slips into peacefulness, he simply leaves us, and though I seek courage when he passes I am weakened by tears, but I must hide them for he leaves us a lie to conceal, a lie he sent to save us. "

― Lisa O'Donnell , The Death of Bees

10 " It never occurs to any of these balloons that someone smoking on school premises isn’t rebelling against the system, we’re not even thinking about the system, we just want a fag. It’s a survival technique, a lot of teachers smoke but no one’s barging in the staff room judging their lives, their futures, putting them on detention. "

― Lisa O'Donnell , The Death of Bees

12 " We always felt divine in this place, tasting a desired view of the world, knowing a voracious appetite for the love that dare not speak its name, my soul sewn to your soul. Our fortunate embroidery. "

― Lisa O'Donnell , The Death of Bees

14 " people just don’t couple wealth with neglect, idiocy with affluence. "

― Lisa O'Donnell , The Death of Bees

16 " Birds keep chirping and music keeps playing. Life continues as another life ebbs away.

We have seen death before, Marnie and I, a mountain of ice melting over time, drops of water freezing at your core reminding you every day of that which has vanished, but the despair we know today is a sadness sailing sorrow through every bone and knuckle.

There is no moment in which we say good-bye, there is no finality as he slips into peacefulness, he simply leaves us, and though I seek courage when he passes I am weakened by tears, but I must hide them for he leaves us a lie to conceal, a lie he sent to save us. "

― Lisa O'Donnell , The Death of Bees

18 " Urban living has certainly hardened them. The neglect and the poverty, it steals so much from children, forcing them to snatch whatever's offered them--and how they grab at the things put upon them by strangers, the unnatural comforts and abhorrent cruelties. "

― Lisa O'Donnell , The Death of Bees

20 " ...a blind man running for a bus could have told them he was queer. "

― Lisa O'Donnell , The Death of Bees