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The Beekeeper's Promise QUOTES

The Beekeeper's Promise QUOTES

1 " Then one by one they raised their faces to the sky. 'Like a field of sunflowers'. "

― Fiona Valpy , The Beekeeper's Promise

2 " Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain. "

― Fiona Valpy , The Beekeeper's Promise

3 " Being mindful. Rather than having a mind that’s full, "

― Fiona Valpy , The Beekeeper's Promise

4 " You smell of honey and sunshine. Even after all that. The darkness of this world can't dim the light that shines from you, Eliane. "

― Fiona Valpy , The Beekeeper's Promise

5 " Go to your fields and your gardens, and you shall learn that it is the pleasure of the bee to gather honey of the flower, But it is also the pleasure of the flower to yield its honey to the bee. For to the bee a flower is a fountain of life, And to the flower a bee is a messenger of love. "

― Fiona Valpy , The Beekeeper's Promise

6 " In the midst of winter, I found that there was within me an invincible summer. Retour à Tipasa, Albert Camus (1952) "

― Fiona Valpy , The Beekeeper's Promise

7 " her fingertips brushed his hand for a fleeting moment, a touch as gentle as the brush of a butterfly's wing "

― Fiona Valpy , The Beekeeper's Promise

8 " this is not just a marriage; it’s an affirmation of life and hope, of courage and quiet strength, of the defiant joy that exists alongside the sadness and the fear. "

― Fiona Valpy , The Beekeeper's Promise

9 " I know how living in a state of fear creates an inertia. It saps your strength and drains your energy, until you become trapped like a fly in a spider’s web. The more you struggle, at first, the tighter the silken threads are woven around you, until finally escape becomes impossible. "

― Fiona Valpy , The Beekeeper's Promise

10 " Au milieu de l’hiver, j’apprenais enfin qu’il y avait en moi un été invincible. In the midst of winter, I found that there was within me an invincible summer. Retour à Tipasa, Albert Camus (1952) "

― Fiona Valpy , The Beekeeper's Promise

11 " Au milieu de l’hiver, j’apprenais enfin qu’il y avait en moi un été invincible. In the midst of winter, I found that there was within me an invincible summer. "

― Fiona Valpy , The Beekeeper's Promise

12 " Eliane sighed and thought, Just like people. It was easier to be neighbourly when food was plentiful and you were plump and contented; these days it was a case of merely surviving and that seemed to bring out the worst, whether you were a chicken or a human being. By and large, the villagers of Coulliac had stuck together. But, "

― Fiona Valpy , The Beekeeper's Promise

13 " Under the sustained stresses of the war, the bonds of the community were beginning to fracture. "

― Fiona Valpy , The Beekeeper's Promise

14 " Dissociation, I think they call it, when you go somewhere else in your mind so that you can bear the unbearable. "

― Fiona Valpy , The Beekeeper's Promise

15 " her fingertips brushed is hand for a fleeting moment, a touch as gentle as the brush of a butterfly's wing "

― Fiona Valpy , The Beekeeper's Promise

16 " And I feel my heart beginning to unfurl and to reach outwards into the world again, like the delicate tendrils of a plant at the end of a long, long, spell of drought. "

― Fiona Valpy , The Beekeeper's Promise

17 " It’s a story of ordinary, everyday courage. A story about the determination to stay true to your Self through the darkest times so that when, at last, you cross back to safety you can find your voice again and live your life free from fear. "

― Fiona Valpy , The Beekeeper's Promise

18 " another, being pulled in opposite "

― Fiona Valpy , The Beekeeper's Promise

19 " drôle de guerre "

― Fiona Valpy , The Beekeeper's Promise

20 " Amor Vincit Omnia "

― Fiona Valpy , The Beekeeper's Promise