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101 " Did you know there are 32 names for love in one of the Eskimo language? And we just have this one. We are so limited, you have to use the same word for loving Rosaleen as you do for loving Coke with peanuts. Isn't that a shame we don't have more ways to say it. "
― Sue Monk Kidd , The Secret Life of Bees
102 " Where do you come from?"...This is the number one most-asked question in all of South Carolina. We want to know if you are one of us, if your cousin knows our cousin, if your little sister went to school with our big brother, if you go to the same Baptist church as our ex-boss. We are looking for ways our stories fit together. "
103 " ...impossibility. I can tell you this much: the word is a great big log thrown on the fires of love. "
104 " I felt a trembling along my skin, a treaveling current that moved up my spine, down my arms, pulsing out from my fingertips. I was practically radiating. The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them. I was wondering what my body knew that I didn't. "
105 " Sometimes you want to fall on your knees and thank God in heaven for all the poor news reporting that goes on in the world. "
106 " I missed Rosaleen's snoring the way you'd miss the sound of the ocean waves after you've gotten used to sleeping with them. I didn't realize how it had comforted me. Quiteness has a strange, spongy hum that can nearly break your eardrums. "
107 " Every little thing wants to be loved. "
108 " When he spoke, the roughness was gone from his voice. "I could tell you I did it. That's what you wanna hear. I could tell you she did it to herself, but both ways I'd be lying. It was you who did it, Lily. You didn't mean it, but it was you. "
109 " There is nothing perfect...there is only life. "
110 " There is nothing perfect,' August said from the doorway. 'There is only life. "
111 " He will use the word "love", and the world will not stop spinning but go right on in its courses, like the river, like the bees, like everything. "
112 " She reminded me that the world was really one big bee yard, and the same rules worked fine in both places: Don't be afraid, as no life-loving bee wants to sting you. Still, don't be an idiot; wear long sleeves and long pants. Don't swat. Don't even think about swatting. If you feel angry, whistle. Anger agitates, while whistling melts a bee's temper. Act like you know what you're doing, even if you don't. Above all, send the bees love. Every little thing wants to be loved. "
113 " Spinners take out the bad stuff, leave in the good. I’ve always thought how nice it would be to have spinners like this for human beings. Just toss them in and let the spinner do its work. "
114 " There's nothing like a song about lost love to remind you how everything precious can slip through the hinges where you've hung it so careful. "
115 " The secret of a good lie is don't overly explain, and throw in one good detail. "
116 " When you're unsure of yourself," she said, "when you start pulling back into doubt and small living, she's the one inside saying, 'Get up from there and live like the glorious girl you are.' She's the power inside you, you understand?" ~August Boatwright "
117 " I felt half the time I was impersonating a girl instead of really being one. "
118 " I'm tired of carrying around the weight of the world. "
119 " The first week at August's was a consolation, a pure relief. The world will give you that once in a while, a brief time-out; the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner, where somebody dabs mercy on your beat-up life. "
120 " Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn’t know a thing about life. "