"And I finally see how your love is the best of me..." ~ "Til You're Home" lyrics added 6/11/23
Bright summer day in July 2011"Cutting into the secret chamber of your heart and setting the sadness free." p. 266
"Desire kicked in when it pleased without noticing the rules we lived and died by." ~ Secret Life Of Bees p. 126
"Envied turtles in their shells how they could disappear at will." p. 125 Secret Life Of Bees [However, see "T" below]
Gratitude: "Get up from there and live like the Glorious [person] you are." p. 289 and "Guardian Angles" by the Judds listen here
He was my North, my South, my East and West / My working week and my Sunday rest / My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song / I thought that love would last forever; I was wrong." ~ W.H. Auden
"I loved him enough," she said, "I just loved my freedom more." ~ Secret Life Of Bees p. 146
"Joy: Jesus, Others, Yourself, in that order" ~ Secret Life Of Bees p. 162
"Lifting a person's heart -- now that matters." p. 147
Mom and I went for a swim at Wayland's! 9/22/23
"Nurse bees ... had a gift for nuturing and they fed all the baby bees... Nest builders had true math aptitude." 147-8
"Only purpose grand enough for a human life: Not just to love - but to persist in love." p. 289
Precious time on earth : "People can start out one way, and by the time life gets through with them they end up completely different..." ~ Secret Life Of Bees p. 293
"Queenlessness: The queen, for her part, is the unifying force of the community; if she is...
Removed from the hive, the workers very quickly sense her absence. After a few hours, or even less, the show unmistakable signs of queenlessness." ~ Man and Insects by L.H. Newman
"Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone / Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone / Silence the pianos and with muffled drum...let the mourners come ... Put crepe bows round the white necks of public doves /Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves... Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun / Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood / For nothing now can ever come to any good." ~ W.H. Auden
"Teach me how to do that. Teach me how to take this all in." p. 244 Secret Life Of Bees
"... Utterly overwhelming impact the death of a loved one has. It asks, how can anything, or anyone, possibly continue to exist? From the point of view of the bereaved person, the world, and everything in it, should immediately stop. Or at least, have the decency to go into mourning." Source
"Velvety place where you don't yet remember what you dreamed." ~ Secret Life Of Bees p. 174
"Women made the best bee keepers 'cause they have a special ability built into them to love creatures that sting." ~ Secret Life Of Bees p. 144
eXcessive work had finally caught up with them." ~ Secret Life Of Bees p. 147
"You gotta imagine what's never been." p.121 "You have to find a mother inside yourself. We all do. Even if we already have a mother..." ~ Secret Life Of Bees p. 288
"Zach showed up with the prettiest notebook -- green with rosebuds on the cover... That's when I knew I would never find a better firend than Zachary Taylor." ~ Secret Life Of Bees p. 134-5
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