Lindsay Eagar Quotes

#1. Twelve is the border between childhood and old.

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#2. The patchy starlight gives every one of his bee-sting scars its own shadow, so his face mirrors the desert landscape: bursts of scrub and rocks, miles of flat.

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#3. Stories don't end," he says. "They just turn into new beginnings." (pg. 123)

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#4. Marriage is just another kind of sameness.

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#5. What's scarier than death? Not living.

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#6. It is a big world, full of things that steal your breath and fill your belly with fire...But where you go when you leave isn't as important as where you go when you come home.

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#7. More word salad. Even when he seems just fine, the dementia simmers underneath, waiting to burst out.

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#8. Things are only impossible if you stop to think about them.

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#9. Measuring time isn't as simple as adding or subtracting minutes from a clock...You must find your own measuring stick.

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#10. It doesn't match anything you have."

Exactly, I think. This bracelet matches nothing in my wardrobe . . . Nothing in my life. The bracelet isn't anything like who I am; it's a bracelet for who I want to be.

Carolina on p. 189 of HOUR OF THE BEES by Lindsay Eagar

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#11. You want to apologize now that I'm dying. But death is not a reason to do anything. Life, mi cielo. Life is the reason to do everything.

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#12. The roots of a tree stretch deeper than you think...No matter how far away you are when you bloom, you are always tied to your roots.

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#13. Do not be afraid to live and you will not be afraid to die.

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