Quotes About Lily Owens In The Secret Life Of Bees

#1. Take what you can do and use it for the highest good to benefit others.

Oprah Winfrey

#2. For thence a paradox Which comforts while it mocks, - Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail: What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me: A brute I might have been, but would not sink i' the scale.

Robert Browning

#3. I wonder how well she sleeps at night, and what kind of dreams she has. I wish I could step into them like she steps into mine.

Isaac Marion

#4. Reading an audio book is a very odd experience because there are three people sitting out there while you're reading in this glass booth, and you can see their reactions.

Ruth Reichl

#5. Maeve could have lost a race with a tree

Michael J. Sullivan

#6. The king's name is a tower of strength.

William Shakespeare

#7. I like to be in my birthday suit as much as possible.

Courtney Robertson

#8. My parents absolutely did not think of themselves as part of the Great Migration. They knew they were part of a great wave. No one really talked about it in those terms or gave it a name.

Isabel Wilkerson

#9. The consequences of militancy do not disappear when the need for militancy is over. Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Germaine Greer

#10. We find ourselves unable to do anything but cling to the couch and force ourselves to breathe.

Jenny Lawson

#11. No matter how hard I worked, whatever I accomplished was attributed to my looks. If you're working your ass off, then you don't want to be told that you only got whatever because of the way you look. It takes the heart out of you.

Gloria Steinem