The Secret Life of Bees

I finished "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kid. It was great! I enjoyed the characters..the themes...the story. It was just a wonderful story unfolding throughout the book.

A friend of mine was talking about love. And she has always felt the word love isn't adequate. We say we love french fries. And we say we love our family. Obviously those are different kinds of loves. We would hope that the love we feel for french fries isn't the same as we feel for our families.

Quote from the book:

"And i loved the color blue- the real bright blue like the hat May had on at the Daughters of Mary meeting. And since coming here, I've learned to love bees and honey." And I wanted to add, And you, I love you, but i felt too awkward. 'Did you know there are thirty-two names for love in one of the Eskimo languages?' August said."

I do wish we had other words for love.

Other quotes...

"Women make the best beekeepers, 'cause they have a special ability built into them to love creatures that sting."

"I am enough. We are enough."

"There is nothing perfect. There is only life."

"Some things don't matter much. Like the color of a house. How big is that in the overall scheme of life? But lifting a person's heart--now, that matters. The whole problem with people is ... they know what matters, but they don't choose it... The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters."

"I believe in the goodness of imagination. ... I wake up to wonder every day."

"You've got to hear of these things before you can imagine them. You gotta imagine what's never been."

"If you need something from somebody, always give that person a way to hand it to you."

"You think too much. It would do you a world of good to stop thinking and just go with your feelings once in a blue moon."

"The only purpose grand enough for a human life... is not just to love--but to persist in love."