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“I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. But (...) we must see all scars as beauty. (...) Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, 'I survived'.”
Chris Cleave“There are countries of the world, and regions of one's own mind, where it is unwise to travel.”
Chris Cleave, Little Bee“...disaster, when it is quite sure of its own strength, will announce itself by hardly moving its lips...”
Chris Cleave, Little Bee“How well it had suited me, that absolute license to march up to evildoers and demand who, what, where, when and why?”
Chris Cleave, Little Bee“Do those scars cover the whole of you, like the stars and the moons on your dess? I though that would be pretty too, and I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. But you and I, we must make an agreement to defy them. "We must see all scars as beauty. OKay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on dying. A scar means, I survivied.”
Chris Cleave, Little Bee“We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.”
Chris Cleave, Little Bee“Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.”
Chris Cleave, Little Bee“I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us. ”
Chris Cleave, Little Bee