Little Bee and life's reflection

3/30/2011 06:02:00 AM

Have just finished reading a book by Chris Cleave title : The Other Hand (UK version)  [ or Little Bee (US version)]
I fall in love with the dictions, the story, the plots, the whole things this book has inspirationally.

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Little Bee :
"We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived."

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Little Bee:
"What is an adventure? That depends on where you are starting from. Little girls in your country, they hide in the gap between the washing machine and the refrigerator and they make believe they are in the jungle, with green snakes and monkeys all around them. Me and my sister, we used to hide in a gap in the jungle, with green snakes and monkeys all around us, and make believe that we had a washing machine and a refrigerator. You live in a world of machines and you dream off things with beating hearts. We dream of machines, because we see where beating hearts have left us."

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Little Bee:
I was carrying two cargoes. Yes, one of them was horror, but the other one was hope."

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but the most-faved of all :
Sarah O'Rourke:

"Isn't it sad, growing up? You start off like my Charlie. You start off thinking you can kill all the baddies and save the world. Then you get a little bit older, maybe Little Bee's age, and you realize that some of the world's badness is inside you, that maybe you you're a part of it. And then you get a little bit older still, and a bit more comfortable, and you start wondering whether that badness you've seen in yourself is really that bad at all. You start talking about ten percent."

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