Bee > Bee's Quotes

“I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night; but if you have been - if you've been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you - you will know that there comes in the end a sort of quietness. You feel as if nothing is ever going to happen again.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

“At times the world may seem an unfriendly and sinister place, but believe that there is much more good in it than bad. All you have to do is look hard enough. and what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey.”
― Lemony Snicket

“I am the cosmos and energy and matter of the universe held perfectly together with skin and bone.”
― Rachel Griffin, Wild Is the Witch

“It’s exhausting, as it always was, to live with such a breadth of things to take up one’s attention–exhausting, the way there can be too much world, even in its final stages. Exhausting, to be so busy and so bored with no time left for either.”
― Julia Armfield, Private Rites

“Postural work is a familiar recitation of the same narrative we have been fed since birth; a narrative were in physical health is the ultimate wealth and the decay of the physical body marks the end of all that matters. But what’s the real purpose of keeping your body in perfect condition? To prevent it from aging? To keep it frozen in time? But the art of aging is life’s greatest crescendo. Your aging is your loudest moment, your greatest depth. You exist to age.”
― Jessamyn Stanley