Ellen

“Why do you pretend what we do is nothing?” she asked. “Every day, all the chaos and messiness of life happens and every day we clean it all up. Without us, they would just wallow in filth and disorder and nothing of any consequence would ever get done. Who taught you to sneer at that? I’ll tell you who. Someone who took their mother for granted.”
― Grady Hendrix, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

“But when she was sad my world was dark. I didn’t have a choice about this. She was more powerful than I. She cried like a child, laughed like bells ringing, and her smile was the most beautiful I’ve ever seen. She could argue for hours without ever pausing. Afra loved, she hated, and she inhaled the world like it was a rose. All this was why I loved her more than life.”
― Christy Lefteri, The Beekeeper of Aleppo

“You see?" he whispered. "You see? You have to relax and turn into nature. Then you will be fine”
― Christy Lefteri, The Beekeeper of Aleppo

“But in Syria there is a saying: inside the person you know, there is a person you do not know.”
― Christy Lefteri, The Beekeeper of Aleppo