The Beekeeper of Aleppo Quotes

“Where there are bees there are flowers, and wherever there are flowers there is new life and hope.”
― 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

“Sometimes we create such powerful illusions, so that we do not get lost in the darkness.”
― Christy Lefteri, The Beekeeper of Aleppo

“When you belong to someone and they are gone, who are you?”
― Christy Lefteri, The Beekeeper of Aleppo

“But what I loved most was her laugh. She laughed like we would never die.”
― Christy Lefteri, The Beekeeper of Aleppo

“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

“It's amazing, the way we love people from the day we are born, the way we hold on, as if we are holding on to life itself.”
― Christy Lefteri, The Beekeeper of Aleppo

“Name - My beautiful boy.

Cause of death - This broken world.”
― Christy Lefteri, The Beekeeper of Aleppo

“Sometimes I think that if I keep walking, I will find some light, but I know that I can walk to the other side of the world and there will still be darkness. It's not like the darkness of the night, which also has white light from the stars, from the moon. This darkness is inside me and has nothing to do with the outside world.”
― Christy Lefteri, The Beekeeper of Aleppo

“They communicated without words from the most primitive part of the soul. I remembered her laughing about this, saying that she felt like an animal, and how she realized that we are less human in our times of greatest love and greatest fear.”
― Christy Lefteri, The Beekeeper of Aleppo

“O Allah keep me alive as long as is good for me, and when death is better for me, take me.”
― Christy Lefteri, The Beekeeper of Aleppo

“I wanted to set forth the idea that among profound, unspeakable loss, humans can still find love and light—and see one another.”
― Christy Lefteri, The Beekeeper of Aleppo

“Inside the person you know, there is a person you do not know.”
― Christy Lefteri, The Beekeeper of Aleppo

“People are not like bees. We do not work together, we have no real sense of a greater good –”
― Christy Lefteri, The Beekeeper of Aleppo

“I wish I could escape my mind, that I could be free of this world and everything I have seen in the last few years. And the children who have survived - what will become of them? How will they be able to live in this world?”
― Christy Lefteri, The Beekeeper of Aleppo

“It takes bravery to cry out, to release what is in your heart.”
― Christy Lefteri, The Beekeeper of Aleppo

“What he is really saying is this: this is how the story must end; our hearts can bear no more loss.”
― Christy Lefteri, The Beekeeper of Aleppo

“It’s amazing, the way we love people from the day we are born, the way we hold on, as if we are holding on to life itself.”
― Christy Lefteri, The Beekeeper of Aleppo

“Where there are bees there are flowers, and where there are flowers there is new life and hope.”
― Christy Lefteri, The Beekeeper of Aleppo

“There is always one person in a group who has more courage than the rest. It takes bravery to cry out, to release what is in your heart.”
― Christy Lefteri, The Beekeeper of Aleppo

“It took me years to understand them, and once I did, the world around me never looked or sounded the same.”
― Christy Lefteri, The Beekeeper of Aleppo

“Yuanfen, a mysterious force that causes two lives to cross paths in a meaningful way.”
― Christy Lefteri, The Beekeeper of Aleppo

“The sound of birdsong never changes.”
― Christy Lefteri, The Beekeeper of Aleppo

“But if we had known, what would we have done? We would have been too afraid to live, too afraid to be free and to make plans.”
― 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

“Because putting ourselves out there helps us to develop real empathy and understanding, and having the ability to structure and tell a story helps us to reveal truths and emotions to our readers.”
― Christy Lefteri, The Beekeeper of Aleppo

“Sometimes I think that if I keep walking, I will find some light, but I know that I can walk to the other side of the world and there will still be darkness.”
― Christy Lefteri, The Beekeeper of Aleppo

“Aleppo is now like the dead body of a loved one, it has no life, no soul, it is full of rotting blood.”
― Christy Lefteri, The Beekeeper of Aleppo

“I wished that there was someone to guide me, to tell me what to do and which way to go, but I felt completely alone.”
― Christy Lefteri, The Beekeeper of Aleppo

“When I closed my eyes and breathed in the smell, I could pretend for a moment that I hadn't seen the things I'd seen.”
― Christy Lefteri, The Beekeeper of Aleppo