Here Is the Beehive Quotes

“I want him to tell me that our love shattered you.
I want him to tell me that if you were alive
you would have picked me
eventually.”
― Sarah Crossan, Here Is the Beehive

“And I never found out whether or not
the way to win you was
to be different to Rebecca,
to be better than her
or simply
to be her completely.”
― Sarah Crossan, Here Is the Beehive

“It was not a date.
It was a sandwich.”
― Sarah Crossan, Here Is the Beehive

“Marriage is work, that's the point.”
― Sarah Crossan, Here Is the Beehive

“It felt like love too
when you compared me to Rebecca,
told me she was without ambition,
that you respected my work ethic,
my reluctance to be 'just a stay-at-home mother'.

But when Rebecca was at home
with the kids and we were together fucking...
you benefited from her lack of drive then, didn't you?
And benefited from my work ethic.”
― Sarah Crossan, Here Is the Beehive

“You called me Rebecca once, by mistake,
and it would have felt like a punch
but as we were in the middle of an argument,
it was actually OK.”
― Sarah Crossan, Here Is the Beehive

“We planned that first time
without admitting to it
and when it came
we both knew:
there could be
no simple full stop.”
― Sarah Crossan, Here Is the Beehive

“Here is the beehive
Where are the bees?
Hidden away where nobody sees.
Watch and you'll see them
come out of the hive.
One, two, three, four, five!”
― Sarah Crossan, Here Is the Beehive