The Keeper of Bees Quotes

“I think people who read novels are fantasists in desperate need of emotional dope to anesthetize them against the reality of their meaningless existence.”
― Gregory Ashe, The Keeper of Bees

“Most people dealing with PTSD find some way of numbing themselves: drugs, alcohol, sexual excess—” “Let’s hear more about that one,” Somers murmured into Hazard’s shoulder. Hazard pinched the inside of Somers’s thigh, and Somers yelped. “—while other people depersonalize and dissociate. They often describe it as feeling dead inside, unable to connect with other people, unable to experience pleasure or love or affection, even with the ones who are closest to them.”
― Gregory Ashe, The Keeper of Bees