The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri- Quotes
Mohan Gulrajani
The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri - Quotes
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“Where
there are bees there are flowers, and wherever there are flowers there is new
life and hope.”
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“But
in Syria there is a saying: inside the person you know, there is a person you
do not know.”
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“Sometimes
we create such powerful illusions, so that we do not get lost in the darkness.”
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“When
you belong to someone and they are gone, who are you?”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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Cause
of death - This broken world.”
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“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?”
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“I
wanted to set forth the idea that among profound, unspeakable loss, humans can
still find love and light—and see one another.”
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“What
he is really saying is this: this is how the story must end; our hearts can
bear no more loss.”
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“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.”
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“Inside
the person you know, there is a person you do not know.”
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“It
takes bravery to cry out, to release what is in your heart.”
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“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.”
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“It
took me years to understand them, and once I did, the world around me never
looked or sounded the same.”
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“People
are not like bees. We do not work together, we have no real sense of a greater
good –”
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“But
what I loved most was her laugh. She laughed like we would never die.”
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“The
sound of birdsong never changes.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
Dr. Mohan Gulrajani
Gurugram - Haryana - 122009
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