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Little Bee
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"Little Bee" Quotes

"Little Bee" tells the intertwined stories of a Nigerian refugee and a British woman whose lives are forever changed by a traumatic event on a Nigerian beach.

Quotes

The only way to get a trajectory that you can control is to try to make people love you.

Chris Cleave

lovecontrol

We must see all scars as beauty.

Chris Cleave

beauty

We must honor the light within us as well as the darkness.

Chris Cleave

lightdarkness

The way you keep your soul on the right path is to make some decisions that are very difficult.

Chris Cleave

souldecisions

We must see all scars as words on our bodies.

Chris Cleave

scarsself-acceptance

The only thing you have to be by the age of 23 is yourself.

Chris Cleave

self-discoveryindividuality

I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly.

Chris Cleave

scarsacceptance

I asked you a question and you answered back the truth. That's good.

Chris Cleave

truthhonesty

Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive.

Chris Cleave

sadnessstorytelling

The thing is to be brave and move forward.

Chris Cleave

braveryresilience