Tuesday, July 6, 2010

I feel it all, I feel it all.

"On the girl's brown legs there were many small white scars. I was thinking, Do those scars cover the whole of you, like the stars and the moons on your dress? I thought that would be pretty too, and I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. But you and I, we must make an agreement to defy them. We must see all scars as beauty...Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

In a few breaths' time I will speak some sad words to you. But you must hear them the same way we have agreed to see scars now. Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive. The next thing you know, something fine will happen to her, something marvelous, and then she will turn around and smile."
Little Bee, Chris Cleave

6 comments:

  1. I agree^ definitely interesting. (In a lovely sort of way) Is this from a book perhaps?

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  2. love this! hope you're having a lovely day! :)

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  3. Yes, I just finished the book last night. It is called "Little Bee." It is lovely and wonderfully written

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  4. ahhh you have read this book too!!! it is one of the most touching books i have ever read...i even did a blog post on it after i finished it! couldn't get it out of my head...and sometimes it still comes to mind...

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