The Beekeeper Of Aleppo Quotes
"Look at her, because I think she is disappearing."
"They were broken. My dreams were everywhere."
"I dream only of murder now, always the same dream."
"There is one painting of the Queiq I wish I could see again."
"A place where the sun is just rising, touching the walls around the ancient city."
"The billboard just outside says that there are too many of us, that this island will break under our weight."
"Look at these little warriors," Afra would say on the days when she came with Sami."
"But what I loved most was her laugh. She laughed like we would never die."
"Sometimes, in my mind, he is sitting at the table and he is eating lakhma."
"I am pleased for you!" the Moroccan man says.
"I can’t close my eyes. I think back to our time in Istanbul."
"When you belong to someone and they are gone, who are you?"
"But why didn’t he help the boys when they took off their heads?"
"We’ve started the journey—there’s no point giving up now."
"I know them. I know when they will get angry."
"You see, you have to relax and turn into nature. Then you will be fine."
"The thoughts I have poison me and I am alone with them."
"People are not like bees. We do not work together, we have no real sense of a greater good."
"Our sons have gone to where the bees are, Nuri, to where the flowers and the bees are."
"I wish I could go back to that moment and stand there surrounded by the bees."
"I followed the laughter of children around every corner, in the open fields, beneath the trees."
"I rubbed my eyes, thinking I might have fallen asleep, but the octopuses still hung there."
"Sitting down on the floor beside her, I wrapped my arms around her."
"I wondered if Mohammed was still playing, or if he was on his way back to the cabin."
"The man laughed now. 'No. They're here to help us. Just close your eyes now.'"
"I decided to lie down on the ground, by the doorway of another cabin, so that I was close to the warmth of their gas fire."
"Afra devoured it, licking her fingers, thanking me for making it."
"Afra finally spoke. 'I made this for you,' she said."
"I wake up with Afra’s hand resting on my chest."
"I can feel her fingers on mine, but there is also something else."
"The world opens, and I am back at the river, and the moon is higher in the sky."
"The bees are silent at this time. Only the nurse bees work by moonlight."
"I looked again and I see seagulls. Lucy Fisher is right."
"I imagine the roads and the houses and the side streets and the parks."
"The laughter seemed to be coming from outside, from the courtyard below."
"I begin to think about the bees. I can see them in the summer sky."
"I hear the sound of the marble again, rolling along the floorboards."
"I sit down on the ground, close to the water, and wait for sunrise."
"The air and the sky and the trees were full of bees the color of the sun."
"I realized that I hadn’t replied to Mustafa."
"The crickets sang in unison, then fell silent for a brief moment."
"I ran through the memory three times in my mind."
"I watched the sky change color, the clouds and the birds moving across it."
"I saw Sami die. And that’s when it all went black."
"I could hear footsteps and voices and the murmur of the TV in the living room."
"Before we leave I would like to play with my friends in the garden one last time. Is that okay?"
"Inside the person you know there is a person you do not know."
"If I let him live, we would still have this chance to escape."
"You’re lucky you’re rich. Most people have to make a terrible journey through the whole of Europe to reach England."
"I remember tucking him into bed, in the room with the blue tiles, and sitting beside him to read the children’s book I had found at the market."
"What are you doing? Where are you taking them?"
"They have no legs so I’m helping them. I’m going to drive them to the moon!"
"I have come from Yorkshire, in the north of England; I took the night bus. But I have traveled much further than that."
"You will be able to see the colors—I will take you myself; we will walk when it is warm, and I will take you to the places where the bees go."
"I fell in love with you as soon as I saw you."
"And then he chased him with a baseball bat..."
"You see, I thought you were a different person."