Tidbits from The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

"I woke beside a creek in a bed of kudzu vines.  A barge of mist floated along the water, and dragonflies, iridescent blue ones. darted back and forth like they were stitching up the air."

"farmhouses with wide porches and tractor-tire swings suspended from ropes on nearby tree branches; windmills sprouted up beside them, their giant silver petals creaking a little when the breezes rose."

"There was nothing I hated worse than clumps of whispering girls who got quiet when I passed....
...........I worried so much about how I looked and whether I was doing things right, I felt half the time I was impersonating a girl instead of really being one."

"I had asked God repeatedly to do something about T.Ray.  He'd gone to church for forty years and was only getting worse.  It seemed like this should tell God something."

"The world will give you that once in a while, a brief time out, the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner, where somebody dabs mercy on your beat-up life."

"orange and pink swirls still hung in the sky from sunset"  image from southern living.com

"darkness had settled in and the fireflies sparkled around our shoulders"

"cello music swelled out from the house, rising higher and higher until it lifted off the earth, sailing toward Venus"

"What happened when two people felt [pain] would it divide the hurt in two?  make it lighter to bear, the way feeling someone's joy seemed to double it?"