The Secret Life of Bees (2008)

Dakota Fanning: Lily Owens

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Quotes 

• Zach Taylor : Miss August told me about you being here helping out. She didn't mention anything about you being white.

  Lily Owens : Maybe she didn't notice.

• Lily Owens : If your favorite color is blue, why did you paint the house pink?

  August Boatwright : [chuckles]  That was May's doing. When we went to the paint shop, she latched on to a color called, "Caribbean Pink." She said it made her feel like dancing a Spanish Flamenco. I personally thought it was the tackiest color I had ever seen, but I figured if it could lift May's heart, it was good enough to live in.

  Lily Owens : That was awfully nice of you.

  August Boatwright : Well, I don't know. Some things in life, like the color of a house, don't really matter. But lifting someone's heart? Now, that matters.

• Lily Owens : You think something being an impossibility makes you think about it even more?

  May Boatwright : Like what?

  Lily Owens : I don't know. Like... kissin'.

  May Boatwright : That ain't impossible. When I was 15, I made a 7UP cake for this boy. After that, he kissed me all the time.

  Lily Owens : What'd it feel like?

  May Boatwright : Like I was gonna burst.

  Lily Owens : Miss May, I know you get real sad sometimes. My daddy never feels. He never felt anything. I had rather be like you.

  May Boatwright : A worker bee weigh less than a flower petal, but she can fly with a load heavier than her. But she only lives for or five weeks. Sometimes not feeling is the only way you can survive.

  May Boatwright : [noticing Zach smiling over a Lily]  You want me to help you make a 7UP cake?

• Lily Owens : [to T. Ray]  My whole life has been nothing but a hole, where my mother should have been. It always left me aching, but I never thought about what it did to you.

• Rosaleen Daise : I feel like I've been beaten with a stick.

  Lily Owens : You have been beaten, remember?

  Rosaleen Daise : But not with a stick...

• Lily Owens : [First lines]  I killed my mother when I was four years old. She was all I ever wanted and I took her away.