The Cure for Boredom is Curiosity.

Thank goodness. I finally finished The Secret Life of Bees. I had to force myself to finish, but I'm glad because it truly was a lovely story. By the last 2 chapters I had stopped thinking of home and my mom. I don't think I'll be rereading it anytime soon though. Way too depressing for me.

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Now for the quotes:

" . . .some things don't matter that much . . . Like the color of a house. How big is that in the overall scheme of life? But lifting a person's heart - now, that matters. The whole problem with people is that they know what matters, but they don't choose it . . . The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters." (page 147)

" . . . it's something everybody wants - - for someone to see the hurt done to them and set it down like it matters." (page 185)

"In life there are things you can't get over no matter how hard you try" (page 188)

"We can't think of changing our skin. Change the world that's how we gotta think." (page 216)

"Have you noticed the more you try not to think, the more elaborate your thinking episodes get?" (page 271)

"You have to find a mother inside yourself. We all do. Even if we already have a mother, we still have to find this part of ourselves inside." (page 288)

"I believe in the goodness of imagination." (page 300)