The Secret Life of Bees (2008)

Sophie Okonedo: May Boatwright

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• 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?

• Rosaleen Daise : How come you all got names from a calendar?

  May Boatwright : Our mama loved spring and summer. We had an April too, but she... she died when she was little.

  [runs out of the room, sobbing and humming]