# Quote — Chris Cleave, The Other Hand

> That summer—the summer my husband died—we all had identities we were loath to let go of. My son had his Batman costume, I still used my husband’s surname, and Little Bee, though she was relatively safe with us, still clung to the name she had taken in a time of terror. We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refuges from ourselves.

- Author: [Chris Cleave](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chris-cleave.md)
- Book: [The Other Hand](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chris-cleave/the-other-hand.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Other_Hand#Quotes) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/chris-cleave/the-other-hand/that-summer-the-summer

## More from this book

> Save [Little Bee] and there’s a whole world of them behind her. A whole swarm of Little Bees, coming here to feed.”

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chris-cleave/the-other-hand/save-little-bee.md)

> I smiled and watched Charlie running away with the children , with his head down and his happy arms spinning like propellers, and I cried with joy when the children all began to play together in the sparkling foam of the waves that broke between worlds at the point. It was beautiful […] and that is a word I do not need to explain to you, because now we are all speaking the same language

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chris-cleave/the-other-hand/i-smiled-and.md)

> In place of my finger is a stump, a phantom digit that used to be responsible for the E, D, and C keys on my laptop. I can’t rely on E, D, and C anymore. They go missing when I need them most. Pleased becomes please. Ecstasies becomes stasis.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chris-cleave/the-other-hand/in-place-of-my-finger.md)