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81 " You've been halfway living your life for too long. May was saying that when it's time to die, go ahead and die, and when it's time to live, live. Don't sort-of-maybe live, but live like you're going all out, like you're not afraid. "
― Sue Monk Kidd , The Secret Life of Bees
82 " This surprised me because it made me realize that what I sought was not outside myself. It was within me, already there, waiting. Awakening was really the act of remembering myself, remembering this deep Feminine Source. "
― Sue Monk Kidd , The Dance of the Dissident Daughter
83 " And when you get down to it, Lily, that is the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to love but to persist in love. "
84 " I have knots in my years that I can`t undo, and this is one of the worst--the night I did wrong and Mauma got caught "
― Sue Monk Kidd
85 " Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life. "
86 " It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening. "
87 " I have noticed that if you look carefully at people's eyes the first five seconds they look at you, the truth of their feelings will shine through for just an instant before it flickers away. "
88 " All my life I've thought I needed someone to complete me, now I know I need to belong to myself. "
― Sue Monk Kidd , The Mermaid Chair
89 " When it's time to die, go ahead and die, and when it's time to live, live. Don't sort-of-maybe live, but live like you're going all out, like you're not afraid. "
90 " Sunset is the saddest light there is. "
91 " This is the autumn of wonders, yet every day, every single day, I go back to that burned afternoon in August when T. Ray left. I go back to that one moment when I stood in the driveway with small rocks and clumps of dirt around my feet and looked back at the porch. And there they were. All these mothers. I have more mothers than any eight girls off the street. They are the moons shining over me. "
92 " Whenever I opened one, T. Ray said, “Who do you think you are, Julius Shakespeare?” The man sincerely thought that was Shakespeare’s first name, and if you think I should have corrected him, you are ignorant about the art of survival. "
93 " I liked the way Walter Cronkite looked, with his black glasses and his voice that knew everything worth knowing. Here was a man who was not against books, that was plain. Take everything T. Ray was not, shape it into a person, and you would get Walter Cronkite. "
94 " Drifting off to sleep, I thought about her. How nobody is perfect. How you just have to close your eyes and breathe out and let the puzzle of the human heart be what it is. "
95 " There's nothing like a song about lost love to remind you how everything precious can slip from the hinges where you've hung it so careful. "
96 " You gotta imagine what's never been. "
97 " The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters. "
98 " It's your time to live, don't mess it up. "
99 " In a weird way I must have loved my little collection of hurts and wounds. They provided me with some real nice sympathy, with the feeling I was exceptional...What a special case I was. "
100 " The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them. I was wondering what my body knew that I didn't. "