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121 " I watched him, filled with tenderness and ache, wondering what it was that connected us. Was it the wounded places down inside people that sought each other out, that bred a kind of love between them? "
― Sue Monk Kidd , The Secret Life of Bees
122 " If you aren't giving people something to talk about, you've become too dull. "
― Sue Monk Kidd , The Mermaid Chair
123 " What's wrong with living in a dream world? You have to wake up. "
124 " In the photograph by my bed my mother is perpetually smiling on me. I guess I have forgiven us both, although sometimes in the night my dreams will take me back to the sadness, and I have to wake up and forgive us again. "
125 " And I was struck all at once how life was out there going through its regular courses, and I was suspended, waiting, caught in a terrible crevice between living my life and not living it. "
126 " People who think dying is the is the worst thing don't know a thing about life. "
127 " I promise you, no one judges me more harshly than I do myself; I caused a brilliant wreckage. Some say I fell from grace; they’re being kind. I didn’t fall – I dove. "
128 " Loss takes up inside of everything sooner or later and eats right through it. "
129 " I’d chosen the regret I could live with best, that’s all. "
― Sue Monk Kidd , The Invention of Wings
130 " Did you know there are thirty-two names for love in one of the Eskimo languages?" August said. "And we just have this one. We are so limited, you have to use the same word. "
131 " The sorry truth is you can walk your feet to blisters, walk till kingdom-com, and you never will outpace your grief. "
132 " Regrets don't help anything. "
133 " Have you ever written a letter you knew you could never mail but you needed to write it anyway? "
134 " You can't stop your heart from loving, really -- it's like standing out there in the ocean yelling at the waves to stop. "
135 " Sometimes I didn't even feel like getting out of bed. I took to wearing my days-of-the-week panties out of order. It could be Monday and I'd have on underwear saying Thursday. I just didn't care. "
136 " Yes, here I am returning, the woman who bore herself to the bottom and back. Who wanted to swim like dolphins, leaping waves and diving. Who wanted only to belong to herself. "
137 " It was the in-between time, before day leaves and night comes, a time I’ve never been partial to because of the sadness that lingers in the space between going and coming. "
138 " My children have always existed at the deepest center of me, right there in the heart/hearth, but I struggled with the powerful demands of motherhood, chafing sometimes at the way they pulled me away from my separate life, not knowing how to balance them with my unwieldy need for solitude and creative expression. "
― Sue Monk Kidd , Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother and Daughter Journey to the Sacred Places of Greece, Turkey, and France
139 " So few people know what they're capable of. "
140 " the redness had seeped from the day and night was arranging herself around us. Cooling things down, staining and dyeing the evening purple and blue black. "