Sue Monk Kidd: Trending quotes (page 2)

“You gotta imagine what's never been.”

“The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.”

“It's your time to live, don't mess it up.”

“I can't think of anything I'd rather have more than somebody lovin' me.”

“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.”

“It shocks me how I wish for… what is lost and cannot come back.”

“History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until we are able to make another’s pain in the heart our own.”

“You think you want to know something, and then once you do, all you can think about is erasing it from your mind.”

“I didn't know then what I wanted, but the ache for it was palpable.”

“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.”

“Actually, you can be bad at something… but if you love doing it, that will be enough. - August Boatwright”

“Nothing is fair in this world. You might as well get that straight right now”

“To remain silent in the face of evil is itself a form of evil.”

“It was the first time I'd ever said the words to another person, and the sound of them broke open my heart.”

“It's something everybody wants-for someone to see the hurt done to them and set it down like it matters.”

“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”

“I wanted to know what happened when two people felt it. Would it divide the hurt in two, make it lighter to bear, the way feeling someone's joy seemed to double it?”

“I know you've run away - everybody gets the urge to do that some time - but sooner or later you'll want to go home.”

“You can tell which girls lack mothers by the look of their hair…”