Sue Monk Kidd: Trending quotes (page 4)

“I believe in the goodness of imagination.”

“People can start out one way, and by the time life gets through with them they end up completely different.”

“Have you ever written a letter you knew you could never mail but you needed to write it anyway?”

“We 're all yearning for a wedge of sky, aren 't we? I suspect God plants these yearnings in us so we'll at least try and change the course of things. We must try, that's all" - Lucretia Mott in The Invention of Wings
― Sue Monk Kidd”

“Regrets don't help anything.”

“This is what I know about myself. She was all I wanted. And I took her away.”

“The sorry truth is you can walk your feet to blisters, walk till kingdom-com, and you never will outpace your grief.”

“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.”

“You can't stop your heart from loving, really -- it's like standing out there in the ocean yelling at the waves to stop.”

“So few people know what they're capable of.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I’d chosen the regret I could live with best, that’s all.”

“When mauma saw my raw eyes, she said, “Ain’t nobody can write down in a book what you worth.”

“We walked along the river with the words streaming behind us like ribbons in the night.”

“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.”

“The whole problem with people is they don't know what matters and what doesn't.”

“I'll write this all down for you," I said. "I'll put it in a story." I don't know if that's what he wanted to ask me, but it's something everybody wants--for someone to see the hurt done to them and set it down like it matters.”

“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.”