Sue Monk Kidd: Quotes about life

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“We write to taste life twice," Anais Nin wrote, "in the moment and in retrospection.”

Source: Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story

“The world will give you that once in awhile, a brief timeout; the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner, where somebody dabs mercy on your beat-up life.”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees

“All my life I've thought I needed someone to complete me, now I know I need to belong to myself.”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Mermaid Chair

Source: The Mermaid Chair

“There is nothing perfect. There is only life.”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees (2002)

“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.”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees

“I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind the fabric of our poor, browbeat days, shining brightly, and we don't even know it.”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees

“My mother's life was way too heavy for me.”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees

“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.”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees (2002)

“People who think dying is the worst thing don't know a thing about life.”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees

Variant: Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life.
Source: The Secret Life of Bees (2002)

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

Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees

“You know, some things don't matter that much… Like the color of a house. How big is that in the overall scheme of life? But lifting a person's heart - now, matters.”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees

“You don't have to place your hand on Mary's heart to get strength and consolation and rescue, and all the other things we need to get through life. You can place it right here on your own heart. Your own heart.”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees