“We are so limited, you have to use the same word for loving Rosaleen as you do for loving Coke with peanuts. Isn't that a shame we don't have many more ways to say it?”Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of BeesSource: The Secret Life of Bees
“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 BeesSource: The Secret Life of Bees
“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.”Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of BeesSource: The Secret Life of Bees
“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.”Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of BeesSource: The Secret Life of Bees (2002)
“Actually, you can be bad at something… but if you love doing it, that will be enough. - August Boatwright”Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of BeesSource: The Secret Life of Bees
“women made the best beekeepers 'cause they have a special ability built into them to love creatures that sting.”Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of BeesSource: The Secret Life of Bees
“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 book The Secret Life of BeesSource: The Secret Life of Bees
“You can't stop your heart from loving, really -- it's like standing out there in the ocean yelling at the waves to stop.”Sue Monk Kidd book The Mermaid ChairSource: The Mermaid Chair
“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.”Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of BeesSource: The Secret Life of Bees
“I felt amazed at the choosing one had to do, over and over a million times daily--choosing love, then choosing it again… how loving and being in love could be so different.”Sue Monk Kidd book The Mermaid ChairSource: The Mermaid Chair
“I wished she'd been smart enough, or loving enough, to realize everybody has burdens that crush them, only they don't give up their children.”Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of BeesSource: The Secret Life of Bees
“That's what I told myself five hundred times: impossibility. I can tell you this much: the word is a great big log thrown on the fires of love. ~Page 133.”Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of BeesSource: The Secret Life of Bees
“Standing there, I loved myself and I hated myself. That's what the black Mary did to me, made me feel my glory and my shame at the same time.”Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of BeesSource: The Secret Life of Bees