Sue Monk Kidd citations

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“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…”

“We can't think of changing our skin color. Change the world - that's how we gotta think.”

“Honeybees depend not only on physical contact with the colony, but also require it's social companionship and support. Isolate a honeybee from her sisters and she will soon die.”

“People in general would rather die than forgive. It'shard. If God said in plain language. "I'm giving you a choice, forgive or die," a lot of people would go ahead and order their coffin.”

“It was the oldest sound there was. Souls flying away.”

“women made the best beekeepers 'cause they have a special ability built into them to love creatures that sting.”

“Now and then sprays of rain flew over and misted our faces. Every time I refused to wipe away the wetness. It made the world seem so alive to me. I couldn't help but envy the way a good storm got everyone's attention.”

“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?”

“My body might be a slave, but not my mind. For you, it's the other way round.”

“There's no pain on earth that doesn't crave a benevolent witness.”

“What's wrong with living in a dream world? You have to wake up.”

“There's release in knowing the truth no matter how anguishing it is. You come finally to the irreducible thing, and there's nothing left to do but pick it up and hold it. Then, at last, you can enter the severe mercy of acceptance.”

“If you aren't giving people something to talk about, you've become too dull.”

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

“you got to figure out which end of the needle you’re gon be, the one that’s fastened to the thread or the end that pierces the cloth.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Look, I know you meant well creating the world and all, but how could you let it get away from you like this? How come you couldn't stick with your original idea of paradise? People's lives were a mess.”

“I'm tired of carrying around the weight of the world. I'm just going to lay it down now. It's my time to die, and it's your time to live. Don't mess it up.”