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I tried to imagine a church that did not support its country's wars as a matter of patriotic course and instead stood against the devastation and suffering they caused in people's lives." (from 'The Dance of the Dissident Daughter'.)

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Daughter, Country, War

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When he spoke, the roughness was gone from his voice. "I could tell you I did it. That's what you wanna hear. I could tell you she did it to herself, but both ways I'd be lying. It was you who did it, Lily. You didn't mean it, but it was you.

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Lying, Mean, Voice

Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.299, Penguin

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Place a beehive on my grave And let the honey soak through. When I'm dead and gone, That's what I want from you. The streets of heaven are gold and sunny, But I'll stick with my plot and a pot of honey. Place a beehive on my grave And let the honey soak through.

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Death, Heaven, Gold

FaceBook post by Sue Monk Kidd from Apr 24, 2014

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I think many people need, even require, a narrative version of their life. I seem to be one of them. Writing memoir is, in some ways, a work of wholeness.

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Writing, Thinking, People

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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.

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Fire, Hundred, Bigs

FaceBook post by Sue Monk Kidd from Feb 23, 2014

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So I taught Sunday school and brought dishes to all manner of potlucks and tried to adjust the things I heard from the pulpit to my increasingly incongruent faith.

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School, Sunday, Taught

Sue Monk Kidd (2016). “The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine”, p.19, Harper Collins

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It only meant that my natural inclination was to draw my "energy" from within instead of seeking it outside myself, plus my mom was an introvcert, and so were a lot of normal people. The problem was I was shy on top of that. And we all know how the world loves a shy introvert.

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Mom, World Love, People

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I felt someone should personally thank every rock out there for the human misery it had absorbed. We should kiss them one by one & say, we are sorry, but something strong & lasting had to do this for May, & you are the chosen ones. God bless your rock hearts.

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Strong, Sorry, Heart

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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.

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Here I Am, Swim, Dolphins

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The time to assert one's right is when it's denied!

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Denied

Sue Monk Kidd (2014). “The Invention of Wings: A Novel (Original Publisher's Edition-No Annotations)”, p.255, Penguin

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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.

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Sadness, Night, Space

Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.113, Penguin

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Nobody should go through life without falling in love.

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Falling In Love, Fall, Should

Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.146, Penguin

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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.

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Hurt, Writing, Stories

Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.185, Penguin

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Most people don't have any idea about all the complicated life going on inside a hive. Bees have a secret life we don't know anything about.

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Ideas, People, Secret

Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.148, Penguin

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Novels attempt to render human experience; that's really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character.

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Character, Empathy, Novel

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Where had I been that I didn't know about imaginary friends? I could see the point of it. How a lost part of yourself steps out and remind you who you could be with a little work.

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Littles, Steps, Lost

Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.246, Penguin

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One day I will have to forgive life for ending, I tell myself. I will have to learn how to let life be life with its unbearable finality ... just be what it is.

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Life, Forgiving, One Day

Sue Monk Kidd, Ann Kidd Taylor (2009). “Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother-daughter Story”, Viking Press

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It's always been my hope that I would write a story that would inspire and would connect with people in a way that would touch hearts.

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Writing, Heart, People

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I've always been a journal-keeper. I've always tried to write about how I'm experiencing life, and my feelings and thoughts.

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Writing, Feelings, Keepers

"Kidd, Taylor take personal journey with Pomegranates". Interview with Maggie Galehouse, www.chron.com. September 13, 2009.

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

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Flying, Soul, Sound

Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.213, Penguin

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I wondered what it was like to be inside her, just a curl of flesh swimming in the darkness, the quiet things that had passed between us.

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Swimming, Darkness, Curls

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Up until then I'd thought that white people and colored people getting along was the big aim, but after that I decided everybody being colorless together was a better plan. I thought of that policeman, Eddie Hazelwurst, saying I'd lowered myself to be in this house of colored women, and for the very life of me I couldn't understand how it had turned out this way, how colored women had become the lowest ones on the totem pole. You only had to look at them to see how special they were, like hidden royalty among us. Eddie Hazelwurst. What a shitbucket.

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White, People, House

Sue Monk Kidd (2011). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.128, Hachette UK

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When compassion wakes up in us, we find ourselves more willing to become vulnerable, to take the risk of entering the pain of others.

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Pain, Compassion, Risk

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As an adolescent, I went to charm school, where I learned to pour tea and relate to boys, which, as I recall, meant giving them the pickle jar to unscrew, whether it was too hard for me or not.

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School, Boys, Giving

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The only wrong thing, perhaps, is permanently hesitating on the verge of courage.

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Wrong Things, Verge

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