Sue Monk Kidd Quotes - Page 9

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• We must err , do so on the side of audacity

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  Audacity, Sides

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• When had my fear of broken plates gotten so grandiose? My desire for extravagant moments so small?

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  Broken, Desire, Moments

  Sue Monk Kidd (2006). “The Mermaid Chair”, p.148, Penguin

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• Knowing can be a curse on a person's life. I'd traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, and I didn't know which one was heavier.

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  Lying, Knowing, Curse

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.255, Penguin

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• Sometimes you want to fall on your knees and thank God in heaven for all the poor news reporting that goes on in the world.

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  Fall, Heaven, Thank God

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.66, Penguin

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• Actually, you can be bad at something...but if you love doing it, that will be enough. - August Boatwright

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  August, Enough, Ifs

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• We have to acknowledge sometimes that this moment is enough. This place is enough. I am enough.

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  Sometimes, Moments, Enough

  "Sue Monk Kidd Explains One Of Life’s Greatest Paradoxes", www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2014.

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• 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?

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  People, Kind, Wonder

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.184, Penguin

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• 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.

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  Heart, Hands, Needs

  Sue Monk Kidd (2002). “The Secret Life of Bees”, Viking Press

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• Just to be is holy, just to live is a gift.

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  Holy

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• 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.

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  Black, Shame, Glory

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.71, Penguin

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• Drifting off to sleep, I thought about her. How nobody is perfect. How you just have to close your eyes and breathe out and let the puzzle of the human heart be what it is.

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  Heart, Sleep, Eye

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.285, Penguin

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• 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.

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  Ideas, Creating, People

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.171, Penguin

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• This is the autumn of wonders, yet every day, every single day, I go back to that burned afternoon in August when T. Ray left. I go back to that one moment when I stood in the driveway with small rocks and clumps of dirt around my feet and looked back at the porch. And there they were. All these mothers. I have more mothers than any eight girls off the street. They are the moons shining over me.

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  Girl, Mother, Autumn

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• 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.

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  Crush, Children, Giving Up

  Barbara Taylor Bradford, Sue Monk Kidd (2001). “Of love and life: three novels selected and condensed by Reader's Digest”

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• A lot of time you write out of some unconscious place. I try to trust what is coming and where it wants to take me.

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  Writing, Trying, Want

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• The world depends upon the small beating in your heart.

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  Heart, World, Depends

  Sue Monk Kidd (2014). “The Invention of Wings: A Novel (Original Publisher's Edition-No Annotations)”, p.226, Penguin

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• 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.

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  Song, Lost Love, Careful

  FaceBook post by Sue Monk Kidd from Feb 02, 2014

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• What matters is giving over to what you love.

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  What Matters, Giving, Matter

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• You gotta imagine what's never been.

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  Bees, Imagine, Secret Life

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.121, Penguin

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• I'd forgotten how that sort of craving felt, how it rose suddenly and loudly from the pit of my stomach like a flock of startle birds, then floated back down in the slow, beguiling way of feathers.

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  Rose, Bird, Pits

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

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  Wanted, Knows

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.8, Penguin

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• I said, "If I was a Negro girl-" He placed his fingers across my lips so I tasted his saltiness. "We can't think of changing our skin," he said. "Change the world-that's how we gotta think."

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  Girl, Thinking, Skins

  Sue Monk Kidd (2002). “The Secret Life of Bees”, Viking Press

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