“June always said that most people bit off more than they could chew, but August chewed more than she bit off.” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“There is nothing perfect,' August said from the doorway. 'There is only life.” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Actually, you can be bad at something...but if you love doing it, that will be enough. - August Boatwright — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“One thing is beautiful beyond my words to say it: August holding you.” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Did you know there are thirty-two names for love in one of the Eskimo languages?" August said. "And we just have this… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I'd heard August say more than once, "If you need something from somebody, always give that person a way to hand it… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“The first week at August's was a consolation, a pure relief. The world will give you that once in a while, a… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Every person on the face of the earth makes mistakes, Lily. Every last one. We're all so human. Your mother made a… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“That's because May takes in things differently than the rest of us do." August reached over and laid her hand on my… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“August: You know, somethings don't matter that much...like the color of a house...But lifting a person's heart--now that matters. The whole problem… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
This is the autumn of wonders, yet every day, every single day, I go back to that burned afternoon in August when… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
In recent years my understanding of God had evolved into increasingly remote abstractions. I'd come to think of God in terms like Divine Reality,… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share
we need not avoid our active lives, but simply bring to them a new vision and shift of gravity. for in the center we… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share
“The mermaids came to me finally, in the pink hours of my life. They are my consolation. For them I dove with arms outstretched,… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share
“The bag contained a pair of white cotton gloves stained the color of age.” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share
I eventually found that the soul is more than an immortal commodity to win and save. It is the repository of the inner divine,… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share
“Readiness for dying arrives by attending the smallest moment and finding the eternal inside of it.” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share
“I sat at her desk and turned one page after another, staring at what looked like bits and pieces of black lace laid cross… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share
The translucence that comes when life hardens into a bead of such cruel perfection you see it with the purest clarity. Everything suddenly there--life… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share
“afflicted with the worst female curse on earth, the need to mold myself to expectations.” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share
“Her forbidden bath all those months ago still hung leaden between us, though Handful didn't seem the least bit ashamed by my discovery of… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share
“Why should God’s perfection be based on having an unchanging nature?” I asked. “Isn’t flexibility more perfect than stasis?” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share
