I have an affinity for writing in the first person. I love the intimacy of being dropped inside the character. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“Was it the wounded places down inside people that sought each other out, that bred a kind of love between them?” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Something deep in all of us yearns for God's beauty, and we can find it no matter where we are. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“Above all, send the bees love. Every little thing wants to be loved.” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“...impossibility. I can tell you this much: the word is a great big log thrown on the fires of love.” — 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
That's what I told myself five hundred times: impossibility. I can tell you this much: the word is a great big log… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“I didn't know for sure whether Miss Sarah's feelings came from love or guilt. I didn't know whether mine came from love… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“There are things without explanation, moments when life will become arranged in such odd ways that you imagine a whole vocabulary of… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
On weekends, I sit in a lounge chair on my balcony. I love to be outside when the weather's right. I can… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I felt amazed at the choosing one had to do, over and over a million times daily--choosing love, then choosing it again...how… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“He will use the word "love", and the world will not stop spinning but go right on in its courses, like the… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I feel like we need to be aware of the ways we use and misuse religious dogma: whether it takes us deeper… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
You forgive what you can, when you can. That's all you can do.To forgive does not mean overlooking the offense and pretending… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“Did you know there are 32 names for love in one of the Eskimo language? And we just have this one. We… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“Being in love and getting married, now, that's two different things. I was in love once, of course I was. Nobody should… — sue monk kidd Copy Share Image
“I marveled at how mixed up people got when it came to love. I myself, for instance. It seemed like I was… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
we need not avoid our active lives, but simply bring to them a new vision and shift of gravity. for in the… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“People say love gets fouled by a difference big as ours. I didn’t know for sure whether Miss Sarah’s feelings came from… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
A moment of grace. There rose up within me a profound sense of being loved. I felt "gathered together" and encircled by… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“She laid the book down and came where I was standing by the chimney place and put her arms round me. It… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“You have to find a mother inside yourself. We all do. Even if we already have a mother, we still have to… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
And when you get down to it, Lily, that is the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
You can't stop your heart from loving, really -- it's like standing out there in the ocean yelling at the waves to… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I watched him, filled with tenderness and ache, wondering what it was that connected us. Was it the wounded places down inside… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Grandmotherhood initiated me into a world of play, where all things became fresh, alive, and honest again through my grandchildren's eyes. Mostly,… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“That's what I told myself five hundred times: impossibility. I can tell you this much: the world is a great big log… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“As I descended the stairs, the years between us seemed accumulated everywhere, filling the house, and it seemed strange to me, how… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“I’d been wandering about in the enchantments of romance, afflicted with the worst female curse on earth, the need to mold myself… — 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
