The whole problem with people is they don't know what matters and what doesn't. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
If you aren't giving people something to talk about, you've become too dull. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I think many people need, even require, a narrative version of their life. I seem to be one of them. Writing memoir… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Most people don't have any idea about all the complicated life going on inside a hive. Bees have a secret life we… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
It's always been my hope that I would write a story that would inspire and would connect with people in a way… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I wanted to know what happened when two people felt it. Would it divide the hurt in two, make it lighter to… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Stories are amazing and powerful because they can resonate with people depending on their needs and experiences and speak truths we need… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“People start out one way, and by the time life gets through with them they end up completely different.” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
From now on when people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I planned to say, Amnesiac. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, but forgiveness is a… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, but forgiveness is a… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Look, I know you meant well creating the world and all, but how could you let it get away from you like… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
The translucence that comes when life hardens into a bead of such cruel perfection you see it with the purest clarity. Everything… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
People in general would rather die than forgive. It's THAT hard. If God said in plain language. "I'm giving you a choice,… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
some things don't matter much. Like the color of a house. How big is that in the overall scheme of life? But… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
As long as people have been on this earth, the moon has been a mystery to us. Think about it. She is… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
It only meant that my natural inclination was to draw my "energy" from within instead of seeking it outside myself, plus my… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I had begun to write novels because of a fierce, self-serving impulse in my own heart. I had not considered the potential… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Why is it sports is the only thing white people see us being successful at? I don't want to play football," he… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Up until then I'd thought that white people and colored people getting along was the big aim, but after that I decided… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I marvel at how good I was before I met him, how I lived molded to the smallest space possible, my days… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Soul. The word rebounded to me, and I wondered, as I often had, what it was exactly. People talked about it all… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I've noticed that most people tend to go through life preserving their differences from others. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I have noticed that if you look carefully at people's eyes the first five seconds they look at you, the truth of… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I tried to imagine a church that did not support its country's wars as a matter of patriotic course and instead stood… — 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
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
