A lot of time you write out of some unconscious place. I try to trust what is coming and where it wants… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
We have to acknowledge sometimes that this moment is enough. This place is enough. I am enough. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“You know, Lily, people can start out one way, and by the time life gets through with them they end up completely… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
When had my fear of broken plates gotten so grandiose? My desire for extravagant moments so small? — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“escape her own father as well. Seizing the moment, she springs Rosaleen from jail, and the two set out across South” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“There is a fullness of time for things. You have to know when to prod and when to be quiet. When to… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them. I was wondering what my body knew that… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I could even feel how perishable all my moments really were, how all my life they had come to me begging to… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“it washed over me for the first time in my life just how much importance the world had ascribed to skin pigment,… — 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
Due to the sweeping time frame and the voices moving back and forth, the outline for 'The Invention of Wings' was the… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“The ultimate authority of my life is not the Bible; it is not confined between the covers of a book. It is… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
For me, writing a novel goes on for years, and the solitude goes on, too. It tends to swallow me at times.… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I read usually in the morning, in my kitchen at breakfast - a short reading time, usually poetry. I read in bed… — 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
“There was a time in Africa the people could fly. Mauma told me this one night when I was ten years old.… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Probably one or two moments in your whole life you will hear a dark whispering spirit, a voice coming from the center… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
The symbol of Goddess gives us permission. She teaches us to embrace the holiness of every natural, ordinary, sensual dying moment. Patriarchy… — 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
“Solitude is a time for "God and God alone." Who knows what can happpen when we focus only on God. In solitude,… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“gon be hard from here on, Handful. Since that day a year past, I’d got myself a friend in Miss Sarah and… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“It was the time of year when migrating crows wheeled across the sky, thunderous flocks that moved like a single veil, and… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“My speech impediment had been absent for some time now—four months and six days. I’d almost imagined myself cured. So when Mother… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“Pure in heart means to be sing-hearted... to will one thing- God. All (Jesus)'s moments flowed from His single-heartedness, from His intimacy… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“Readiness for dying arrives by attending the smallest moment and finding the eternal inside of it.” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“I now understand that writing fiction was a seed planted in my soul, though I would not be ready to grow that… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I know you've run away - everybody gets the urge to do that some time - but sooner or later you'll want… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
It was the first time I'd ever said the words to another person, and the sound of them broke open my heart. — 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
“I felt half the time I was impersonating a girl instead of really being one.” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“the night fell over me, and for a moment I lost my boundaries, feeling like the sky was my own skin” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“Every time I shot back, What's wrong with living in a dream world? And she'd say, You have to wake up. ” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“For a moment I felt the quiet hungering thing that comes inside when you return to the pale of your origins, and… — 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
It was the in-between time, before day leaves and night comes, a time I’ve never been partial to because of the sadness… — 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
