“The secret of a good lie is don't overly explain, and throw in one good detail.” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“The sorry truth is you can walk your feet to blisters, walk till kingdom-come,” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Once you know the truth, you can’t ever go back and pick up your suitcase of lies. Heavier or not, the truth… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Knowing can be a curse on a person's life. I'd traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, and… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“You think there’s no detriment in a slave learning to read? There are sad truths in our world, and one is that… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“The sorry truth is you can walk your feet to blisters, walk till kingdom-come, and you never will outpace your grief.” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Whatever else you do, listen to your Deepest Self. Love Her and be true to Her, speak Her truth, always. — 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
She didn't even know how dangerous the truth could be, all the tiny, shattering seeds it carried. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“Well, that’s not what the Bible preaches. It says if you know the truth, it’ll set you free.” — 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 can't explain that, except to say there's release in knowing the truth no matter how anguishing it is. You come finally… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
There's a gap somehow between empathy and activism. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke of 'soul force' - something that emanates… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“Which one took the most strength to carry around? It was a ridiculous question, though, because once you know the truth, you… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains. That’s what… — 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
There's release in knowing the truth no matter how anguishing it is. You come finally to the irreducible thing, and there's nothing… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“I want to tell you I'm strong and resolute, but in truth, I feel afraid and alone and uncertain. I feel as… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Knowing can be a curse on a person's life. I'd traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, and… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“The truth is, in order to heal we need to tell our stories and have them witnessed...The story itself becomes a vessel… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“A woman in Deep Sleep is one who goes about in an unconscious state. She seems unaware or unfazed by the truth… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“The truth may set you free, but first it will shatter the safe, sweet way you live.” — 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
