Sue Monk Kidd

“The bees came the summer of 1964”

— Sue Monk Kidd

“When a bee flies, a soul will rise,”

— Sue Monk Kidd

You gotta imagine what's never been.

— Sue Monk Kidd

“Heavier or not, the truth is yours now.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

“Indeed, love is everything.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

“[Let's] put feet to our prayers.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

It shocks me how I wish for...what is lost and cannot come back.

— Sue Monk Kidd

“I’d chosen the regret I could live with best, that’s all.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

“I'm tired of carrying around the weight of the world.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

After you get stung, you can't get unstung no matter how much you whine about it.

— Sue Monk Kidd

“It never occurred to her their gaiety wasn’t contentment, but survival.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

Sometimes, in order to say yes to what matters most, I must say no to good things.

— Sue Monk Kidd

“People who think dying is the is the worst thing don't know a thing about life.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

I didn't know then what I wanted, but the ache for it was palpable.

— Sue Monk Kidd

“Before October, I would have denied it vehemently, as we are apt to do when something true is unconscious to us.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

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

“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

He'd gone to church for forty years and was only getting worse. It seemed like this should tell God something.

— Sue Monk Kidd

When had my fear of broken plates gotten so grandiose? My desire for extravagant moments so small?

— Sue Monk Kidd

“She liked to tell everyone that women make the best beekeepers, 'cause they have a special ability built into them to love…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“I thought of the girl who bathed in a copper tub. I thought of the woman who stole a bullet mold. I…

— Sue Monk Kidd

Writing in the voice of an American slave felt like I was biting off something very large.

— Sue Monk Kidd

A spiritual pilgrim needs to discern when his or her life is stunted in an old field and find the courage and…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“. . . women internalize the feminine wound or feminine inferiority so deeply, there's little or no female authority and esteem to…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“All my life, in nameless, indeterminate ways, I'd tried to complete my life with someone else--first my father, then Hugh, even Whit,…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“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

I vividly remember the summer of 1964 with its voter registration drives, boiling racial tensions, and the erupting awareness of the cruelty…

— Sue Monk Kidd

What has happened to our ability to dwell in the unknowing, to live inside a question and coexist with the tensions of…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“Up until then I'd thought that white people and colored people getting alone was the big aim, but after that I decided…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“We 're all yearning for a wedge of sky, aren 't we? I suspect Zgod plants these yearlings in us so we'll…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“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

“Sunk in the mud, it took all my strength to flip it over. I lifted out the oar and inspected the bottom…

— Sue Monk Kidd

Back in the autumn I had awakened to a growing darkness and cacophony, as if something in the depths were crying out.…

— Sue Monk Kidd

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

God is at the tip of our scalpels, our screwdrivers, our computer terminals, our dust rags, our vacuum cleaners, our pencils and…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“Only the past week, Father had orchestrated a discussion between Thomas and me on the topic of exotic fossilized creatures. Thomas argued…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“Lily Owens: If your favorite color is blue, why did you paint the house pink? August Boatwright: [chuckles] That was May's doing.…

— Sue Monk Kidd

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

Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life.

— Sue Monk Kidd

You are my everlasting home. Don't you ever be afraid. I am enough. We are enough.

— Sue Monk Kidd