You put his brain in a bird, the bird would fly backwards" -Secret Life of the Bees — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Stopping is a spiritual art. It is the refuge where we drink life in. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Reading was a huge part of my life as a child - we were a family of storytellers. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Every living creature on the earth is special. You want to be the one that puts an end to one of them? — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
People who think dying is the worst thing don't know a thing about life. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Gradually it occurred to me that we spend a great deal of life asleep and that dreams are little narratives, little stories.… — 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
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
And I was struck all at once how life was out there going through its regular courses, and I was suspended, waiting,… — 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
“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
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
“You know, some things don’t matter that much, Lily. Like the color of a house. How big is that in the overall… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“You don't have to put your hand on Mary's heart to get strength and consolation and rescue, and the other things we… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“August says to Lily," You know some things don't matter that much Lily. Like the colour of the house. How big is… — 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 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
“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 Copy Share Image
“But I would tell Mother none of this. Nor would I tell her that at the hour of his death, I was… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Every person on the face of the earth makes mistakes, Lily. Every last one. We're all so human. Your mother made a… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“The first week at August's was a consolation, a pure relief. The world will give you that once in a while, a… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“You know, some things don't matter that much, Lily. Like the color of a house. How big is that in the over-all… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“She said it again, "I'm tired." She wanted me to tell her it was all right, to get her spirit and go… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“The mermaids came to me finally, in the pink hours of my life. They are my consolation. For them I dove with… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“...The world was really one bee yard, and the same rules work fine in both places. Don't be afraid, as no life-loving… — 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 longed for it in that excruciating way one has of romanticizing the life she didn’t choose.” — 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
“The world will give you that once in awhile, a brief time out; the boxing bell rings and you go to your… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do." Such a notion made it virtually impossible to enjoy life.” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“Mr. Vesey, though, he didn't like any kind of talk about heaven. He said that was the coward’s way, pining for life… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
One day I will have to forgive life for ending, I tell myself. I will have to learn how to let life… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“Ee come a time when eby tub haffa res pon e won bottom, said Hepzibah, then translated: At some point in life,… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I've always been a journal-keeper. I've always tried to write about how I'm experiencing life, and my feelings and thoughts. — 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
I think books with spiritual themes simply point to the deeper mysteries of life - to what lies beyond us, to what's… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
You don't have to place your hand on Mary's heart to get strength and consolation and rescue, and all the other things… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“The bag contained a pair of white cotton gloves stained the color of age.” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
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 Image
“Readiness for dying arrives by attending the smallest moment and finding the eternal inside of it.” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“There's no pain on earth that doesn't require a benevolent witness.” — sue monk kidd Copy Share Image
