“When I looked up through the web of trees, the night sky fell over me, and for a moment, I lost my… — 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
“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
“Angelina, I think of you as my friend, the dearest of friends, and it tortures me to go against you, but now… — 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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
