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
Betrayal of any kind is hard, but betrayal by one's religion is excruciating. It makes you want to rage and weep. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
It's something everybody wants-for someone to see the hurt done to them and set it down like it matters. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Sometimes you want to fall on your knees and thank God in heaven for all the poor news reporting that goes on… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Giving voice to marginalised characters is extremely important to me. I want to explore the pain of disenfranchisement, the social strata and… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
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
You think you want to know something, and then once you do, all you can think about is erasing it from your… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I want my words to open a portal through which the reader may leave the self, migrate to some other human sky… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Why is it sports is the only thing white people see us being successful at? I don't want to play football," he… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Place a beehive on my grave And let the honey soak through. When I'm dead and gone, That's what I want from… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I'll write this all down for you," I said. "I'll put it in a story." I don't know if that's what he… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
The words were unexpected, but so incisively true. So much of prayer is like that - an encounter with a truth that… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Where do you come from?"...This is the number one most-asked question in all of South Carolina. We want to know if you… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I hadn't been out to the hives before, so to start off she gave me a lesson in what she called 'bee… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I want to believe that while we may sometimes read in the misguided pursuit of preserving our separation, there is a greater… — 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
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
