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 Copy Share Image
I wanted to know what happened when two people felt it. Would it divide the hurt in two, make it lighter to… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
It's always been my hope that I would write a story that would inspire and would connect with people in a way… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
We are so limited, you have to use the same word for loving Rosaleen as you do for loving Coke with peanuts.… — 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'm a big believer in the way ritual can put us in connection with our spirituality. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I'm always captivated by stories of women who find a way to be daring - misbehaving women. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
We have to learn not to feel guilty about letting our imagination browse around, and you know, in writing fiction particularly. But… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I'd heard August say more than once, "If you need something from somebody, always give that person a way to hand it… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I missed Rosaleen's snoring the way you'd miss the sound of the ocean waves after you've gotten used to sleeping with them.… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
When he spoke, the roughness was gone from his voice. "I could tell you I did it. That's what you wanna hear.… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
all that paddling around in the alphabet soup of one's childhood, scooping up letters, hoping to arrange them into enlightening sentences that… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I knew from reading about Sarah Grimke that she'd been given a handmaid to be her personal slave and that her name… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I don't hold to the idea that God causes suffering and crisis. I just know that those things come along and God… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Now and then sprays of rain flew over and misted our faces. Every time I refused to wipe away the wetness. It… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
The monk at St. Meinrad took his hands and placed them on my shoulders, peered straight into my eyes and said, ‘I… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I didn't know what to think, but what I felt was magnetic and so big it ached like the moon had entered… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
The only way I have ever understood, broken free, emerged, healed, forgiven, flourished, and grown powerful is by asking the hardest questions… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Up until then I'd thought that white people and colored people getting along was the big aim, but after that I decided… — 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
In the early 1800s, religion was often used as a way to keep slavery in place. Slaves were forced to attend the… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
You create a path of your own by looking within yourself and listening to your soul, cultivating your own ways of experiencing… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
In a way, humans are not made of skin and bones as such, as we're made of stories. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
My children have always existed at the deepest center of me, right there in the heart/hearth, but I struggled with the powerful… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I'd forgotten how that sort of craving felt, how it rose suddenly and loudly from the pit of my stomach like a… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I found that I could not climb my way up to God in a blaze of doing and performing. Rather, I had… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
In a weird way I must have loved my little collection of hurts and wounds. They provided me with some real nice… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
The question occurred to me: Well, if that's so, if the Divine is ultimately formless and genderless, what's the big deal? Why… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
At night I would lie in bed and watch the show, how bees squeezed through the cracks of my bedroom wall and… — 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
