Sue Monk KiddThat's what I told myself five hundred times: impossibility. I can tell you this much: the word is a great big log thrown on the fires of love. ~Page 133. ✨ FaceBook post by… ▶373LoveReadingTime
Sue Monk KiddAfter you get stung, you can't get unstung no matter how much you whine about it. ✨ FaceBook post bySue Monk Kidd from Dec 16, 2013373Reading
Sue Monk KiddHow often do we do that, he wondered--look at someone and fail to see what's really there? ✨ Sue Monk Kidd (2006). The Mermaid Chair, p.293, Penguin351Humanity
Sue Monk KiddI didn't know what to think, but what I felt was magnetic and so big it ached like the moon had entered my chest and filled it up. The only think I could compare it to was the fee… ▶341LifeReadingThought
Sue Monk KiddThe most significant gifts are the ones most easily overlooked. Small, everyday blessings: woods, health, music, laughter, memories, books, family, friends, second chances, warm f… ▶341HumorReading
Sue Monk KiddPeople, in general, would rather die than forgive. It's that hard. ✨ Sue Monk Kidd (2003). The Secret Life of Bees, p.277, Penguin341DeathHumanityLife
Sue Monk KiddActually, you can be bad at something...but if you love doing it, that will be enough. - August Boatwright341Love
Sue Monk KiddGazing into the mirror, I saw myself as I was-a black silhouette in the room, a woman whose darkness had completely leaked through. ✨ Sue Monk Kidd (2006). The Mermaid Chair… ▶374Truth
Sue Monk KiddWhen you can't go forward, and you can't go backward, and you can't stay where you are without killing off something deep and vital in yourself, you are on the edge of creation. <… ▶374Reading
Sue Monk KiddI felt a trembling along my skin, a treaveling current that moved up my spine, down my arms, pulsing out from my fingertips. I was practically radiating. The body knows things a l… ▶364LifeThoughtTime
Sue Monk KiddI wondered what it was like to be inside her, just a curl of flesh swimming in the darkness, the quiet things that had passed between us.375Humor
Sue Monk KiddThere's release in knowing the truth no matter how anguishing it is. You come finally to the irreducible thing, and there's nothing left to do but pick it up and hold it. Then, at… ▶376Truth
Sue Monk KiddFinally, I began to write about becoming an older woman and the trepidation it stirred. The small, telling betrayals of my body. The stalled, eerie stillness in my writing, accomp… ▶321LifePhilosophy
Sue Monk KiddAt night I would lie in bed and watch the show, how bees squeezed through the cracks of my bedroom wall and flew circles around the room, making that propeller sound, a high-pitch… ▶332LifeLoveReading
Sue Monk KiddThe whole problem with people is they don't know what matters and what doesn't. ✨ Sue Monk Kidd (2003). The Secret Life of Bees, p.147, Penguin321HumanityLife
Sue Monk KiddThe only way I have ever understood, broken free, emerged, healed, forgiven, flourished, and grown powerful is by asking the hardest questions and then living into the answers thr… ▶354LifePoliticsTruth
Sue Monk KiddA lot of time you write out of some unconscious place. I try to trust what is coming and where it wants to take me.322Time
Sue Monk Kiddthe feminine journey is a story unfolding, and its epiphanies come through real things, through tangibles like walking sticks and dreams and deer antlers--all of which we might mi… ▶377Time
Sue Monk KiddThe question occurred to me: Well, if that's so, if the Divine is ultimately formless and genderless, what's the big deal? Why all this bother? The bother is because we have no ot… ▶366Sadness
Sue Monk KiddIn a weird way I must have loved my little collection of hurts and wounds. They provided me with some real nice sympathy, with the feeling I was exceptional... What a special case… ▶311LifeLoveReading
Sue Monk KiddMy children have always existed at the deepest center of me, right there in the heart/hearth, but I struggled with the powerful demands of motherhood, chafing sometimes at the way… ▶377LifeLovePolitics
Sue Monk KiddYou have to know when to prod and when to be quiet, when to let things take their course. ✨ Sue Monk Kidd (2002). The Secret Life of Bees, Viking Press356Life
Sue Monk KiddI learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process. It's not something that happens… ▶367DeathHumanityLove
Sue Monk KiddIt's your time to live, don't mess it up. ✨ Sue Monk Kidd (2003). The Secret Life of Bees, p.211, Penguin378LifeTime
Sue Monk KiddLoss takes up inside of everything sooner or later and eats right through it. ✨ Sue Monk Kidd (2003). The Secret Life of Bees, p.55, Penguin378Life
Sue Monk KiddHave you ever written a letter you knew you could never mail but you needed to write it anyway? ✨ Sue Monk Kidd (2003). The Secret Life of Bees, p.161, Penguin367Life
Sue Monk KiddI don't remember what they said, only the fury of their words, how the air turned raw and full of welts. Later it would remind me of birds trapped inside a closed room, flinging t… ▶312LifeThought
Sue Monk KiddI missed Rosaleen's snoring the way you'd miss the sound of the ocean waves after you've gotten used to sleeping with them. I didn't realize how it had comforted me. Quiteness has… ▶345Life
Sue Monk KiddI worried so much about how I looked and whether I was doing things right, I felt half the time I was impersonating a girl instead of really being one. ✨ FaceBook post bySue… ▶291ReadingTime
Sue Monk KiddHistory is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until we are able to make another's pain in the heart our own. ✨ Sue Monk Kid… ▶346LoveSadnessTruth
