Ann Kidd Taylor > Quotes

“I've tried to shield myself from life and inhabit my own small, safe corner; but there's no immunity from life.”
― Ann Kidd Taylor Sue Monk Kidd, Traveling with Pomegranates

“Whatever makes you feel alive, you ought to pay attention to it. If it makes you happy, it’s worth following.”
― Ann Kidd Taylor, The Shark Club

“The two of us praying like this to the Black Madonna Sudenly washes over me, and I'm filled with love for my mother. The best gift she has give me is the constancy of her belief. Whatever I become, she loves me. To her, I am enough.”
― ann kidd taylor, Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story

“Whatever it is I'm born to do, my fear of failing at it has almost become greater than my desire to figure out what it is.”
― Ann Kidd Taylor, Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story

“I wonder: instead of retreating and hiding, instead of pining for the way it was, what if I accept the way it is? This strikes me as both the most obvious thing in the world and the most profound.”
― Ann Kidd Taylor, Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story

“There is always a sadness in me,' I said. 'I don't want it to be there, but it is. It sleeps inside of me, and when it wakes there's nothing I can do about it. It takes over, and when that happens nothing else exists. You did that. For the last seven years I've hated you for it.”
― Ann Kidd Taylor, The Shark Club

“... I experienced his loss like an actual death. One day he existed. The next day he did not.”
― Ann Kidd Taylor, The Shark Club

“Margaret was a woman racked with regrets. A woman who could have had everything she ever wanted if she’d been able to forgive.”
― Ann Kidd Taylor, The Shark Club

“That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.”
― Ann Kidd Taylor, The Shark Club

“the Keats Room: “Love is my religion. I could die for that.”
― Ann Kidd Taylor, The Shark Club

“I swam instinctively, not thinking, floating in a half-dreamed place, and what came to me was the quote stenciled on the wall in room 202 of my grandmother’s hotel—the Keats Room: “Love is my religion. I could die for that.” The sea, its creatures, its sharks—they were my religion. I could die for that.”
― Ann Kidd Taylor, The Shark Club

“Nicholas wrestled a grocery cart free from the queue and pushed it into the produce section at Publix. “They make really good subs here,” I said.”
― Ann Kidd Taylor, The Shark Club

“Assholes that commit crimes against marine life will commit them against people, too.”
― Ann Kidd Taylor, The Shark Club

“Daniel was like a wound I carried that wouldn't heal.”
― Ann Kidd Taylor, The Shark Club

“There is always a sadness in me,” I said. “I don’t want it to be there, but it is. It sleeps inside of me, and when it wakes there’s nothing I can do about it. It takes over, and when that happens nothing else exists. You did that. For the last seven years I’ve hated you for it.”
― Ann Kidd Taylor, The Shark Club

“What I loved was the memory of him, the hope of him. I loved Daniel, but mostly a Daniel I'd created, one that didn't really exist except inside of me.”
― Ann Kidd Taylor, The Shark Club