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“Visual beauty is only one form of beauty.”
― Abbie Emmons, 100 Days of Sunlight

“I am drowning again. But this time I don’t need help. I don’t need a rescue. Because I am drowning in perfect beauty. I am drowning in reckless joy. I’ve fallen out of the tree. And now, I fly.”
― Abbie Emmons, 100 Days of Sunlight

“The hard thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same.”
― Abbie Emmons, 100 Days of Sunlight

“Letting go feels like giving up. But if you don’t let go, you’ll drown. I know the feeling. And it sucks. But Life sucks sometimes. And yeah, it gets back up. But you don’t have to stay on your knees.”
― Abbie Emmons, 100 Days of Sunlight

“I know nothing. I feel everything.”
― Abbie Emmons, 100 Days of Sunlight

“I’ve always been able to write much better than I can talk.”
― Abbie Emmons, 100 Days of Sunlight

“But the unknown is something to look forward to.”
― Abbie Emmons, 100 Days of Sunlight

“It’s similar to the feeling of coming home after a long time away—everything is familiar, but different. Nothing has changed, yet everything seems new.”
― Abbie Emmons, 100 Days of Sunlight

“What if the cloak wasn't magic at all, like the feather in that story Granny used to tell me about the elephant with the big ears?”
― Wendy Toliver, Red's Untold Tale

“Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“Knowing can be a curse on a person's life. I'd traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, and I didn't know which one was heavier. Which one took the most strength to carry around? It was a ridiculous question, though, because once you know the truth, you can't ever go back and pick up your suitcase of lies. Heavier or not, the truth is yours now.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“It's your time to live, don't mess it up.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“To remain silent in the face of evil is itself a form of evil.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Invention of Wings

“You gotta imagine what's never been.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“Sunset is the saddest light there is.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“You can go other places, all right - you can live on the other side of the world, but you can't ever leave home”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Mermaid Chair

“All my life I've thought I needed someone to complete me, now I know I need to belong to myself.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Mermaid Chair

“And when you get down to it, Lily, that is the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to love but to persist in love.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“There is nothing perfect...only life.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“When it's time to die, go ahead and die, and when it's time to live, live. Don't sort-of-maybe live, but live like you're going all out, like you're not afraid.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“Lucanos nodded [...] 'She's the girl who sees with her heart.'
Aranae rolled all eight of her eyes. She chittered again, in a scolding tone this time. When she finished, she crossed two of her legs and gave Belle a dirty look.
Belle shrank under her disapproving glare, 'What did she say?' she asked timidly.
'She said your heart needs glasses.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book

“Belle's tears spilled over. "Even if I could get out of this place, I wouldn't know where to go," she sobbed. "Where is it, Lucanos? Where is my home?"
The beetle sighed. He touched the tip of one leg to the place over Belle's heart. "It's here, foolish girl," he said. "Home is all the people, all the places, and all the things that you love. You carry it wherever you go. Don't you know that?”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book

“We all make mistakes," Lucanos said. "The danger lies in letting those mistakes make us."
"Make us what?" asked Belle.
"Make us believe we can't put things right. Make us think there's no hope. Make us give up," the beetle said, giving Belle a very direct look.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book

“Isn't that what a good story does? It pulls you in and never lets you go.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book

“Keep being the author of your own story. Never let anyone else write it for you again.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book

“Life can be so difficult, and stories help us escape those difficulties. It’s all right to lose yourself in one”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book

“Mirrors only show us what we are. Books show us what we can be.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book

“Love isn't idiotic. It's hard and messy, confusing and wonderful. But to love and be loved... that's all that matters.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book

“Belle hesitated. "What is this place?" she asked.
"A bit of magic, like all good books," the man replied. "An escape. A place where you can leave cares and worries behind." He smiled. "At least for a chapter or two.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book