Sue Monk Kidd Quotes

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Sue Monk Kidd
“There's nothing like a song about lost love to remind you how everything precious can slip through the hinges where you've hung it so careful.”
Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

Sue Monk Kidd
“This is what I know about myself. She was all I wanted. And I took her away.”
Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

Sue Monk Kidd
“You could say I'd never had a true religious moment, the kind where you know yourself spoken to by a voice that seems other than yourself, spoken to so genuinely you see the words shining on trees and clouds. But I had such a moment right then, standing in my own ordinary room. I heard a voice say, Lily Melisa Owens, your jar is open.

In a matter of seconds I knew exactly what I had to do --leave.”
Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

Sue Monk Kidd
“Look at you child, look what he's done to you," she said.

My knees had been tortured like this enough times in my life that I'd stopped thinking of it as out of the ordinary; it was just something you had to put up with from time to time, like the common cold. But suddenly the look on Rosaleen's face cut through all that. Look what he's done to you.
Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees