Rebecca

“I saw then what I hadn’t seen before, that I was very good at despising slavery in the abstract, in the removed and anonymous masses, but in the concrete, intimate flesh of the girl beside me, I’d lost the ability to be repulsed by it. I’d grown comfortable with the particulars of evil. There’s a frightful muteness that dwells at the center of all unspeakable things, and I had found my way into it.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Invention of Wings

“sometimes people are broken and don’t know how to mend because they aren’t able to say what they need or deeply want. Sometimes you get to a point in life where you realize you’ve made a terrible mistake and you desperately need to fix it, but it’s so deep and bitterly ingrained you can’t start.”
― Loreth Anne White, A Dark Lure

“The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.”
― Barbara Taylor Sissel, Crooked Little Lies

“The sorry truth is you can walk your feet to blisters, walk till kingdom-come, and you never will outpace your grief.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Invention of Wings