April Brabender

“You don’t have to feel love for her. Only try to act with love.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Book of Longings

“We women harbor our intimacies in locked places in our bodies.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Book of Longings

“All shall be well, child.”

I reared up then. “Will it? You cannot know that! How can you know that?”

“Oh, Ana, Ana. When I tell you all shall be well, I don’t mean that life won’t bring you tragedy. Life will be life. I only mean you will be well in spite of it. All shall be well, no matter what.”

“If Antipas kills my husband as he did John, I cannot imagine I will be well.”

“If Antipas kills him, you’ll be devastated and grief-stricken, but there’s a place in you that is inviolate—it’s the surest part of you, a piece of Sophia herself. You’ll find your way there, when you need to. And you’ll know then what I speak of.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Book of Longings

“Return to your longing. It will teach you everything.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Book of Longings