Darby Knox > Recent Status Updates

"But of course an exciting life, even if very difficult, is better than a dull one, even if it changes you forever."

"It's hell to be a woman...to want so much love, to feel like only half a person, to need so much. What was it Plato had said? A man and a woman are each only half a person until they unite. Why hadn't he made that clearer to men?"

I've never posted an update this early, but I'm obsessed with this review of the book (from the 1950s):

"Any employer reading these pages will make a mental note to check up on what the girls in his office do after lunch, and with whom." - New York Post

This has gotten off to a slow start for me, but it's starting to pick up!

"I've been thinking this Advent season that instead of lighting candles, singing Christmas carols, and making merry, we should dress in sackcloth and ashes. We should get down on our knees, wash our neighbor's feet, beat swords into plowshares, and put ourselves last, just like the child whose birth we gather to celebrate."

"So was that your friend from work?" "That was my ex-girlfriend." "Really?" "Really." "Serious?" "Dead serious." "No, I mean was it serious? Between the two of you." Their love was the gravity that moored him to the earth. "Pretty serious."

"Maybe quick payouts are the stuff of life, and the long game, the one you struggle for and strive for and always and forever get back to work for, is the sucker's bet."

Sue Monk Kidd's writing is incredible! I could probably highlight every other sentence as one to re-read. Can't put this down!

I love when you can quickly tell that a book is going to be special!