Sue Monk Kidd quotes - page 3

Have you ever written a letter you knew you could never mail but you needed to write it anyway? (Sue Monk Kidd)
This is what I know about myself. She was all I wanted. And I took her away. View quote
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Yes, here I am returning, the woman who bore herself to the bottom and back. Who wanted to swim like dolphins, leaping waves and diving. Who wanted only to belong to herself. View quote
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Did you know there are thirty-two names for love in one of the Eskimo languages?" August said. "And we just have this one. We are so limited, you have to use the same word. View quote
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Sometimes I didn't even feel like getting out of bed. I took to wearing my days-of-the-week panties out of order. It could be Monday and I'd have on underwear saying Thursday. I just didn't care. View quote
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It was the in-between time, before day leaves and night comes, a time I've never been partial to because of the sadness that lingers in the space between going and coming. View quote
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The whole problem with people is they don't know what matters and what doesn't. View quote
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I'll write this all down for you," I said. "I'll put it in a story." I don't know if that's what he wanted to ask me, but it's something everybody wants--for someone to see the hurt done to them and set it down like it matters. View quote
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the redness had seeped from the day and night was arranging herself around us. Cooling things down, staining and dyeing the evening purple and blue black. View quote
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Gazing into the mirror, I saw myself as I was-a black silhouette in the room, a woman whose darkness had completely leaked through. View quote
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When a woman starts to disentangle herself from patriarchy, ultimately she is abandoned to her own self. (Sue Monk Kidd)
I felt amazed at the choosing one had to do, over and over a million times daily--choosing love, then choosing it again... how loving and being in love could be so different. View quote
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I worried so much about how I looked and whether I was doing things right, I felt half the time I was impersonating a girl instead of really being one. View quote
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I realize what a strange in-between place I am in. The Young Woman inside has turned to go, but the Old Woman has not shown up. View quote
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The words were unexpected, but so incisively true. So much of prayer is like that - an encounter with a truth that has sunk to the bottom of the heart, that wants to be found, wants to be spoken, wants to be elevated into the realm of sacredness. View quote
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That's what I told myself five hundred times: impossibility. I can tell you this much: the word is a great big log thrown on the fires of love. ~Page 133. View quote
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How could I choose someone who would force me to give up my own small reach for meaning? I chose myself, and without consolation. View quote
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Standing there, I loved myself and I hated myself. That's what the black Mary did to me, made me feel my glory and my shame at the same time. View quote
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She didn't even know how dangerous the truth could be, all the tiny, shattering seeds it carried. View quote
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It takes a bee 10,000,000 trips to collect enough nectar to make 1 pound of honey. View quote
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Everybody needs a seashell in her bathroom to remind her the ocean is her home. (Sue Monk Kidd)
Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work. View quote
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I think many people need, even require, a narrative version of their life. I seem to be one of them. Writing memoir is, in some ways, a work of wholeness. View quote
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I eventually found that the soul is more than an immortal commodity to win and save. It is the repository of the inner divine, the truest part of us. View quote
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A lot of time you write out of some unconscious place. I try to trust what is coming and where it wants to take me. View quote
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