Quotes by Sue Monk Kidd

About Sue Monk Kidd:

Sue Monk Kidd is a writer from the Southern United States, best known for her novel, The Secret Life of Bees.
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The past week, Mother had denied her a pass to the market for some minor, forgettable reason, and she’d taken it hard. Her market excursions were the acme of her days, and trying to commiserate, I'd said, “I'm sorry, Handful, I know how you must ...

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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.

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Sarah shifted on the bench. I worried she was winding up to say something, that Sky would start humming now, that the fright spring-coiled inside me would break loose. Then I remembered the widow dress I was wearing. I made a sound with my lips like ...

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I said out loud, "Damn you for saving yourself. How come you left me with nothing but to love you and hate you, and that's gonna kill me, and you know it is." Then I turned round, went back to the cellar room, and picked up the sewing. Don't think sh...

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Mr. Vesey, though, he didn't like any kind of talk about heaven. He said that was the coward’s way, pining for life in the hereafter, acting like this one didn’t mean a thing. I had to side with him on that.

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To condemn slavery was one thing—that I could do in my own individual heart—but female ministers!

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I was not sorry for loving Charleston or for leaving it. Geography had made me who I was.

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You come from your mauma, you sleep in the bed with her till you're near twenty years grown, and you still don't know what haunches in the dark corners of her.

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People who think dying is the worst thing don’t know a thing about life.

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Every living creature on the earth is special. You want to be the one that puts an end to one of them?

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The whole problem with people is they know what matters but they don't choose it. ~Secret Lives of Bees

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I didn't know what to think, but what I felt was magnetic and so big it ached like the moon had entered my chest and filled it up. The only think I could compare it to was the feeling I got one time when I walked from the peach stand and saw the sun ...

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People can start out one way, and by the time life gets through with them they end up completely different.

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August: You know, somethings don't matter that much...like the color of a house...But lifting a person's heart--now that matters. The whole problem with people--" Lily: They don't know what matters and what doesn't... August:...They know what matters...

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He'd gone to church for forty years and was only getting worse. It seemed like this should tell God something.

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And when you get down to it, Lily, that is the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to love but to persist in love.

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Depressed people do things they wouldn't ordinarily do.

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If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.

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I don't remember what they said, only the fury of their words, how the air turned raw and full of welts. Later it would remind me of birds trapped inside a closed room, flinging themselves against the windows and the walls, against each other.

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In the photograph by my bed my other is perpetually smiling on me. I guess I have forgiven us both, although sometimes in the night my dreams will take me back to the sadness, and I have to wake up and forgive us again.

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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.

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Author Bio

  • NameSue Monk Kidd
  • DescriptionNovelist
  • BornAugust 12, 1948
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWoman Of Letters; Novelist