Sue Monk Kidd

Sue Monk Kidd

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Date created: April 2010

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Birthdate August 12, 1948

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Location Sylvester, Georgia

Country United States of America

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Still everyone, including the abbot, had said that he was running away from his grief. They'd had no idea what they were talking about. He'd cradled his grief, almost to the point of loving it. For so long he refused to give it up, because leaving it behind was like leaving her.

Tags: grief

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.

Tags: deep

My mother's life was way too heavy for me.

Tags: mother

I can't think of anything I'd rather have more than somebody lovin' me.

Tags: sweet

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.

Tags: inspiration meditation prayer

People, in general, would rather die than forgive. It's that hard.

Tags: bees life secret

There is nothing perfect...only life.

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You can go other places, all right - you can live on the other side of the world, but you can't ever leave home

Tags: childhood home nostalgia

It shocks me how I wish for...what is lost and cannot come back.

Tags: life nostalgia

Up until then I'd thought that white people and colored people getting along was the big aim, but after that I decided everybody being colorless together was a better plan. I thought of that policeman, Eddie Hazelwurst, saying I'd lowered myself to be in this house of colored women, and for the very life of me I couldn't understand how it had turned out this way, how colored women had become the lowest ones on the totem pole. You only had to look at them to see how special they were, like hidden royalty among us. Eddie Hazelwurst. What a shitbucket.

Tags: peace race women

I now understand that writing fiction was a seed planted in my soul, though I would not be ready to grow that seed for a long time.

Tags: fiction novelists novels writers writing

The world will give you that once in awhile, a brief timeout; the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner, where somebody dabs mercy on your beat-up life.

Tags: life mercy

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