It's always been my hope that I would write a story that would inspire and would connect with people in a way that would touch hearts. Sue Monk Kidd More Quotes by Sue Monk Kidd More Quotes From Sue Monk Kidd Finally, I began to write about becoming an older woman and the trepidation it stirred. The small, telling "betrayals" of my body. The stalled, eerie stillness in my writing, accompanied by an ache for some unlived destiny. I wrote about the raw, unsettled feelings coursing through me, the need to divest and relocate, the urge to radically simplify and distill life into a new, unknown meaning. Sue Monk Kidd betrayal destiny writing 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. Sue Monk Kidd lilies purpose enough 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. Sue Monk Kidd august names two Every human being on the face of the earth has a steel plate in his head, but if you lie down now and then and get still as you can, it will slide open like elevator doors, letting in all the secret thoughts that have been standing around so patiently, pushing the button for a ride to the top. The real troubles in life happen when those hidden doors stay closed for too long. Sue Monk Kidd real doors lying It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening. Sue Monk Kidd peculiar goes-on world I'm tired of carrying around the weight of the world. I'm just going to lay it down now. It's my time to die, and it's your time to live. Don't mess it up. Sue Monk Kidd tired weight world Probably one or two moments in your whole life you will hear a dark whispering spirit, a voice coming from the center of things. It will have blades for lips and will not stop until it speaks the one secret thing at the heart of it all. Kneeling on the floor, unable to stop shuddering, I heard it plainly. It said, You are unlovable. Sue Monk Kidd dark heart two Something deep in all of us yearns for God's beauty, and we can find it no matter where we are. Sue Monk Kidd gods-beauty matter Where do you come from?"...This is the number one most-asked question in all of South Carolina. We want to know if you are one of us, if your cousin knows our cousin, if your little sister went to school with our big brother, if you go to the same Baptist church as our ex-boss. We are looking for ways our stories fit together. Sue Monk Kidd cousin brother school I think there must be a place inside of us where dreams go and wait their turn. Sue Monk Kidd waiting dream thinking We walked along the river with the words streaming behind us like ribbons in the night. Sue Monk Kidd ribbons rivers night There is nothing perfect...only life. Sue Monk Kidd perfect I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind the fabric of our poor, browbeat days, shining brightly, and we don't even know it. Sue Monk Kidd fabric shining world We are so limited, you have to use the same word for loving Rosaleen as you do for loving Coke with peanuts. Isn't that a shame we don't have many more ways to say it? Sue Monk Kidd coke use way Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life. Sue Monk Kidd knows life thinking It's your time to live, don't mess it up. Sue Monk Kidd mess 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. Sue Monk Kidd hundred bigs fire I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process. It's not something that happens overnight. It's an evolution of the heart. Sue Monk Kidd forgiveness heart long Everybody needs a seashell in her bathroom to remind her the ocean is her home. Sue Monk Kidd ocean home needs You are my everlasting home. Don't you ever be afraid. I am enough. We are enough. Sue Monk Kidd everlasting enough home
