Top 500 Sue Monk Kidd Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “When you’re waiting, you’re not doing nothing. You’re doing the most important something there is. You’re allowing your soul to grow up. If you can’t be still and wait, you can’t become what God created you to be.”

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102. “The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them. I was wondering what my body knew that I didn’t.”

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103. “Most people don’t have any idea about all the complicated life going on inside a hive. Bees have a secret life we don’t know anything about.”

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104. “I don’t hold to the idea that God causes suffering and crisis. I just know that those things come along and God uses them. We think life should be a nice, clean ascending line. But inevitably something wanders onto the scene and creates havoc with the nice way we’ve arranged life to fall in place.”

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105. “People, in general, would rather die than forgive. It’s that hard.”

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106. “You don’t have to place your hand on Mary’s heart to get strength and consolation and rescue, and all the other things we need to get through life. You can place it right here on your own heart. Your own heart.”

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107. “Above all, send the bees love. Every little thing wants to be loved.”

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108. “It was the first time I’d ever said the words to another person, and the sound of them broke open my heart.”

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109. “It takes honeybee workers ten million foraging trips to gather enough nectar to make one pound of honey. – Bees of the World.”

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110. “Sometimes you want to fall on your knees and thank God in heaven for all the poor news reporting that goes on in the world.”

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111. “T. Ray said ‘Who do you think you are? Julias Shakespeare?’ The man sincerely thought that was Shakespeare’s first name, and if you think I should have corrected him, you are ignorant about the art of survival.”

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112. “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.”

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113. “In the photograph by my bed my mother 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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114. “Honeybees depend not only on physical contact with the colony, but also require it’s social companionship and support. Isolate a honeybee from her sisters and she will soon die.”

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115. “Later I would read Ursula K. Le Guin’s comment: “I am a slow unlearner. But I love my unteachers.”

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116. “How did we ever get the idea that God would supply us on demand with quick fixes, that God is merely a rescuer and not a midwife?”

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117. “Lord our God, hear my prayer, the prayer of my heart. Bless the largeness inside me, no matter how I fear it. Bless my reed pens and my inks. Bless the words I write. May they be beautiful in your sight. May they be visible to eyes not yet born. When I am dust, sing these words over my bones: she was a voice.”

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118. “There’s no pain on earth that doesn’t crave a benevolent witness.”

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119. “Drifting off to sleep, I thought about her. How nobody is perfect. How you just have to close your eyes and breathe out and let the puzzle of the human heart be what it is.”

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120. “There is nothing perfect,′ August said from the doorway. ‘There is only life.”

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121. “If you must err, do so on the side of audacity. That was the little slogan I’d devised for myself.”

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122. “My body might be a slave, but not my mind. For you, it’s the other way round.”

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123. “She liked to tell everyone that women make the best beekeepers, ’cause they have a special ability built into them to love creatures that sting.”

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124. “This is what I know about myself. She was all I wanted. And I took her away.”

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125. “There’s a gap somehow between empathy and activism. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke of ‘soul force’ – something that emanates from a deep truth inside of us and empowers us to act. Once you identify your inner genius, you will be able to take action, whether it’s writing a check or digging a well.”

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126. “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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127. “Putting black cloths on the hives is for us. I do it to remind us that life gives way into death, and then death turns around and gives way into life.”

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128. “Actually, you can be bad at something, Lily, but if you love doing it, that will be enough.”

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129. “When I looked up through the web of trees, the night sky fell over me, and for a moment, I lost my boundaries, feeling like the sky was my own skin and the moon was my heart beating up there in the dark.”

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130. “To fashion an inner story of our pain carries us into the heart of it, which is where rebirth inevitably occurs.”

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131. “I wanted to know what happened when two people felt it. Would it divide the hurt in two, make it lighter to bear, the way feeling someone’s joy seemed to double it?”

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132. “I knew then that no matter how hard you tried, no matter how many jars of honey you threw, no matter how much you thought you could leave your mother behind, she would never disappear from the tender places in you.”

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133. “Have you ever written a letter you knew you could never mail but you needed to write it anyway?”

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134. “You are my everlasting home. Don’t you ever be afraid. I am enough. We are enough.”

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135. “When I tell you all shall be well, I don’t mean that life won’t bring you tragedy. Life will be life. I only mean you will be well in spite of it. All shall be well, no matter what.”

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136. “I wished she’d been smart enough, or loving enough, to realize everybody has burdens that crush them, only they don’t give up their children.”

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137. “Now and then sprays of rain flew over and misted our faces. Every time I refused to wipe away the wetness. It made the world seem so alive to me. I couldn’t help but envy the way a good storm got everyone’s attention.”

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138. “The way those bees flew, not even looking for a flower, just flying for the feel of the wind, split my heart down its seam.”

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139. “Our earlier lives aren’t wrong, they are just pre-construction. Our lives are meant to unfold, to evolve, and that’s good. The only wrong thing, perhaps, is permanently hesitating on the verge of courage, which would prevent this process from taking place.”

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140. “My aspiration to become a jurist had been laid to rest in the Graveyard of Failed Hopes, an all-female establishment. The sorrow of it had faded, but regret remained, and I’d taken to wondering if the Fates might be kinder to a different girl.”

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141. “When I am dust, sing these words over my bones: she was a voice.”

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142. “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.”

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143. “Until we look from the bottom up we have nothing.”

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144. “Cello music swelled out from the house, rising higher and higher until it lifted off the earth, sailing toward Venus.”

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145. “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.”

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146. “Gazing into the mirror, I saw myself as I was-a black silhouette in the room, a woman whose darkness had completely leaked through.”

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147. “I missed Rosaleen’s snoring the way you’d miss the sound of the ocean waves after you’ve gotten used to sleeping with them. I didn’t realize how it had comforted me. Quiteness has a strange, spongy hum that can nearly break your eardrums.”

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148. “My mother’s life was way too heavy for me.”

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149. “There is no place so awake and alive as the edge of becoming. But more than that, birthing the kind of woman who can authentically say, ‘My soul is my own,’ and then embody it in her life, her spirituality, and her community is worth the risk and hardship.”

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150. “You think you want to know something, and then once you do, all you can think about is erasing it from your mind.”

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