Sue Monk Kidd Quotes - Page 2

...he felt God the same way arthritic monks felt rain coming in their joints. He felt only a hint of him.

It was the time of year when migrating crows wheeled across the sky, thunderous flocks that moved like a single veil, and I heard them, out there in the wild chirruping air. Turing to the window, I watched the birds fill the sky before disappearing, and when the air was still again, I watched the empty place where they had been.

The pear trees were bare, their limbs spread open like the viscera of a parasol. Stretching into the darkness beyond, the single houses, double houses, and villas were lined up in cramped, neat rows which ran toward the tip of the peninsula. p94

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

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

If someone should ask me, 'What does the soul do?' I would say, It does two things. It loves. And it creates. Those are its primary acts.

Depressed people do things they wouldn't ordinarily do.