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Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life.

Sue Monk Kidd

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Sue Monk Kidd
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 12
Novelist
Writer
Sylvester
Georgia
Thing
Thinking
Life
Scariest
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Death
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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?
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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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It's your time to live, don't mess it up.
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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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I didn't know then what I wanted, but the ache for it was palpable.
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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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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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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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Until we look from the bottom up we have nothing.
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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.
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It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.
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I sit in my new room and write everything down. My heart never stops talking.
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I can't think of anything I'd rather have more than somebody lovin' me.
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the redness had seeped from the day and night was arranging herself around us. Cooling things down, staining and dyeing the evening purple and blue black.
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All my life I've thought I needed someone to complete me, now I know I need to belong to myself.
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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.
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After you get stung, you can't get unstung no matter how much you whine about it.
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I grew up in the American South and came of age in the 1960s, an incredibly turbulent time. It was as if the seams of American life were being ripped apart with riots and protests.
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A lot of time you write out of some unconscious place. I try to trust what is coming and where it wants to take me.
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There's release in knowing the truth no matter how anguishing it is. You come finally to the irreducible thing, and there's nothing left to do but pick it up and hold it. Then, at last, you can enter the severe mercy of acceptance.
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