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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.

Sue Monk Kidd

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Sue Monk Kidd
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 12
Novelist
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Sylvester
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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.
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History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until we are able to make another's pain in the heart our own.
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Journal became a sanctuary where I could pour out in honesty my pain and joy. It recorded my footsteps and helped me understand where I was standing, where I had been, and even where God pointed.
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Actually, you can be bad at something...but if you love doing it, that will be enough. - August Boatwright
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I'd forgotten how that sort of craving felt, how it rose suddenly and loudly from the pit of my stomach like a flock of startle birds, then floated back down in the slow, beguiling way of feathers.
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Grandmotherhood initiated me into a world of play, where all things became fresh, alive, and honest again through my grandchildren's eyes. Mostly, it retaught me love.
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I can't think of anything I'd rather have more than somebody lovin' me.
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Once you know the truth, you can’t ever go back and pick up your suitcase of lies. Heavier or not, the truth is yours now.
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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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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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Sunset is the saddest light there is.
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Nobody should go through life without falling in love.
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I could even feel how perishable all my moments really were, how all my life they had come to me begging to be lived, to be cherished even.
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I believe in the goodness of imagination.
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You can't stop your heart from loving, really -- it's like standing out there in the ocean yelling at the waves to stop.
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It was the in-between time, before day leaves and night comes, a time I’ve never been partial to because of the sadness that lingers in the space between going and coming.
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We walked along the river with the words streaming behind us like ribbons in the night.
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The world depends upon the small beating in your heart.
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