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I'll write this all down for you, I said. I'll put it in a story. I don't know if that's what he wanted to ask me, but it's something everybody wants--for someone to see the hurt done to them and set it down like it matters.
Sue Monk Kidd
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Sue Monk Kidd
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 12
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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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It shocks me how I wish for...what is lost and cannot come back.
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We become what we pay attention to.
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You can tell which girls lack mothers by the look of their hair.
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Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life.
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How often do we do that, he wondered--look at someone and fail to see what's really there?
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You are my everlasting home. Don't you ever be afraid. I am enough. We are enough.
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I can't think of anything I'd rather have more than somebody lovin' me.
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That's the sacred intent of life, of God--to move us continuously toward growth, toward recovering all that is lost and orphaned within us and restoring the divine image imprinted on our soul.
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I realize what a strange in-between place I am in. The Young Woman inside has turned to go, but the Old Woman has not shown up.
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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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We walked along the river with the words streaming behind us like ribbons in the night.
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