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Loss takes up inside of everything sooner or later and eats right through it.

Sue Monk Kidd

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Sue Monk Kidd
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 12
Novelist
Writer
Sylvester
Georgia
Right
Eats
Sooner
Later
Loss
Inside
Takes
Everything

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Probably one or two moments in your whole life you will hear a dark whispering spirit, a voice coming from the center of things. It will have blades for lips and will not stop until it speaks the one secret thing at the heart of it all. Kneeling on the floor, unable to stop shuddering, I heard it plainly. It said, You are unlovable.
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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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You can tell which girls lack mothers by the look of their hair.
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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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I believe in the goodness of imagination.
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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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Until we look from the bottom up we have nothing.
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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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You have to know when to prod and when to be quiet, when to let things take their course.
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Sometimes, in order to say yes to what matters most, I must say no to good things.
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There is nothing perfect...only life.
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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 didn't know then what I wanted, but the ache for it was palpable.
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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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After you get stung, you can't get unstung no matter how much you whine about it.
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It shocks me how I wish for...what is lost and cannot come back.
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You have to find a mother inside yourself. We all do. Even if we already have a mother, we still have to find this part of ourselves inside
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And when you get down to it, Lily, that is the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to love but to persist in love.
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