Sue Monk Kidd

"That's the only purpose grand enough for a human life.  Not just to love - but to persist in love"
-Sue Monk Kidd, "The Secret Life of Bees"


"More than once, while staring at the wall, I'd thought of Our Lady.  I wanted to talk to her, to say, Where do I go from here?  But when I'd seen her earlier, when August and I had first come in, she didn't look like she could be of service to anybody, bound up with all that chain around her.  You want the one you're praying to at least to look capable."
-Sue Monk Kidd, "The Secret Life of Bees"


"I decided against marrying altogether.  There were enough restrictions in my life without someone expecting me to wait on him hand and foot.  Not that I'm against marrying, Lily.  I'm just against how it's set up."
-Sue Monk Kidd, "The Secret Life of Bees"