Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life Of Bees Quotes

If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.

Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.

I'm tired of carrying around the weight of the world. I'm just going to lay it down now. It's my time to die, and it's your time to live. Don't mess it up.

Every living creature on the earth is special. You want to be the one that puts an end to one of them?

Nothing is fair in this world. You might as well get that straight right now

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.

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?

I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind the fabric of our poor, browbeat days, shining brightly, and we don't even know it.

There is nothing perfect...only life.

People can start out one way, and by the time life gets through with them they end up completely different.

He'd gone to church for forty years and was only getting worse. It seemed like this should tell God something.

Actually, you can be bad at something...but if you love doing it, that will be enough. - August Boatwright

My mother's life was way too heavy for me.

I worried so much about how I looked and whether I was doing things right, I felt half the time I was impersonating a girl instead of really being one.

I can't think of anything I'd rather have more than somebody lovin' me.

My mother was a good Catholic -- she went to mass twice a week at St. Mary's in Richmond, but my father was an Orthodox Eclectic.

Depressed people do things they wouldn't ordinarily do.

Have you ever noticed the more you try not to think, the more elaborate your thinking episodes get?

I was wishing I had a story like that one to live inside me with so much loudness you could pick it up on a stethoscope.

Up until then I'd thought that white people and colored people getting alone was the big aim, but after that I decided everybody being colorless together was a better plan.

It occurred to them for the first time in their lives that what's divine can come in dark skin.

It takes so much energy to keep things at bay.

The whole problem with people is they know what matters but they don't choose it. ~Secret Lives of Bees