Sue Monk Kidd

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Sue Monk Kidd (born August 12, 1948) is an American writer from Sylvester, Georgia. She is best known for her historical novels, which frequently deal with themes of race, feminism, and religion and include The Secret Life of Bees and The Book of Longings.

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

—Sue Monk Kidd

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There's nothing like a song about lost love to remind you how everything precious can slip from the hinges where you've hung it so careful.

—Sue Monk Kidd in The Secret Life of Bees

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As I descended the stairs, the years between us seemed accumulated everywhere, filling the house, and it seemed strange to me, how love and habit blurred so thoroughly to make a life.

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When it's time to die, go ahead and die, and when it's time to live, live. Don't sort-of-maybe live, but live like you're going all out, like you're not afraid.

—Sue Monk Kidd in The Secret Life of Bees

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Books

Sue Monk Kidd has the following books quoted on Quodid:

The Secret Life of Bees