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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About Sue Monk Kidd

Sue Monk Kidd (born August 12, 1948) is an American writer from Sylvester, Georgia best known for her novels The Secret Life of Bees and The Invention of Wings.

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