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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About 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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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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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.

—Sue Monk Kidd

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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It takes a planet to explore the universe.

—Dylan Taylor

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Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.

—Mitch Albom in The Five People You Meet in Heaven

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Over and above any spring we may know, outside our windows or in our hearts, there is the illimitable sweep of God's concern for his creation and his creatures; comprehending both suffering and beatitude, and transcending both. No one who has been spared — certainly not I — dare say to the afflicted that they are blessed in their affliction, or dare offer comfort in universal terms for particular griefs. Yet one can dimly see and humbly say that suffering is an integral and essential part of our human drama. That it falls upon one and all in differing degrees and belongs to God's purpose for us here on earth, so that in the end, all the experience of living has to teach us is to say: Thy will be done. To say it standing before a cross; itself signifying the suffering of God in the person of a Man, and the redemption of a Man in the person of God. The greatest sorrow and the greatest joy co-existing on Golgotha.

—Malcolm Muggeridge in Something Beautiful for God

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The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever.

—Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

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This is the most joyful day that ever I saw in my pilgrimage on earth.

—Donald Cargill