Frasi di Sue Monk Kidd (101 frasi, pagina 2)

Variante: People, in general, would rather die than forgive. It'shard. If God said in plain language, "I'm giving you a choice, forgive or die," a lot of people would go ahead and order their coffin.
Origine: The Secret Life of Bees

“It was the oldest sound there was. Souls flying away.”

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Sue Monk Kidd libro La vita segreta delle api

Origine: The Secret Life of Bees (2002)

“women made the best beekeepers 'cause they have a special ability built into them to love creatures that sting.”

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Sue Monk Kidd libro La vita segreta delle api

Origine: The Secret Life of Bees

“Now and then sprays of rain flew over and misted our faces. Every time I refused to wipe away the wetness. It made the world seem so alive to me. I couldn't help but envy the way a good storm got everyone's attention.”

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Sue Monk Kidd libro La vita segreta delle api

Origine: The Secret Life of Bees

“I watched him, filled with tenderness and ache, wondering what it was that connected us. Was it the wounded places down inside people that sought each other out, that bred a kind of love between them?”

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Origine: The Secret Life of Bees

“My body might be a slave, but not my mind. For you, it's the other way round.”

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Origine: The Invention of Wings

“There's no pain on earth that doesn't crave a benevolent witness.”

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Origine: The Invention of Wings

“What's wrong with living in a dream world? You have to wake up.”

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Sue Monk Kidd libro La vita segreta delle api

Origine: The Secret Life of Bees

“There's release in knowing the truth no matter how anguishing it is. You come finally to the irreducible thing, and there's nothing left to do but pick it up and hold it. Then, at last, you can enter the severe mercy of acceptance.”

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Sue Monk Kidd libro The Mermaid Chair

Origine: The Mermaid Chair

“If you aren't giving people something to talk about, you've become too dull.”

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Sue Monk Kidd libro The Mermaid Chair

Origine: The Mermaid Chair

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

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Sue Monk Kidd libro La vita segreta delle api

Origine: The Secret Life of Bees

“you got to figure out which end of the needle you’re gon be, the one that’s fastened to the thread or the end that pierces the cloth.”

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Origine: The Invention of Wings

“In the photograph by my bed my mother is perpetually smiling on me. I guess I have forgiven us both, although sometimes in the night my dreams will take me back to the sadness, and I have to wake up and forgive us again.”

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Sue Monk Kidd libro La vita segreta delle api

Origine: The Secret Life of Bees

“And I was struck all at once how life was out there going through its regular courses, and I was suspended, waiting, caught in a terrible crevice between living my life and not living it.”

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Sue Monk Kidd libro La vita segreta delle api

Origine: The Secret Life of Bees (2002)

“I promise you, no one judges me more harshly than I do myself; I caused a brilliant wreckage. Some say I fell from grace; they’re being kind. I didn’t fall – I dove.”

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Sue Monk Kidd libro The Mermaid Chair

Origine: The Mermaid Chair

“People who think dying is the worst thing don't know a thing about life.”

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Sue Monk Kidd libro La vita segreta delle api

Variante: Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life.
Origine: The Secret Life of Bees (2002)

“Look, I know you meant well creating the world and all, but how could you let it get away from you like this? How come you couldn't stick with your original idea of paradise? People's lives were a mess.”

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Origine: The Secret Life of Bees

“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.”

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Sue Monk Kidd libro La vita segreta delle api

Origine: The Secret Life of Bees

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