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“Senti, so che le tue intenzioni erano buone quando hai creato il mondo e tutto quanto ma come hai potuto permettere che si allontanasse da te in questo modo? Com'è che non ti sei attenuto alla tua idea originale di paradiso?”

Sue Monk Kidd libro La vita segreta delle api

The Secret Life of Bees

Sue Monk Kidd: Frasi in inglese

“Loss takes up inside of everything sooner or later and eats right through it.”

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Sue Monk Kidd libro La vita segreta delle api

Origine: The Secret Life of Bees

“I believe in the goodness of imagination.”

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

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Sue Monk Kidd libro La vita segreta delle api

Origine: The Secret Life of Bees

“Have you ever written a letter you knew you could never mail but you needed to write it anyway?”

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Sue Monk Kidd libro La vita segreta delle api

Origine: The Secret Life of Bees

“We 're all yearning for a wedge of sky, aren 't we? I suspect God plants these yearnings in us so we'll at least try and change the course of things. We must try, that's all" - Lucretia Mott in The Invention of Wings
― Sue Monk Kidd”

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Origine: The Invention of Wings

“Regrets don't help anything.”

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Sue Monk Kidd libro La vita segreta delle api

Origine: The Secret Life of Bees

“This is what I know about myself. She was all I wanted. And I took her away.”

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Origine: The Secret Life of Bees

“The sorry truth is you can walk your feet to blisters, walk till kingdom-com, and you never will outpace your grief.”

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Origine: The Invention of Wings

“Yes, here I am returning, the woman who bore herself to the bottom and back. Who wanted to swim like dolphins, leaping waves and diving. Who wanted only to belong to herself.”

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Sue Monk Kidd libro The Mermaid Chair

Origine: The Mermaid Chair

“You can't stop your heart from loving, really -- it's like standing out there in the ocean yelling at the waves to stop.”

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Origine: The Mermaid Chair

“So few people know what they're capable of.”

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Sue Monk Kidd libro The Mermaid Chair

Origine: The Mermaid Chair

“Did you know there are thirty-two names for love in one of the Eskimo languages?" August said. "And we just have this one. We are so limited, you have to use the same word.”

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Sue Monk Kidd libro La vita segreta delle api

Origine: The Secret Life of Bees

“Sometimes I didn't even feel like getting out of bed. I took to wearing my days-of-the-week panties out of order. It could be Monday and I'd have on underwear saying Thursday. I just didn't care.”

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Origine: The Secret Life of Bees

“I’d chosen the regret I could live with best, that’s all.”

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Origine: The Invention of Wings

“When mauma saw my raw eyes, she said, “Ain’t nobody can write down in a book what you worth.”

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Origine: The Invention of Wings

“We walked along the river with the words streaming behind us like ribbons in the night.”

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Sue Monk Kidd libro La vita segreta delle api

Origine: The Secret Life of Bees (2002)

“It was the in-between time, before day leaves and night comes, a time I’ve never been partial to because of the sadness that lingers in the space between going and coming.”

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Origine: The Secret Life of Bees

“The whole problem with people is they don't know what matters and what doesn't.”

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Origine: The Secret Life of Bees

“I'll write this all down for you," I said. "I'll put it in a story." I don't know if that's what he wanted to ask me, but it's something everybody wants--for someone to see the hurt done to them and set it down like it matters.”

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Origine: The Secret Life of Bees

“the redness had seeped from the day and night was arranging herself around us. Cooling things down, staining and dyeing the evening purple and blue black.”

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Origine: The Secret Life of Bees

“Gazing into the mirror, I saw myself as I was-a black silhouette in the room, a woman whose darkness had completely leaked through.”

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Sue Monk Kidd libro The Mermaid Chair

Origine: The Mermaid Chair

“If you don't know where your're going, you should know where you came from.”

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Origine: The Invention of Wings

“For a moment I felt the quiet hungering thing that comes inside when you return to the place of your origins, and then the ache of mis-belonging.”

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Origine: The Invention of Wings

“When a woman starts to disentangle herself from patriarchy, ultimately she is abandoned to her own self.”

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Origine: The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine

“You know, some things don't matter that much… Like the color of a house. How big is that in the overall scheme of life? But lifting a person's heart - now, matters.”

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Origine: The Secret Life of Bees

“I felt amazed at the choosing one had to do, over and over a million times daily--choosing love, then choosing it again… how loving and being in love could be so different.”

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Sue Monk Kidd libro The Mermaid Chair

Origine: The Mermaid Chair

“I wished she'd been smart enough, or loving enough, to realize everybody has burdens that crush them, only they don't give up their children.”

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Sue Monk Kidd libro La vita segreta delle api

Origine: The Secret Life of Bees

“I realize what a strange in-between place I am in. The Young Woman inside has turned to go, but the Old Woman has not shown up.”

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Origine: Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story

“God fills us with all sorts of yearnings that go against the grain of the world—but the fact those yearnings often come to nothing, well, I doubt that’s God’s doing.” She cut her eyes at me and smiled. “I think we know that’s men’s doing.”

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Origine: The Invention of Wings

“The words were unexpected, but so incisively true. So much of prayer is like that - an encounter with a truth that has sunk to the bottom of the heart, that wants to be found, wants to be spoken, wants to be elevated into the realm of sacredness.”

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Origine: Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story

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