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“There is nothing perfect,' August said from the doorway. 'There is only life.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“I felt half the time I was impersonating a girl instead of really being one.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“How one minute she was talking to you and the next she had slipped into a private world where she turned her thoughts over and over, digesting stuff most people would choke on. I wanted to say, Teach me how to do that. Teach me how to take all this in.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“The problem is [people] know what matters, but they don't choose it.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“It was possible to close your eyes and exit life without actually dying. You just had to faint.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“People, in general, would rather die than forgive. It’s that hard. If God said in plain language, “I’m giving you a choice, forgive or die,â€� a lot of people would go ahead and order their coffin.”
― Sue Monk Kidd

“There is nothing perfect, there is only life.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“She was wet with my crying. Up around her collar the cotton of her dress was plastered to her skin. I could see her darkness shining through the wet places. She was like a sponge, absorbing what I couldn't hold anymore.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“My mother was a good Catholic -- she went to mass twice a week at St. Mary's in Richmond, but my father was an Orthodox Eclectic.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“We walked to the woods beside the pink house with her stories still pulled soft around our shoulders. I could feel them touching me in places, like an actual shawl.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“Did this mean if I told May about T. Ray's mounds of grits, his dozens of small cruelties, about my killing my mother--that hearing it, she would feel everything I did? I wanted to know what happened when two people felt it. Would it divide the hurt in two, make it lighter to bear, the way feeling someone's joy seemed to double it?”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“The queen, for the most part, is the unifying force of the community, if she removed from the hive, the workers very quickly sense her absence. After a few hours, or even less, they show unmistakable signs of queenlessness.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“This is what I know about myself. She was all I wanted. And I took her away.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“That night it felt strange to be in the honey house by myself. I missed Rosaleen's snoring the way you'd miss the sound of ocean waves after you've gotten used to sleeping with them. I didn't realise how it had comforted me. Quietness has a strange, spungy hum that can nearly break your eardrums.”
― Sue Monk Kidd (Author), The Secret Life of Bees

“You know, Lily, people can start out one way, and by the time life gets through with them they end up completely different.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“women made the best beekeepers, cause they have a special ability in them to love creatures that sting.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“Depressed people do things they wouldn't ordinarily do.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn’t know a thing about life.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“And there they were. All these mothers. I have more mothers than any eight girls off the street. They are the moons shining over me.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“You just don't interrupt somebody's mourning with your own problems.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“I was concious of Zach's breathing, his shirt pulled across his chest, one arm draped on the steering wheel. The hard, dark look of it. The mystery of his skin.
It was foolish to think some things were beyond happening, even being attracted to Negroes. I'd honestly thought such a thing couldn't happen, the way water could nog run uphill or salt could not taste sweet. A law of nature.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“There's a fullness of time for things, Lily. You have to know when to prod and when to be quiet, when to let things take their course.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“In the photograph by my bed my other 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.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“I climbed into the honey wagon with my hair uncombed, with May handing me buttered toast and orange juice through the window and Rosaleen sticking in thermoses of water, both of them practically running alongside the truck while August rolled out of the driveway. I felt like the Red Cross springing to action to save the bee queendom.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“I sit in my new room and write everything down. My heart never stops talking.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“She reminded me that the world was really one big bee yard, and the same rules worked fine in both places: Don't be afraid, as no life-loving bee wants to sting you. Still, don't be an idiot; wear long sleeves and long pants. Don't swat. Don't even think about swatting. If you feel angry, whistle. Anger agitates, while whistling melts a bee's temper. Act like you know what you're doing, even if you don't. Above all, send the bees love. Every little thing wants to be loved.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“You don't have to put your hand on Mary's heart to get strength and consolation and rescue, and the other things we need to get through life," she said. "You can place it right here on your own heart. Your own heart.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“Water beaded across her shoulders, shining like drops of milk, and her breasts swayed in the currents. It was the kind of vision you never really get over. I couldn’t help it, I wanted to go and lick the milk beads from her shoulders. I opened my mouth. I wanted something. Something, I didn’t know what. Mother, forgive.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“When I looked up through the web of trees, the night sky fell over me, and for a moment, I lost my boundaries, feeling like the sky was my own skin and the moon was my heart beating up there in the dark.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“Being in love and getting married, now, that's two different things. I was in love once, of course I was. Nobody should go through life without falling in love.

But didn't you love him enough to marry him?

I loved him enough, I just loved my freedom more.”
― sue monk kidd, The Secret Life of Bees