Quotes by Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

Explore a curated collection of 39 quotes by Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

I hadn't been out to the hives before, so to start off she gave me a lesson in what she called 'bee yard etiquette'. She — Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
We are so limited, you have to use the same word for loving Rosaleen as you do for loving Coke with peanuts. Isn't that — Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you. — Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
The world will give you that once in awhile, a brief timeout; the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner, where som — Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
There is nothing perfect...only life. — Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind the fabric o — Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
Actually, you can be bad at something...but if you love doing it, that will be enough. - August Boatwright — Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
Knowing can be a curse on a person's life. I'd traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, and I didn't know which one — Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
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 y — Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
He'd gone to church for forty years and was only getting worse. It seemed like this should tell God something. — 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 — Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
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
Nobody around here had ever seen a lady beekeeper till her. She liked to tell everybody that women made the best beekeep — Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
Up until then I'd thought that white people and colored people getting along was the big aim, but after that I decided e — Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
I didn't know what to think, but what I felt was magnetic and so big it ached like the moon had entered my chest and fil — Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
You don't have to place your hand on Mary's heart to get strength and consolation and rescue, and all the other things w — Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
Nothing is fair in this world. You might as well get that straight right now — Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
I don't remember what they said, only the fury of their words, how the air turned raw and full of welts. Later it would — 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
In the photograph by my bed my other is perpetually smiling on me. I guess I have forgiven us both, although sometimes i — Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees