Every little thing wants to be loved.
("The Secret Life of Bees")
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I wondered what it was like to be inside her, just a curl of flesh swimming in the darkness, the quiet things that had passed between us.Sue Monk Kidd
It was the first time I'd ever said the words to another person, and the sound of them broke open my heart.
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And when you get down to it, Lily, that is the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to love but to persist in love.
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Drifting off to sleep, I thought about her. How nobody is perfect. How you just have to close your eyes and breathe out and let the puzzle of the human heart be what it is.
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Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.
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This is the autumn of wonders, yet every day, every single day, I go back to that burned afternoon in August when T. Ray left. I go back to that one moment when I stood in the driveway with small rocks and clumps of dirt around my feet and looked back at the porch. 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
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