When you can't go forward, and you can't go backward, and you can't stay where you are without killing off something deep and vital in yourself, you are on the edge of creation.
Sue Monk Kiddthe 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.
Sue Monk KiddThat's the sacred intent of life, of God--to move us continuously toward growth, toward recovering all that is lost and orphaned within us and restoring the divine image imprinted on our soul.
Sue Monk KiddIt is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.
Sue Monk Kidd