Sue Monk Kidd, The Mermaid Chair Quotes

You can go other places, all right - you can live on the other side of the world, but you can't ever leave home

...he felt God the same way arthritic monks felt rain coming in their joints. He felt only a hint of him.

There would be no grand absolution, only forgiveness meter out in these precious sips. I would well up from Hugh's heart in spoonfuls, and he would feed it to me. And it would be enough.

There are things without explanation, moments when life will become arranged in such odd ways that you imagine a whole vocabulary of meaning inside them. The breakfast smell struck me like that.

You're looking for a reason, " she said. "And that doesn't help. It doesn't change the present.

I have come here not to find answers, but to find a way to live in a world without any.