The Invention of Wings
Sue Monk Kidd
Top 10 Best Quotes
“To remain silent in the face of evil is itself a form of evil.”
“If you must err, do so on the side of audacity.”
“My body might be a slave, but not my mind. For you, it's the other way round.”
“There's no pain on earth that doesn't crave a benevolent witness.”
“you got to figure out which end of the needle you’re gon be, the one that’s fastened to the thread or the end that pierces the cloth.”
“We 're all yearning for a wedge of sky, aren 't we? I suspect God plants these yearnings in us so we'll at least try and change the course of things. We must try, that's all" - Lucretia Mott in The Invention of Wings―
“I’d chosen the regret I could live with best, that’s all.”
“I saw then what I hadn't seen before, that I was very good at despising slavery in the abstract, in the removed and anonymous masses, but in the concrete, intimate flesh of the girl beside me, I'd lost the ability to be repulsed by it. I'd grown comfortable with the particulars of evil. There's a frightful muteness that dwells at the center of all unspeakable things, and I had found my way into it.”
“The sorry truth is you can walk your feet to blisters, walk till kingdom-com, and you never will outpace your grief.”
“If you don't know where your're going, you should know where you came from.”
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