Candy Harker

“I'm tired of carrying around the weight of the world. I'm just going to lay it down now. It's my time to die, and it's your time to live. Don't mess it up.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“Probably one or two moments in your whole life you will hear a dark whispering spirit, a voice coming from the center of things. It will have blades for lips and will not stop until it speaks the one secret thing at the heart of it all. Kneeling on the floor, unable to stop shuddering, I heard it plainly. It said, You are unlovable...”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“I felt someone should personally thank every rock out there for the human misery it had absorbed. We should kiss them one by one & say, we are sorry, but something strong & lasting had to do this for May, & you are the chosen ones. God bless your rock hearts.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“Regrets don't help anything.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees