Sue Monk Kidd Quotes

tell me how does it feel with my teeth in your heart!

I'd rather have a broken arm than a broken heart.

We have the idea that our hearts, once broken, scar over with an indestructible tissue that prevents their ever breaking again in quite the same place.

The first person you fell in love with stole your heart. The first person you made love with stole your soul. And if these were one and the same, you were doomed.

Do you know the best thing about broken hearts? They can only really break once the rest is just scratches.

Man was made to lead with his chin; he is worth knowing only with his guard down, his head up and his heart rampant on his sleeve.

When the heart is cut or cracked or broken Do not clutch it Let the wound lie open Let the wind from the good old sea blow in to bathe the wound with salt and let it sting. Let a stray dog lick it Let a bird fly in the hole and sing a simple song like a tiny bell and let it ring.

Tell me everything, I would say. All about the blues, and the time your heart was broken, and what scares you the most, and the thing you've always wanted to do but haven 't yet.

Her cry was the saddest sound of orgasm that I had ever heard.

The first boy I fell in love with didn't know I loved him, but he managed to break my heart anyway.

I carried Rudy softly through the broken street...with him I tried a little harder at comforting. I watched the contents of his soul for a moment and saw a black-painted boy calling the name Jesse Owens as he ran through an imaginary tape. I saw him hip-deep in some icy water, chasing a book, and I saw a boy lying in bed, imagining how a kiss would taste from his glorious next-door neighbor. He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It's his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.

I cut a hole in my heart and wrote with the blood.

I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem.

Whenever there's the experience of a broken heart, there's the experience of fear.

I tell you this to break your heart, by which I mean only that it break open and never close again to the rest of the world.

She talks with a broken heart - Her voice lutes brokenly like a heart lost, musically too, like in a lost grove, it's almost too much to bear sometimes like some fantastic futuristic Jerry Southern singer in a nightclub who steps up to the mike in the spotlight in Las Vegas but doesn't even have to sing, just talk, to make men sigh and women wonder I guess.

Because i've suffered. Because many times in my life i have tried to love with all my heart, and my love has wound up being trampled or betrayed.

I think I'd rather have my heart broke than do the breaking. —Lena

This is how your heart gets snagged, like a balloon on a barbed-wire fence, this is where pieces of you get torn away.

Don't mind if I fall apart. There's more room in a broken heart.

My heart broke open and history fell in.

If it works out, it's the best thing in the world. If it doesn't work out, it's like having your heart torn out and chopped up into little pieces while you watch. It leaves a big hollow space that never really heals.

The things that break your heart when you think there's nothing left to break

There were only so many ways a man‟s heart could break, and he had a feeling his couldn‟t survive another puncture.