Sue Monk Kidd Quotes

I might as well have pulled the trigger myself.

There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble ... deny your responsibility.

I'm guilty for a lot of things.

I was bad, but I was one of the kids that never got caught. If anyone ever knew I did something, it was because I told them. 'Cause I'm a really good liar, so I end up snitching on myself.

Everybody is laden with guilt.

Innocence has a single voice that can only say over and over again, "I didn't do it." Guilt has a thousand voices, all of them lies.

They always say they didn't. I never heard of one who said, 'You know, I deserve this.' Never happens.

Then Henry speaks again. "Did he do it?" I turn to him slowly. "Does it matter?

Blaming is so much easier than taking responsibility, because if you take responsibility … then you might be to blame.

What man ever blamed himself for his misfortune?

I cannot bear the responsibility for one drop of blood.

One person's embarrassment is another person's accountability.

Loomis has always felt himself responsible for the fact that he did not stop Michael when he first murdered his sister, and so he's got that guilt to live with.

I don't blame it on the Hell's Angels. I blame it on the people who were there.

You wont hear anything from me that says I didn't kill David. I did kill him.

If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself and wipe myself off the face of the earth.

Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done.

To the extent that I considered the personal burden of harming the people who had trusted me, plus the Agency, or the United States, I wasn't processing that.

The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured.

Did I kill anyone?

An excuse is sometimes more ugly than guilt.

No one wants to be at the wrong end of finger-pointing.

He who flees proves himself guilty.

Men are only too clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.

The responsibility for all these acts falls first of all on the deported people.