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  1. Sue Monk Kidd _ The Mermaid Chair

    You're looking for a reason," she said. "And that doesn't help. It doesn't change the present.
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  2. Sue Monk Kidd _ The Mermaid Chair

    I didn't see why loving someone had to have so much agony attached to it. It felt like a series of fresh cuts in the skin of my heart
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  3. Sue Monk Kidd _ The Mermaid Chair

    I could even feel how perishable all my moments really were, how all my life they had come to me begging to be lived, to be cherished even, and the impassive way I'd treated them
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  4. Sue Monk Kidd _ The Mermaid Chair

    They say you can bear anything if you can tell a story about it.
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  5. Sue Monk Kidd _ The Mermaid Chair

    What matters is giving over to what you love.
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  6. Sue Monk Kidd _ The Mermaid Chair

    It's part of our overall Body Negation Program.
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  7. Sue Monk Kidd _ The Mermaid Chair

    To be honest, I had been restless...The sensation would rise suddenly like freight from the ocean floor--the unexpected discontent of cows in their pasture. The constant chewing of all that cud.
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  8. Sue Monk Kidd _ The Mermaid Chair

    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.
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  9. Sue Monk Kidd _ The Mermaid Chair

    ...he felt God the same way arthritic monks felt rain coming in their joints. He felt only a hint of him.
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  10. Sue Monk Kidd _ The Mermaid Chair

    I have come here not to find answers, but to find a way to live in a world without any.
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  11. Sue Monk Kidd _ The Mermaid Chair

    The mermaids came to me finally, in the pink hours of my life. They are my consolation. For them I dove with arms outstretched, my life streaming out behind me, a leap against all proprieties and expectations, but a leap that was somehow saving and necessary. How can I ever explain or account for that? I dove, and a pair of invisible arms simply appeared, unstinting arms, like the musculature of grace suddenly revealing itself. They caught me after I hit the water, bearing me not to the surface but to the bottom, and only then pulling me up.
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  12. Sue Monk Kidd _ The Mermaid Chair

    The translucence that comes when life hardens into a bead of such cruel perfection you see it with the purest clarity. Everything suddenly there--life as it truly is, enormous, appalling, devastating. You see the great sinkholes it makes in people and the harrowing lengths to which love will go to fill them."
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