Traveling with Pomegranates Quotes

“It shocks me how I wish for...what is lost and cannot come back.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story

“My children have always existed at the deepest center of me, right there in the heart/hearth, but I struggled with the powerful demands of motherhood, chafing sometimes at the way they pulled me away from my separate life, not knowing how to balance them with my unwieldy need for solitude and creative expression.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story

“We write to taste life twice," Anais Nin wrote, "in the moment and in retrospection.”
― Sue Monk Kidd & Ann Kidd Taylor, Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story

“I realize what a strange in-between place I am in. The Young Woman inside has turned to go, but the Old Woman has not shown up.”
― Sue Monk Kidd & Ann Kidd Taylor, Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story

“The words were unexpected, but so incisively true. So much of prayer is like that - an encounter with a truth that has sunk to the bottom of the heart, that wants to be found, wants to be spoken, wants to be elevated into the realm of sacredness.”
― sue monk kidd, Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story

“Into every life a little rain must fall.”
― Sue Monk Kidd & Ann Kidd Taylor, Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story

“I realize I'm trying to work out the boundaries. How to love her without interfering. How to step back and let her have her private world and yet still be an intimate part of it. When she talks about her feelings, I have to consciously tell myself she wants me to receive them, not fix them.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story

“I've tried to shield myself from life and inhabit my own small, safe corner; but there's no immunity from life.”
― Ann Kidd Taylor Sue Monk Kidd, Traveling with Pomegranates

“I now understand that writing fiction was a seed planted in my soul, though I would not be ready to grow that seed for a long time.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story

“In recent years my understanding of God had evolved into increasingly remote abstractions. I'd come to think of God in terms like Divine Reality, the Absolute, or the One who holds us in being. I do believe that God is beyond any form and image, but it has grown clear to me that I need an image in order to relate. I need an image in order to carry on an intimate conversation with what is so vast, amorphous, mysterious, and holy that it becomes ungraspable. I mean, really, how to you become intimate with Divine Reality? Or the Absolute?”
― Sue Monk Kidd, Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story

“The two of us praying like this to the Black Madonna Sudenly washes over me, and I'm filled with love for my mother. The best gift she has give me is the constancy of her belief. Whatever I become, she loves me. To her, I am enough.”
― ann kidd taylor, Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story

“But I've discovered being a writer is an ongoing apprenticeship, just like everything else in life that matters to me-being a mother, a wife, a daughter, or simply a woman alive in the world, content to be myself. Today at thirty-two, I am glad to wake up each day and begin.”
― Sue Monk Kidd & Ann Kidd Taylor, Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story

“I feel again the hunger to let go of my striving and find the ability to become content and still, intentionally "superfluous," as writer Helen M. Luke puts it. I want a refuge from my old conquering self.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story

“Rebirth is almost impossible without the darkness.....I tell myself I am experiencing the death of myself as mother, the death of myself as a younger woman -- precious old lives going by the wayside. Of course, I should let myself grieve. To deny the grief is to squander a transforming and radiant possibility.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story

“I would like to be free of the part of me that dares too little and fears too much.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story

“Whatever it is I'm born to do, my fear of failing at it has almost become greater than my desire to figure out what it is.”
― Ann Kidd Taylor, Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story

“I learned how easy it is to give up and become draperies while everyone else is dancing.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story

“Women who bear the weight of opposition, she wrote, create a shelter for the rest of us.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story

“Yet I remember the rule I set for myself-that I do something different from my mother. . . I started to believe I couldn't really do that if I was following in the path of either of my parents... That so-called rule helped me separate more fully from my mother and father, I realize, but maybe it also kept me from seeing what was right in front of me. ”
― Sue Monk Kidd & Ann Kidd Taylor, Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story

“Ms. came into practice, to give a woman an alternative to being recognized by her marital status, and thereby known as herself. How do I want to be known.”
― Sue Monk Kidd & Ann Kidd Taylor, Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story

“When is the impulse to help an adult child a wise intervention and when is it self-serving and prying? I have an uneasy feeling I will have to carry the question around for a while like some grating pebble in my shoe.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story

“Readiness for dying arrives by attending the smallest moment and finding the eternal inside of it.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story

“One day i will have to forgive life for ending. I tell myself I will have to learn how to let life be life with its unbearable finality.....just be what ti is.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story

“I only know there's something unsettling about a door that closes forever. I feel a vague lament about the changing of my body, the alterations in my appearance, the bleeding out of motherhood, the fear that I will not find the mysterious green fuse again.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story

“I wonder if that's the perennial story of writers: you find the true light, you lose the true light, you find it again. And maybe again.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story

“I wonder: instead of retreating and hiding, instead of pining for the way it was, what if I accept the way it is? This strikes me as both the most obvious thing in the world and the most profound.”
― Ann Kidd Taylor, Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story

“When she talks about her feelings, I have to consciously tell myself she wants me to receive them, not fix them.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story

“fix it. But I know my impulse to tear open the closed, secret place in my daughter comes from a need to stave off my own fear. When is the impulse to help an adult child a wise intervention”
― Sue Monk Kidd, Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story

“It was respect she had for feelings, how she believed it was inimical to the soul to deny them.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story

“People do not come to Greece to rest. They come to gain their days.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story