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I'm sorry for being a little tense, Island. I suppose I'm not used to having guests in the front seat. My clients usually ride in the trunk, you know. — Camilla Monk

If you really understand the meaning of be-bop, you understand the meaning of freedom. — Thelonious Monk

A man should be proud of his heritage - not arrogant, as if it made him superior, but happy to own it and live up to the best in its promise. Monk — Anne Perry

But there was something about Nola that negated my bullshit ability. — Devon Monk

When I found the music of Monk I finally found music that fit that horn. Every one of his tunes fit it perfectly. — Steve Lacy

Still, I held my right hand ready to cast a spell in case arts-and-craft hour suddenly ended and they went back to Killing 101. — Devon Monk

I think there must be a place inside of us where dreams go and wait their turn. — Sue Monk Kidd

If I say, "I am a monk." or "I am a Buddhist," these are, in comparison to my nature as a human being, temporary. To be human is basic. — Dalai Lama

I thought of the girl who bathed in a copper tub. I thought of the woman who stole a bullet mold. I loved that girl, that woman. — Sue Monk Kidd

I personally keep slave documents listing the value of slaves framed on my wall in California, and in my office in Chicago. — Sue Monk Kidd

She has been the keeper of home for me, and I have been the keeper of journey for her. And now we look for the lost portion in each other. — Sue Monk Kidd

I have, I think, afforded every opportunity that could be reasonably expected, to judge of my credibility. — Maria Monk

The Devil was sick - the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he — Francois Rabelais

In the end, the only monument that matters may be the work of love we carve into the lives around us. — Sue Monk Kidd

Such a notion made it virtually impossible to enjoy life! And this, If God did not exist, man would — Sue Monk Kidd

I do read a poem almost every morning. Unless I'm really, really late, I have to get my poem in. — Sue Monk Kidd

When I heard Monk in person in 1955, he was playing with a quartet in a small club. The place was full of musicians, but there was no public at all. — Steve Lacy

Every living creature on the earth is special. You want to be the one that puts an end to one of them? — Sue Monk Kidd

At heart I am a librarian, a bird-watcher, a transcendentalist, a gardener, a spinster, a monk. — Juliana Hatfield

The ephemeral nature of live performance is the part I love most - it's a monk's sand painting, carefully constructed, then wiped away in an instant. — Rosanne Cash

Hope is born from ashes and love yeilds to no other power. Return to your heart." A — Devon Monk

There was so much in the world to be had and not had. — Sue Monk Kidd

We didn't like each other when you were alive," I muttered to my father. "You think living in my head is going to change that? — Devon Monk

You're the first person I've seen here who's actually dressed like a monk." "It's a bathrobe. — Peter Watts

Is there an option C? Take a vacation somewhere sunny, and drink a lot of rum until the world unfucks itself? — Devon Monk

Escape her own father as well. Seizing the moment, she springs Rosaleen from jail, and the two set out across South — Sue Monk Kidd

You have to know when to prod and when to be quiet, when to let things take their course. — Sue Monk Kidd

One time, that true brass thimble. — Sue Monk Kidd

Take credit, but it's all you. On a balmy afternoon — Sue Monk Kidd

When a monk complained about the world's evil, the Buddha stretched his hand toward the Earth: on this Earth I attained Liberation. — Frederick Franck

Indeed, as I made my critique, the problem seemed to me not that there are differences but rather how we value these differences. — Sue Monk Kidd

Let's use our heads," he said, giving Shame a hard look.
Shame just grinned. "That's my favorite thing to use. — Devon Monk

A monk's extraordinary patience can be a hindrance to desperate decision-making. — Harsha Bhogle

Don't be an idiot," Terric said. "You were unconscious less than ten minutes ago."
"And you were a dick. One of us got better. — Devon Monk

Kick Book One Of The Jenkins Cycle John L. Monk — John L. Monk

Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture. — Thelonious Monk

Just as the habit does not make the monk, the sceptre does not make the king. — Jose Saramago

Some things were not possible in this world. Children did not have two parents who refused to love them. One, maybe, but for pity's sake, not two. — Sue Monk Kidd

It takes a bee 10,000,000 trips to collect enough nectar to make 1 pound of honey. — Sue Monk Kidd

Everyone is a genius at being themselves — Thelonious Monk

Working with Monk is like falling down a dark elevator shaft — John Coltrane

I didn't know how to be in the world without her. — Sue Monk Kidd

So, the date was on. I'd tell Zayvion I had a chaperone. Maybe he could help me figure it out. — Devon Monk

Something deep in all of us yearns for God's beauty, and we can find it no matter where we are. — Sue Monk Kidd

I am a simple Buddhist monk. — Dalai Lama

I'm always captivated by stories of women who find a way to be daring - misbehaving women. — Sue Monk Kidd

I realize that I can be with someone, but on a deeper level I'm not available to them at all. I have attention deficit disorder of the soul. — Sue Monk Kidd

Sometimes, in order to say yes to what matters most, I must say no to good things. — Sue Monk Kidd

We have two kids, my wife and myself. — Thelonious Monk

I was playing birthday parties. House-rent parties where they used to sell whisky during prohibition. — Thelonious Monk

If a monk can overcome two things, he can become free from the world. Bodily ease and vain-glory. — Poemen

. . Why would God plant such deep yearnings in us . . . if they only come to nothing? — Sue Monk Kidd

I relaxed my grip. "Say I win."

"I win," he managed. — Devon Monk

When I wrote 'The Secret Life of Bees,' I was writing about civil rights. — Sue Monk Kidd

Reading was a kind of freedom, the only one I could give — Sue Monk Kidd

My legs are long but my body is too short. — Sophie Monk

The bees came the summer of 1964 — Sue Monk Kidd

If you don't know where your're going, you should know where you came from. — Sue Monk Kidd

I was a very good nurse, but I burned out after eight years or so because it wasn't what I truly wanted to do. Writing is what I belong to. — Sue Monk Kidd

He felt God the same way arthritic monks felt rain coming in their joints. He felt only a hint of him. — Sue Monk Kidd

People who think dying is the is the worst thing don't know a thing about life. — Sue Monk Kidd

In the Far East, it is taken for granted that the training of a monk is physically rigorous and academically challenging. — Frederick Lenz

Back then, Miss Sarah pulled words up from her throat like she was raising water from a well. — Sue Monk Kidd

Make the world better. Take the meanness out of people's hearts. — Sue Monk Kidd

Don't tell me there are more things like that on the streets."
"Okay," he said. — Devon Monk

Be your own lamp, seek no other refuge but yourself, Let truth be your light." ~Buddha — Buddha Monk

A monk is holy and great until he starts teaching you the real Dharma — Tsem Tulku

It's not a damn death wish. I just know how much my pain is worth. — Devon Monk

Into every life a little rain must fall. — Sue Monk Kidd

Reincarnation is when I tell a girl I write spiritual books and she thinks I'm a monk. She has a medieval soul. — Daniel Marques

I actually grew up in a house in which bees lived in one of the walls, and they lived there 18 years, in fact, so it wasn't a fleeting thing. — Sue Monk Kidd

He's over your head! He was, but naturally I'd flung myself into the Sea of Voltaire anyway and emerged with nothing more than several aphorisms. — Sue Monk Kidd

You can tell which girls lack mothers by the look of their hair ... — Sue Monk Kidd

I'd chosen the regret I could live with best, that's all. — Sue Monk Kidd

Lovely, quite girl, no trouble, no trouble at all. You wouldn't even know she was in the house. That is often the yarn twisted around women's wrists. — Sue Monk Kidd

The only wrong thing, perhaps, is permanently hesitating on the verge of courage. — Sue Monk Kidd

The secret of a good lie is don't overly explain, and throw in one good detail. — Sue Monk Kidd

Foolish heart, I thought. I don't have time for you.
But my heart, being foolish, did not listen. — Devon Monk

We become what we pay attention to — Sue Monk Kidd

Sunset is the saddest light there is. — Sue Monk Kidd

I'd been wandering about in the enchantments of romance, afflicted with the worst female curse on earth, the need to mold myself to expectations. — Sue Monk Kidd

Magic is a heartless bitch, and she's had me by the throat for years. — Devon Monk

Jazz is my adventure. — Thelonious Monk

A note can be as small as a pin or as big as the world, it depends on your imagination. — Thelonious Monk

I want my words to open a portal through which the reader may leave the self, migrate to some other human sky and return 'disposed' to otherness. — Sue Monk Kidd

Being on Broadway is the modern equivalent of being a monk. I sleep a lot, eat a lot, and rest a lot. — Hugh Jackman

For what it's worth, charting one's passion in a small daybook kept hidden in a hatbox inside a wardrobe does not subdue passion in the least. — Sue Monk Kidd

A monk asks:Is there anything more miraculous than the wonders of nature?The master answers:Yes, your awareness of the wonders of nature. — Angelus Silesius

Looks like it's game time," Shame said. "Beautiful day for some ass kicking, don't you think? — Devon Monk

I processed his words, my lips searching for his clumsily in the dark. I felt his fingers squeeze my neck. And that douche choked me out. — Camilla Monk

I think I would like to be a monk. I really considered Catholicism a few years ago, but there were some things that I just couldn't reconcile. — Rich Mullins

Have you ever noticed the more you try not to think, the more elaborate your thinking episodes get? — Sue Monk Kidd

Instinct told me it was dangerous.
I could handle dangerous. Dangerous and me went back a long way. We did lunch when dangerous was in town. — Devon Monk

About as useless as a monk with a ten-inch cock. — T.M. Frazier

What's wrong with living in a dream world? You have to wake up. — Sue Monk Kidd

It shocks me how I wish for ... what is lost and cannot come back. — Sue Monk Kidd

Novels attempt to render human experience; that's really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character. — Sue Monk Kidd

Throughout the history of the Deutschritter the German genius is very evident, romantic idealism implemented with utter ruthlessness. — Desmond Seward

The monk solved his immediate problem by giving a little whimper and fainting. — Terry Pratchett

The wolf was sick, he vowed a monk to be - But when he got well, a wolf once more was he — Walter Bower