Sue Monk Kidd Quotes

Knowing can be a curse on a person's life. I'd traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, and I didn't know which one was heavier.

The truth is scary, but knowing nothing is crippling.

Always face what you fear. Have just enough money, never too much, and some string. Even if it’s not your fault, it’s your responsibility. Witches deal with things. Never stand between two mirrors. Never cackle. Do what you must do. Never lie, but you don’t always have to be honest. Never wish. Especially don’t wish upon a star, which is astronomically stupid. Open your eyes, and then open your eyes again.

When you fail to tell the truth, you are kept bound to the past in ways that devastate your soul.

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.

I feel the weight of just telling the truth. There really is no weight to telling the truth. It's a little scary sometimes, but if you tell the truth, you don't have to be looking over your shoulder.

It's a weird thing about the truth: It protects you. What really makes you vulnerable is when you're lying because you're going to get caught. When you tell the truth, there's a strange relief that comes.

With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back.

When I was a kid, I got in trouble for lying a lot, and I had a teacher say, 'Instead of lying, write it down, because if you write it down, it's not a lie anymore; it's fiction.'

You better have your story down before you take it to a teenager.

I used to lie a lot as a child, which I now regret. I think it is much easier just to tell the truth.

I'm not a believer in 'what you don't know won't hurt you,' unless it's innocent.

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.

It's easier to tell a lie, than to tell the truth. It's easier to kill a fly, than it is to turn it loose.

Danger has been a part of my life ever since I picked up a pen and wrote. Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies.

Once you know the truth, you can’t ever go back and pick up your suitcase of lies. Heavier or not, the truth is yours now.

There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie.

And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are.

Truth is the lie you once told returning to haunt you

It is worse than folly... not to recognize the truth, for in it lies the tinder for tomorrow.

The weight of lies will bring you down, follow you to every town 'cause nothing happens here that doesn't happen there.

To have lied is to have suffered.

Live a lie, and you will live to regret it; that's what livin' is to me.

Blame it on the lies that killed us. Blame it on the truth that ran us down.

Lies were lethal, however honourable the intentions of the liar. They deprived people of the opportunity to know the basic facts of their own lives.