You create a path of your own by looking within yourself and listening to your soul, cultivating your own ways of experiencing the sacred and then practicing it. Practicing until you make it a song that sings you.
Sue Monk KiddRead
Novels attempt to render human experience; that's really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Novels are a representation of human experiences meant to foster empathy.
This quote from Sue Monk Kidd emphasizes the core purpose of novels, which is to depict the complexities of human life and emotion. Through storytelling, authors aim to create a bridge of understanding, allowing readers to empathize with characters and their experiences, highlighting the universal nature of human feelings and connections.
Themes
NovelsEmpathyHuman ExperienceStorytellingCharacter
In practice
Example use cases
In a book club discussion, one could use this quote to highlight the emotional depth of the characters in the novel being read.
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I watched him, filled with tenderness and ache, wondering what it was that connected us. Was it the wounded places down inside people that sought each other out, that bred a kind of love between them?
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I felt amazed at the choosing one had to do, over and over a million times daily--choosing love, then choosing it again...how loving and being in love could be so different.
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Where do you come from?"...This is the number one most-asked question in all of South Carolina. We want to know if you are one of us, if your cousin knows our cousin, if your little sister went to school with our big brother, if you go to the same Baptist church as our ex-boss. We are looking for ways our stories fit together.
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Back in the autumn I had awakened to a growing darkness and cacophony, as if something in the depths were crying out. A whole chorus of voices. Orphaned voices. They seemed to speak for all the unlived parts of me, and they came with a force and dazzle that I couldn't contain. They seemed to explode the boundaries of my existence. I know now that they were the clamor of a new self struggling to be born.
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