Kathryn Stockett

“We must keep this a perfect secret.”

— Kathryn Stockett

“They ain’t rich folk, that I know. Rich folk don’t try so hard. I”

— Kathryn Stockett

Sorry is the fool who ever underestimates my mother.

— Kathryn Stockett

“Remembering can be almost as good as what actually happens.”

— Kathryn Stockett

It can be really powerful to write something when youre sad.

— Kathryn Stockett

it always sound scarier when a hollerer talk soft.

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“FOR NO REASON but to irritate me, we get a heat wave in December.”

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I intend to stay on her like hair on soap.

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“...I want to read what you're thinking. I'm pretty sure it's not about housekeeping.”

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“To say I have frizzy hair is an understatement. It is kinky, more pubic than cranial, and whitish blond, breaking off easily,…

— Kathryn Stockett

“...that's what I want them to know. Saying thank you, when you really mean it, when you remember what someone done for…

— Kathryn Stockett

It's already 95 degrees outside. Mississippi got the most unorganized weather in the nation.

— Kathryn Stockett

“He needs "space" and "time," as if this were physics and not a human relationship.”

— Kathryn Stockett

Babies like fat. Like to bury they face up in you armpit and go to sleep. They like big fat legs too.…

— Kathryn Stockett

“That was the day my whole world went black. Air look black, sun look black. I laid up in bed and stared…

— Kathryn Stockett

“A bitter seed was planted inside of me. And I just didn’t feel so, accepting, anymore.”

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“I used to believe in 'em [lines]. I don't anymore. They in our heads. People like Miss Hilly is always trying to…

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But certainly in my grandmother's time - and when I was growing up, yeah, Demetrie's bathroom was on the side of the…

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“Ever afternoon, me and Baby Girl set in the. rocking chair before her nap. Ever afternoon, I tell her: You kind, you…

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...out of the blue, he kissed me. Right in the middle of the Robert E. Lee Hotel Restaurant, he kissed me so…

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“…He kissed me so slowly with an open mouth and every single thing in my body - my skin, my collarbone, the…

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I tell myself that's what you get when you put thirty-one toilets on the most popular girl's front yard. People tend to…

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On the one hand I wonder, Was this really my story to tell? On the other hand, I just wanted the story…

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That white uniform was her 'pass' to get into white places with us - the grocery store, the state fair, the movies.…

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I look deep into her rich brown eyes and she look into mine. Law, she got old-soul eyes, like she done lived…

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“We go on in her room, where we like to set. I get up in the big chair and she get up…

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Oh, it was delicious to have someone to keep secrets with. If I'd had a sister or a brother closer in age,…

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I haven’t had the chance to look at too many men’s faces up close. And I noticed how his skin was thicker…

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The point is, I can’t tell you how to succeed. But I can tell you how not to: Give in to the…

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“(...) Acho que foi quando percebi o que era a vergonha e também qual era a sua cor. A vergonha não é…

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“There is so much you don’t know about a person. I wonder if I could’ve made her days a little bit easier,…

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“I LOST MY OWN BOY, Treelore, right before I started waiting on Miss Leefolt. He was twenty-four years old. The best part…

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“Do you ever wish you could… change things?”

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Who knew paper and ink could be so vicious

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“I don't regret it, but I don't feel quite as lucky anymore.”

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“I tucked this away, afraid to admit how good it was to hear it.”

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She dumb.” I sigh. “But she ain’t stupid.

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Ugly live up on the inside. Ugly be a hurtful, mean person.

— Kathryn Stockett

That's the way prayer do. It's like electricity, it keeps things going.

— Kathryn Stockett

Bosoms are for bedrooms and breastfeeding.

— Kathryn Stockett