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The Help by Kathryn Stockett
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"She hug me around my neck, say, "You're righter than Miss Taylor." I tear up then. My cup is spilling over. Those is new words to me."
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

"With other people, Hilly hands out lies like the Presbyterians hand out guilt, but it's our own silent agreement, this strict honesty, perhaps the one thing that has kept us friends"
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

"I'm tired of the rules," I say."
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

"He let out a long sorry sigh and I love that look on his face, that disappointment. I understand now why girls resist,just for that sweet look of regret...."
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

"President Kennedy's assassination, less than two weeks ago, has struck the world dumb. It's like no one wants to be the first to break the silence. Nothing seems important."
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

"Eres buena, eres lista, eres importante."
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

"I'm pretty sure I can say that no one in my family ever asked Demetrie what it felt like to be black in Mississippi, working for our white family. It never occurred to us to ask. It was everyday life. It wasn't something people felt compelled to examine.
I have wished, for many years, that I'd been old enough and thoughtful enough to ask Demetrie that question. She died when I was sixteen. I've spent years imagining what her answer would be. And that is why I wrote this book."
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

"Bosoms," she announces, with a hand to her own, "are for bedrooms and breastfeeding. Not for occasions with dignity."
"Well, what do you want her to do, Eleanor? Leave them at home?"
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

"What if I'm stuck. Here. Forever."
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

"And I know there are plenty of other "colored" things I could do besides telling my stories or going to Shirley Boon's meetings- the mass meetings in town, the marches in Birmingham, the voting rallies upstate. But truth is, I don't care that much about voting. I don't care about eating at a counter with white people. What I care about is, if in ten years, a white lady will call my girls dirty and accuse them of stealing the silver."
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

"Cause that's the way prayer do. It's like electricity, it keeps things going."
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

"What you learn today?" I ask even though she ain't in real school, just the pretend kind. Other day, when I ask her, she say, "Pilgrims. They came over and nothing would grow so they ate the Indians."

Now knew them Pilgrims didn't eat no Indians. But that ain't the point."
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

"Rule Number One for working for a white lady, Minny: it is nobody's business. You keep your nose out of your White Lady's problems, you don't go crying to her with yours—you can't pay the light bill? Your feet are too sore? Remember one thing: white people are not your friends. They don't want to hear about it. And when Miss White Lady catches her man with the lady next door, you keep out of it, you hear me?"
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

"I'd rather spend the rest of my life right here in Aibileen's cozy little kitchen, having her explain the world to me. That's what I love about Aibileen, she can take the most complicated things in life and wrap them up so small and simple, they'll fit right in your pocket."
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

"I hear Raleigh's new accounting business isn't doing well. Maybe up in New York or somewhere it's a good thing, but in Jackson, Mississippi, people just don't care to do business with a rude, condescending asshole."
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

"Only three things them ladies talk about: they kids, they clothes, and they friends. I hear the word Kennedy, I know they ain't discussing no politic. They talking about what Miss Jackie done wore on the tee-vee."
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

"In the dark, I get a glimpse of myself from way above, like in a movie. I've become one of those people who prowl around at night in their cars. God, I am the town's Boo Radley, just like in To Kill a Mockingbird"
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

"I guess that's when I understood what shame was and the color of it too. Shame ain't black, like dirt, like I always thought it was. Shame be the color of a new white uniform your mother ironed all night to pay for, white without a smudge or a speck a work-dirt on it"
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

"It's already 95 degrees outside. Mississippi got the most unorganized weather in the nation."
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

"We done something brave and good here....Maybe [we] don't want to be deprived a any a the things that go along with being brave and good. Even the bad."
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

"I used to be a good fighter." She looks out along the boxwoods, wipes off her sweat with her palm. "If you'd known me ten years ago..."
She's got no goo on her face, her hair's not sprayed, her nightgown's like an old prairie dress. She takes a deep breath through her nose and I see it. I see the white-trash girl she was ten years ago. She was strong. She didn't take no shit from nobody."
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

"Minny," I say last Sunday, "why Bertrina ask me to pray for her?"
Minny say, "Rumor is you got some kind a power prayer, gets better results than just the regular variety."
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

"I slip off my flats and walk down the front porch steps, while Mother calls out for me to put my shoes back on, threatening ringworm, mosquito, encephalitis. The inevitability of death by no shoes. Death by no husband."
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

"Kindness don't have no boundaries."
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

"Mother says she doesn't need the medication anymore, that the only cure for cancer is having a daughter who won't cut her hair and wears dresses too high above the knee even on a Sunday, because how knows what tackiness I'd do to myself if she died."
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

"Look around, investigate, and write. Don't waste your time on the obvious things. Write about what disturbs you, particularly if it bothers no one else."
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

"But after Mr. Evers got shot a week ago, lot a colored folk is frustrated in this town. Especially the younger ones, who ain't built up a callus yet. "
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

"Ever afternoon, me and Baby Girl set in the. rocking chair before her nap. Ever afternoon, I tell her: You kind, you smart, you important. But she growing up and I know, soon, them few words ain't gone be enough."
― Kathryn stockett, The Help

"How tall are you, Constantine?" I asked, unable to hide my tears.
Constantine narrowed her eyes at me.
"How tall is you?"
"Five-eleven," I cried. "I'm already taller than the boys' basketball coach."
"Well, I'm five-thirteen, so quit feeling sorry for yourself."
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

"Who knew heartbreak would be so goddamn hot."
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

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