Kathryn Stockett Short Quotes

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Frying chicken always makes me feel a little better about life.

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I was surprise to see the world didn't stop just cause my boy did.

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If singing was a color, it would've been the color of that chocolate.

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Write about what disturbs you, particularly if it bothers no one else.

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

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I reckon that's the risk you run, letting somebody else raise you chilluns.

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Because ain't that white people for you, wondering if they are happy enough.

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We ain't doing civil rights here. We just telling stories like they really happen.

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

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This woman talk like she from so deep in the country she got corn growing in her shoes.

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I wait on white ladies who walk right out the bedroom wearing nothing but they personality...

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And that's when I get to wondering, what would happen if I told her she something good, ever day?

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I may not remember my name or what country I live in, but you and that pie is something I will never forget.

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Got to be the worst place in the world, inside a oven. You in here, you either cleaning or you getting cooked.

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Lord, I never seen blue hair on a black woman before or since. Leroy say you look like a cracker from outer space.

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

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The day your child says she hates you, and every child will go through the phase, it kicks like a foot in the stomach.

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I wash my hands, wonder how an awful day could turn even worse. It seems like at some point you'd just run out of awful.

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I always thought insanity would be a dark, bitter feeling, but it is drenching and delicious if you really roll around in it.

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Here's to new beginnings," Stuart says and raises his bourbon. I nod, sort of wanting to tell him that all beginnings are new.

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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.

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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.

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I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they must be good.

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Wasn't that the point of the book? For women to realize, We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought.

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Miss Leefolt sigh, hang up the phone like she just don't know how her brain gone operate without Miss Hilly coming over to push the Think buttons.

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My sister Doreena who never lifted a royal finger growing up because she had the heart defect that we later found out was a fly on the X-ray machine.

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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.

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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.

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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 treat you a little differently than before.

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Ever morning, until you dead in the ground, you gone have to make this decision. You gone have to ask yourself, "Am I gone believe what them fools say about me today?

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