Kathryn Stockett Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Kathryn Stockett
Kathryn Stockett Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I think if you're president, color goes away completely: you're president and it doesn't matter if you're white, green or purple.
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.
But Lou Anne, she understood the point of the book before she even read it. The one who was missing the point this time was me.
It's Tuesday, change-the-damn-sheets day. If I don't do it today, that makes Wednesday change-the-damn-sheets day too.
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.
And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.
The day your child says she hates you, and every child will go through the phase, it kicks like a foot in the stomach.
That's what I want them to know. Saying thank you, when you really mean it, when you remember what someone done for you
Got to be the worst place in the world, inside a oven. You in here, you either cleaning or you getting cooked.
I've never been happier in my whole life.
I leave it at that. Underneath all that happy, she sure doesn't look happy.
I leave it at that. Underneath all that happy, she sure doesn't look happy.
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.
No one tells us, girls who don't go on dates, that remembering can be almost as good as what actually happens.
Why? Why are you hitting me?"
He leaned down and looked me right in the face.
"If I didn't hit you Minny, who knows what you become.
He leaned down and looked me right in the face.
"If I didn't hit you Minny, who knows what you become.
You're the smartest one in the class, Aibileen," she say. "And the only way you're going to keep sharp is to read and write every day.
Here's to new beginnings, Stuart says and raises his bourbon. I nod, sort of wanting to tell him that all beginnings are new.
Lord, I never seen blue hair on a black woman before or since. Leroy say you look like a cracker from outer space.
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.
She got a confused, disgusted look on her face, like she done salted her coffee instead a sugared it.
Be the prettiest book I ever seen. The cover is pale blue, color a the sky. And a big white bird - a peace dove - spreads its wings from end to end.
Which means I have to lie to her on a daily basis, which is in itself enjoyable but a little degrading at the same time
I set her on her wooden baby seat so her little hiney don't fall in and soon as I turn my back, she off that pot running.
Mississippi and the world is two different places,' the Deacon say and we all nod cause ain't it the truth.
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.
I always thought insanity would be a dark, bitter feeling, but it is drenching and delicious if you really roll around in it.
When you little, you only get asked two questions, what's your name and how old you is, so you better get em right.
And you call yourself a Christian,' were Hilly's words to me and I thought, God. When did I ever do that?
If I'd played Mammy, I'd of told Scarlett to stick those green draperies up her white little pooper. Make her own damn man-catching dress. -Minny
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.
Sometimes people get a burst of strength. It's a gift from God, I guess. So they can finish their business.
I never once heard her say she gone leave Leroy, and Minny don't say things twice. When she do things, they done the first time.
She's like a Philistine on a Sunday, the way she won't take but so many steps a day. Except every day's Sunday around here.
I've been dropped off in a place I do not belong anymore. Certainly not here with Mother and Daddy, ...
The first book you write because of the way it makes you feel. The second one you can't help but wonder how it's going to make the reader feel.
Sure, I dreamed of football dates, buy my real dream was that one day I would write something that people would actually read