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Kathryn Stockett
“That's the way prayer do. It's like electricity, it keeps things going.”
Kathryn Stockett, The Help

Kathryn Stockett
“it always sound scarier when a hollerer talk soft.”
Kathryn Stockett, The Help

Kathryn Stockett
“And if your friends make fun of you for chasing your dream, remember鈥攋ust lie.”
Kathryn Stockett

Kathryn Stockett
“Bosoms are for bedrooms and breastfeeding.”
kathryn stockett, The Help

Kathryn Stockett
“And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.”
Kathryn Stockett, The Help

Kathryn Stockett
“The point is, I can鈥檛 tell you how to succeed. But I can tell you how not to: Give in to the shame of being rejected and put your manuscript鈥攐r painting, song, voice, dance moves, [insert passion here]鈥攊n the coffin that is your bedside drawer and close it for good. I guarantee you that it won鈥檛 take you anywhere. Or you could do what this writer did: Give in to your obsession instead.”
Kathryn Stockett

Kathryn Stockett
“If chocolate was a sound, it would've been Constantine's voice singing. If singing was a color, it would've been the color of that chocolate.”
Kathryn Stockett

Kathryn Stockett
“But I do not know what to tell myself. Stuart needs "space" and "time," as if this were physics and not a human relationship.”
Kathryn Stockett

Kathryn Stockett
“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

Kathryn Stockett
“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

Kathryn Stockett
“Find I can get my point across a lot better writing them down”
Kathryn Stockett, The Help

Kathryn Stockett
“鈥擲i alguna muj茅 blanca lee alg煤n d铆a mi historia, s贸lo quiero que recuerde esto: que dar las grasias de coraz贸n cuando piensas en to lo que alguien ha hecho por ti 鈥攎ueve la cabeza y mira la mesa llena de ara帽azos鈥�, es algo mu bonito.”
Kathryn Stockett, The Help

Kathryn Stockett
“You is good, You is smart, You is important.”
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Kathryn Stockett
“Essendo alla ricerca di un futuro per me stessa, mi piace sapere le possibilit脿 degli altri.”
Kathryn Stockett

“Don't you let him cheapen you.”
Kathyrn Stockett

Kathryn Stockett
“There is nothing else to say, so I just murmur, "I know. Thank you for the chance." And I add, "Merry Christmas, Missus Stein."
"We call it Hanukkah, but thank you, Miss Phelan.”
Kathryn Stockett, The Help

Kathryn Stockett
“And she is remembering the words I put in her head...."You is kind," she say, "you is smart. You is important.”
Kathryn Stockett, Paix : l'exposition

“When he has disappeared, Mother clears her throat. I don't turn around and look at her in the rocking chair. I don't want her to see the disappointment in my face that he's gone.
"Go ahead, Mother," I finally mutter. "Say what you want to say."
"Don't you let him cheapen you."
I look back at her, eye her suspiciously, even though she is so frail under the wool blanket. Sorry is the fool who ever underestimates my mother.
"If Stuart doesn't know how intelligent and kind I raised you to be, he can march straight on back to State Street." She narrows her eyes at the winter land. "Frankly, I don't care much for Stuart. He doesn't know how lucky he was to have you.”
Kathyrn Stockett

Kathryn Stockett
“Shame ain鈥檛 black, Like dirt, like I always thought it was. Shame be the color of the new white uniform your mother ironed all night to pay for, white without a smudge or a speck of work dirt on it.”
Kathryn Stockett, The Help

Kathryn Stockett
“White people been representing colored opinion since the beginning a time.”
Kathryn Stockett, The Help

Kathryn Stockett
“Minny's hands is in fists. She gritting her teeth.
"Shot him right in front a his children, Aibileen."

"We gone pray for the Everses, we gone pray for Myrlie..."
but it just sound so empty, so I stop.”
Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“I sat in the study parlor and wrote for hours-mostly term papers but also short stories, bad poetry, episodes of Dr. Kildare, Pall Mall jingles, letters of complaint, ransom notes, love letters to boys I'd seen in class but hadn't the nerve to speak to, all of which I never mailed. Sure, I dreamed of having football dates, but my real dream was that one day I would write something that people would actually read.”
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“I used to dash by, feeling like a dartboard, a big red bull's-eye that Mother pinged darts at.”
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“They ain鈥檛 rich folk, that I know. Rich folk don鈥檛 try so hard.”
Kathyrn Stockett