“ Today I'm on tell you bout a man from outer space." She just loves hearing about peoples from outer space. Her favorite show on the tee-vee is My Favorite Martian, I pull on my antennae hats I shaped… 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
“ The first time I was ever called ugly, I was thirteen. It was a rich friend of my brother Carlton's over to shoot guns in the field.'Why you crying, girl?' Constantine asked me in the kitchen.I told h… Kathryn Stockett
“ No one tells us, girls who don't go on dates, that remembering can be almost as good as what actually happens. Kathryn Stockett
“ I haven’t had the chance to look at too many men’s faces up close. And I noticed how his skin was thicker than mine, and a gorgeous shade of toast. The stiff blond hairs on his cheeks and chin seemed… Kathryn Stockett
“ That was the day my whole world went black. Air looked black. Sun looked black. I laid up in bed and stared at the black walls of my house….Took three months before I even looked out the window, see t… Kathryn Stockett
“ Stuart needs "space" and "time," as if this were physics and not a human relationship. Kathryn Stockett
“ It weren’t too loo long before I seen something in me, had changed. A bitter seed was planted inside of me. And I just didn’t feel so, accepting, anymore. Kathryn Stockett
“ 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. Kathryn Stockett
“ We look at each other a second. " I'm tired of the rules," I say. Aibileen chuckles and looks out the window. I realise how thin this revelation must sound to her. Kathryn Stockett
“ We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought. Kathryn Stockett
“ Once upon a time they was two girls," I say. "one girl had black skin, one girl had white."Mae Mobley look up at me. She listening."Little colored girl say to little white girl, 'How come your skin be… Kathryn Stockett
“ He needs "space" and "time," as if this were physics and not a human relationship. Kathryn Stockett
“ ...and that's when I get to wondering, what would happen if I told her she something good, ever day? Kathryn Stockett
“ Truth.It feels cool, like water washing over my sticky-hot body. Cooling a heat that's been burning me up all my life.Truth, I say inside my head again, just for that feeling. Kathryn Stockett
