Kathryn Stockett, The Help
20 quotes
"He needs "space" and "time," as if this were physics and not a human relationship."
"We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought."
"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."
"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."
"I was surprise to see the world didn't stop just cause my boy did."
"Who knew paper and ink could be so vicious"
"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."
"Cause that's the way prayer do. It's like electricity, it keeps things going."
"Stuart needs "space" and "time," as if this were physics and not a human relationship."
"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 the world still there. I was surprised to see the world didn’t stop."
"No one tells us, girls who don't go on dates, that remembering can be almost as good as what actually happens."
"All I'm saying is, kindness don't have no boundaries."
"Kindness don't have no boundaries."
"All my life I'd been told what to believe about politics, coloreds, being a girl. But with Constantine's thumb pressed in my hand, I realized I actually had a choice in what I could believe."
"Hilly raises her voice about three octaves higher when she talks to coloured people. Elizabeth smiles like she's talking to a child, although certainly not her own. I am starting to notice things."
"I shake my head at my friend. “Not only is they lines, but you know good as I do where them lines be drawn.” Aibileen shakes her head. “I used to believe in em. I don’t anymore. They in our heads. People like Miss Hilly is always trying to make us believe they there. But they ain’t."
"You're gon' have to say to your self, am I gon' believe what them fools say about me today?"
"Rich folk don't try so hard"
"I come home that morning, after I been fired, and stood outside my house with my new work shoes on. The shoes my mama paid a month's worth a light bill for. 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."
"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."