312 Quotes by Kathryn Stockett


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    He let out a long sorry sigh and I love that look on his face, that disappointment. I understand now why girls resist,just for that sweet look of regret....

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    Oh, it was delicious to have someone to keep secrets with. If I'd had a sister or a brother closer in age, I guessed that's what it would be like. But it wasn't just smoking or skirting around Mother. It was having someone look at you after your mother has nearly fretted herself to death because you are freakishly tall and frizzy and odd. Someone whose eyes simply said, without words, You are fine with me.

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    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.

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    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.

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    Shame ain’t 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.

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    Боже, вие… вие го повалихте… — казвам аз, но едно гласче в главата ми ме пита съвсем спокойно, все едно си пием чая, „Това наистина ли се случва?“ Нима бяла жена пребива бял мъж, за да спаси мен? Или онзи така ми е отвинтил главата, че сега лежа мъртва на земята…

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    Сега няма грим по лицето, косата й не е напръскана с лак за коса, нощницата й прилича на стара рокля от прерията. Поема си дълбоко въздух през носа и аз я виждам. Виждам селското момиче, което е била преди десет години. Била е силна. Не е оставяла никой да се задява с нея.

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    А всеки път, когато госпожа Силия загаря боба, се опитвам да призова самообладанието, от което, кълнеше се майка ми, не притежавам и грам.

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