75 quotes found
Novelist · American
American novelist
“Rich folk don't try so hard”
“Kindness don't have no boundaries.”
“Who knew paper and ink could be so vicious”
“That's what I love about Aibileen, she can take the most complicated things in life and wrap them up so small and simple, they'll fit right in your pocket.”
“it always sound scarier when a hollerer talk soft.”
“You is kind. You is smart. You is important.”
“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.”
“...and that's when I get to wondering, what would happen if I told her she something good, ever day?”
“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...”
“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.”
“We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought.”
“I used to believe in 'em [lines]. 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." - Aibileen”
“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.”
“It werent too loo long before I seen something in me, had changed. A bitter seed was planted inside of me. And I just didnt feel so, accepting, anymore.”
“He needs "space" and "time," as if this were physics and not a human relationship.”
“But I do not know what to tell myself. Stuart needs "space" and "time," as if this were physics and not a human relationship.”
“Cause that's the way prayer do. It's like electricity, it keeps things going.”
“No one tells us, girls who don't go on dates, that remembering can be almost as good as what actually happens.”
“Stuart needs "space" and "time," as if this were physics and not a human relationship.”
“All I'm saying is, kindness don't have no boundaries.”
