"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."
- Kathryn Stockett
"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."
"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."
"...and that's when I get to wondering, what would happen if I told her she something good, ever day?"
"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."
"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..."
"We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought."