Kathryn Stockett
Kathryn Stockett
Kathryn Stockett is an American novelist. She is known for her 2009 debut novel, The Help, which is about African-American maids working in white households in Jackson, Mississippi, during the 1960s...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
filled-up light blue
...out of the blue, he kissed me. Right in the middle of the Robert E. Lee Hotel Restaurant, he kissed me so slowly with an open mouth and every single thing in my body-my skin, my collarbone, the hollow backs of my knees, everything inside of me filled up with light.
kindness boundaries no-boundaries
All I'm saying is, kindness don't have no boundaries.
mean hurtful ugly
Ugly live up on the inside. Ugly be a hurtful, mean person.
names two wrinkles
Her nose wrinkle up cause now she got to remember to say she Mae Mobley Three, when her whole life she can remember, she been telling people she Mae Mobley Two. When you little, you only get asked two questions, what's your name and how old you is, so you better get em right.
challenges everyday pills
Down in the national news section, there's an article on a new pill, the 'Valium' they're calling it, 'to help women cope with everyday challenges.' God, I could use about ten of those little pills right now.
relationship break-up breakup
Stuart needs "space" and "time," as if this were physics and not a human relationship.
sorry infant im-sorry
I'm sorry, but were you dropped on your head as an infant?
sad depression long
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.
eye men light
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 to be growing before my eyes. He smelled like starch. Like pine. His nose wasn’t so pointy afterall. …And out of the blue, he kissed me. Right in the middle of the Robert E. Lee Hotel Restaurant, he kissed me so slowly with an open mouth and every single thing in my body-my skin, my collarbone, the hollow backs of my knees, everything inside of me filled up with light.
names two littles
When you little, you only get asked two questions, what’s your name and how old you is, so you better get em right.
children hate feet
The day your child says she hates you, and every child will go through the phase, it kicks like a foot in the stomach.
christian
And you call yourself a Christian,' were Hilly's words to me and I thought, God. When did I ever do that?
growing-up eye years
I look deep into her rich brown eyes and she look into mine. Law, she got old-soul eyes, like she done lived a thousand years. And I swear I see, down inside, the woman she gone grow up to be. She is tall and straight. She is proud. She got a better haircut. And she is remembering the words I put in her head. Remembering as a full-grown woman.
rights stories happens
....we ain't doing civil rights here. We just telling stories like they really happen.