I was surprise to see the world didn't stop just cause my boy did.

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.

You is kind. You is smart. You is important.

...and that's when I get to wondering, what would happen if I told her she something good, ever day?

Who knew paper and ink could be so vicious

All I'm saying is, kindness don't have no boundaries.

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.

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.

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.

No one tells us, girls who don't go on dates, that remembering can be almost as good as what actually happens.

Oh my beloved life, wait a bit at my window, go slowly, and let me enjoy it to the fullest.

The Professor gripped his axe, having pulled it, with some difficulty, from the boy's head.

You have to get busy with taking consistent actions instead of always living in fears and doubting your abilities. There is absolutely nothing less about you, so why dare to settle for less?

Some people survived the neolithic age by being brave, others by being cowardly and smart.

I don't want to be that guy mumbling into his drink at a bar.

Every desire of your body is holy; Every desire of your body is Holy.

We recognise that Soul is eternal; It has no beginning or ending. Therefore, when a person leaves his physical body, he continues to exist, usually on a higher plane of consciousness.

You're not going to get anything politically correct out of me.

Poetry, like love, is something we never truly say goodbye to.

How come every other organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy, except the brain?