What you learn today?" I ask even though she ain't in real school, just the pretend kind. Other day, when I ask her, she say, "Pilgrims. They came over and nothing would grow so they ate the Indians."
Now knew them Pilgrims didn't eat no Indians. But that ain't the point.
I have decided not to die.
Kathryn StockettShe hug me around my neck, say, "You're righter than Miss Taylor." I tear up then. My cup is spilling over. Those is new words to me.
Kathryn StockettI tucked this away, afraid to admit how good it was to hear it.
Kathryn StockettHere's to new beginnings," Stuart says and raises his bourbon.
I nod, sort of wanting to tell him that all beginnings are new.
But Lou Anne, she understood the point of the book before she even read it. The one who was missing the point this time was me.
Kathryn StockettBaby Girl," I say. "I need you remember everything I told you. Do you remember what I told you?"
She still crying steady, but the hiccups are gone. "To wipe my bottom good when I'm done?"
"No, baby, the other one. About who you are.
Mother says she doesn't need the medication anymore, that the only cure for cancer is having a daughter who won't cut her hair and wears dresses too high above the knee even on a Sunday, because how knows what tackiness I'd do to myself if she died.
Kathryn StockettCause that's the way prayer do. It's like electricity, it keeps things going.
Kathryn StockettNo, white women like to keep their hands clean. They got a shiny little set a tools they use, sharp as witches' fingernails, tidy and laid out neat, like the picks on a dentist tray. They gonna take they time with em.
Kathryn StockettStichwörter: makes-me-think kindle-quotes
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