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Kathryn Stockett

The Help

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  • ernestova13has quoted6 years ago
    Mississippi is like my mother. I am allowed to complain about her all I want, but God help the person who raises an ill word about her around me, unless she is their mother too.
  • ernestova13has quoted6 years ago
    “How many copies going to the white Jackson library?” Minny ask. “Zero?”

    I shake my head with a smile. “Three copies. Miss Skeeter told me on the phone this morning.”

    Even Minny look stunned. Just two months ago the white library started letting colored people in. I been in twice myself.
  • ernestova13has quoted6 years ago
    “I didn’t . . . mean it like that,” he starts again. “What I mean is, things are fine around here. Why would you want to go stirring up trouble?”

    I can tell, in his voice, he sincerely wants an answer from me. But how to explain it? He is a good man, Stuart. As much as I know that what I’ve done is right, I can still understand his confusion and doubt.

    “I’m not making trouble, Stuart. The trouble is already here.”
  • ernestova13has quoted6 years ago
    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.
  • ernestova13has quoted6 years ago
    “It is my job, Skeeter! You know well as I do, people won’t buy so much as a slice of pound cake from an organization that harbors racial integrationists!”

    “Hilly.” I just need to hear her say it. “Just who is all that pound cake money being raised for, anyway?”

    She rolls her eyes. “The Poor Starving Children of Africa?”

    I wait for her to catch the irony of this
  • ernestova13has quoted6 years ago
    a half-hearted woof
  • ernestova13has quoted6 years ago
    Miss Leefolt look around, blind and shy, so I point to the side door. “Pool that a way, ma’am.”

    She look grateful I know my way around so she don’t have to ask like poor folk.
  • ernestova13has quoted6 years ago
    Then I dust the shelves in the hunting room, vacuum the bear while he stares at me like I’m a snack. “Just you and me today,” I tell him. As usual he doesn’t say much.
  • ernestova13has quoted6 years ago
    I head down the steps to see if my mail-order copy of Catcher in the Rye is in the box. I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they must be good.
  • ernestova13has quoted6 years ago
    Over my nightgown, I put on one of Daddy’s old button-down shirts and slip out the front door. Mother is on the back porch with Pascagoula and Jameso while they shuck oysters.

    “You cannot leave a Negro and a Nigra together unchaperoned,” Mother’d whispered to me, a long time ago. “It’s not their fault, they just can’t help it.”
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