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Great books give you a feeling that you miss all day, until you finally get to crawl back inside those pages again.
Kathryn Stockett
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Kathryn Stockett
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 1
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I'm sorry, but were you dropped on your head as an infant?
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I listened wide-eyed, stupid. Glowing by her voice in the dim light. If chocolate was a sound, it would've been Constantine's voice singing. If singing was a color, it would've been the color of that chocolate.
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She dumb.” I sigh. “But she ain’t stupid.
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Im a Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve.
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Only three things them ladies talk about: they kids, they clothes, and they friends. I hear the word Kennedy, I know they ain’t discussing no politic. They talking about what Miss Jackie done wore on the tee-vee.
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I intend to stay on her like hair on soap.
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...and that's when I get to wondering, what would happen if I told her she something good, ever day?
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