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“Ever morning, until you dead in the ground, you gone have to make this decision. You gone have to ask yourself, "Am I gone believe what them fools say about me today?”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“All I'm saying is, kindness don't have no boundaries.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“Stuart needs "space" and "time," as if this were physics and not a human relationship.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“I'd cry, if only I had the time to do it.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“Sorry is the fool who ever underestimates my mother.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“Womens, they ain't like men. A woman ain't gone beat you with a stick. Miss Hilly wouldn't pull no pistol on me. Miss Leefolt wouldn't come burn my house down. No, white womens like to keep they hands clean. They got a shiny little set of tools they use, sharp as witches' fingernails, tidy and laid out neat, like the picks on a dentist tray. They gone take they time with em.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“That's all a grit is, a vehicle. For whatever it is you rather be eating.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“I have decided not to die.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“Bosoms, are for bedrooms and breastfeeding. Not for occasions with dignity.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“We aren’t saints. When we die, nobody mourns. That’s the only way this ends, for all of us.”
― Margaret Stohl, Black Widow: Forever Red

“...Folks, there's not much on this table to eat," he said. "When you give it to one person, you have a chance to make a friend. When you divide it between two people, you're liable to make two enemies...”
― Walter Dean Myers, Sunrise Over Fallujah

“How do you keep your guys safe?" Coles asked. "By killing everything that ain't smiling, and half of everything that is," the marine captain answered.”
― Walter Dean Myers, Sunrise Over Fallujah

“I asked myself what did Adam know of paradise?" said the sheik, who told us to call him Hamid. "He woke up one day and found himself in the Holy Garden and he had never known anything else. That's what I think has happened to America. You are a young people. What have you known but the paradise of peace and security and wealth?”
― Walter Dean Myers, Sunrise Over Fallujah

“That scolding I gave her was probably just what she needed, and I daresay it'll last for a month." "I'm glad you're pleased," answered Jane. "A cringing worm is what you want, not a bright, smiling child.”
― Eric Wiggin

“That scolding I gave her was probably just what she needed, and I daresay it'll last for a month." "I'm glad you're pleased," answered Jane. "A cringing worm is what you want, not a bright, smiling child.”
― Eric E. Wiggin, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

“Enthusiasm gives birth to enthusiasm, and wit and talent kindles wit and talent”
― Eric E. Wiggin, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

“Its so hard to talk when you want to kill yourself. That's above and beyond everything else, and it's not a mental complaint-it's a physical thing, like it's physically hard to open your mouth and make the words come out. They don't come out smooth and in conjunction with your brain the way normal people's words do; they come out in chunks as if from a crushed-ice dispenser; you stumble on them as they gather behind your lower lip. So you just keep quiet.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“I'll teach you how to defend yourself, how to maim a man. We can use Po as a model.'

'Wonderful,' Po said. 'It's quite boring really, the way you beat me to death with your hands and feet, Katsa. It'll be refreshing to have you come at me with a knife.”
― Kristin Cashore, Graceling

“She knew he was angry, but she couldn't stop laughing. "Forgive me, Po. I was only trying to get your attention."

"And I suppose it never occurs to you to start small. If I told you my roof needed rebuilding, you'd start by knocking down the house.”
― Kristin Cashore, Graceling

“It seems better to me for a child to have these skills and never use them, than not have them and one day need them," she said.”
― Kristin Cashore, Graceling

“It's not reasonable to love people who are only going to die," she said.
Nash thought about that for a moment, stroking Small's neck with great deliberation, as if the fate of the Dells depended on that smooth, careful movement.
"I have two responses to that," He said at last. "First, everyone is going to die. Second, love is stupid. It has nothing to do with reason. You love whomever you love. Against all reason I loved my father." He looked at her keenly. "Did you love yours?"
"Yes," she whispered.
He stroked Small's nose. "I love you," he said, "even knowing you'll never have me. And I love my brother, more than I ever realized before you came along. You can't help whom you love, Lady. Nor can you know what it's liable to cause you to do.”
― Kristin Cashore, Fire

“There will be no yelling at people who are bleeding themselves to unconsciousness.”
― Kristin Cashore, Fire

“But that's how memory works," Bitterblue said quietly. "Things disappear without your permission, then come back again without your permission." And sometimes they came back incomplete and warped.”
― Kristin Cashore, Bitterblue

“Find something useful to do with your morning,' she thought to him as she neared her chambers. 'Do something heroic in front of an audience. Knock a child into a river while no one's looking and then rescue him.”
― Kristin Cashore, Bitterblue

“Bacon improved things dramatically.”
― Kristin Cashore, Bitterblue

“I wonder if it’s meant to be punishment for something one can’t forgive oneself for. Or an external expression, Lady Queen, of an internal pain? Or perhaps it’s a way to realize that you actually do want to stay alive.” “Don’t talk about it as if it’s a life-affirming thing,” Bitterblue whispered, furious. Madlen studied her own hands, which were large, strong, and, Bitterblue knew, infinitely gentle. “It’s a relief to me, Lady Queen, that in your own pain, you take no interest in hurting yourself.” “Why would I?” Bitterblue flared. “Why should I? It’s foolish. I would like to kick the people who do it.” “That would, perhaps, be redundant, Lady Queen.”
― Kristin Cashore, Bitterblue

“How typical of this Court for everyone else to act mad and then, when I’ve behaved in a perfectly reasonable manner, compel me to feel as if I were the mad one.”
― Kristin Cashore, Bitterblue

“Madlen. Would a person ever cut himself," she said, "on purpose?"
...
Then she paused, looking quite grim. "There are no limits to the ways people you think you know can astonish you. I can't explain the practice to you, Lady Queen. I wonder if it's meant to be punishment for something one can't forgive oneself for. Or an external expression, Lady Queen, of an internal pain? Or perhaps it's a way to realize that you actually do want to say alive.”
― Kristin Cashore, Bitterblue