When you are in the middle of a story it isn’t a story at all, but only a confusion;
“All my life I'd been told what to believe about politics, coloreds, being a girl. But with Constantine's thumb pressed in my hand, I realized I actually had a choice in what I could believe.”
― The Help
― The Help
“How do you just stop being terrified of getting left behind and ending up by yourself forever and not meaning anything to the world?”
― An Abundance of Katherines
― An Abundance of Katherines
“You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.”
― An Abundance of Katherines
― An Abundance of Katherines
“I want to yell so loud that Baby Girl can hear me that dirty ain't a color, disease ain't the Negro side a town. I want to stop that moment from coming - and it come in ever white child's life - when they start to think that colored folks ain't as good as whites. ... I pray that wasn't her moment, Pray I still got time.”
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“And that's how it is in real life too. You can love someone and still know the future you'd have with them wouldn't work for you, or for them, or maybe even for both of you.”
― People We Meet on Vacation
― People We Meet on Vacation
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