>>JUST FINISHED THIS BOOK

and absolutely LOVED it!!

Now I can't wait to see the movie!!  Hopefully it makes its way to Thermopolis soon...otherwise a road trip is in order.


Here are a few of my favorite quotes from the book...

"I always thought insanity would be a dark, bitter feeling, but it is drenching and delicious if you really roll around in it."  -Skeeter

"All I'm saying is, kindness don't have no boundaries."  -Aibileen

"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."  -Skeeter

"No one tells us, girls who don't go on dates, that remembering can be almost as good as what actually happens."  -Skeeter

"The first time I was ever called ugly, I was thirteen. It was a rich friend of my brother Carlton's over to shoot guns in the field.
'Why you crying, girl?' Constantine asked me in the kitchen.
I told her what the boy had called me, tears streaming down my face.
'Well? Is you?'
I blinked, paused my crying. 'Is I what?'
'Now you look a here, Egenia'-because Constantine was the only one who'd occasionally follow Mama's rule. 'Ugly live up on the inside. Ugly be a hurtful, mean person. Is you one a them peoples?'
'I don't know. I don't think so,' I sobbed.
Constantine sat down next to me, at the kitchen table. I heard the cracking of her swollen joints. She pressed her thumb hard in the palm of my hand, something we both knew meant Listen. Listen to me.
'Ever morning, until you dead in the ground, you gone have to make this decision.' Constantine was so close, I could see the blackness of her gums. 'You gone have to ask yourself, Am I gone believe what them fools say about me today?'
She kept her thumb pressed hard in my hand. I nodded that I understood. I was just smart enough to realize she meant white people. And even though I still felt miserable, and knew that I was, most likely, ugly, it was the first time she ever talked to me like I was something besides my mother's white child. 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."  -Skeeter

"I'm sorry, but were you dropped on your head as an infant?"  -Skeeter

"I give in and light another cigarette even though last night the surgeon general came on the television set and shook his finger at everybody, trying to convince us that smoking will kill us. But Mother once told me tongue kissing would turn me blind and I'm starting to think it's all just a big plot between the surgeon general and Mother to make sure no one ever has any fun."  -Skeeter

"...My sister Doreena who never lifted a royal finger growing up because she had the heart defect that we later found out was a fly on the X-ray machine. "   -Minnie

"Mother calls up the stairs to ask what in the world I'm typing up there all day and I holler down, 'Just typing up some notes from the Bible study. Just writing down all the things I love about Jesus."  -Skeeter

"Bosoms are for bedrooms and breastfeeding.  Not for occasions with dignity."  -Eleanor Causwell talking about Miss Celia.


Did you read The Help?  Did you love it?