The Help
Quotes from the Book
How could you ever feel comfortable if no matter where you went you felt like you belonged someplace else?
And I was reminded once again how a song really can change the world.
If it looks like a duck and quacks likes a duck, it's a duck, right?
Wen grinned and I felt a warm glow and an odd dizzy sensation. And then I remembered something my dad once wrote me about falling in love. He said the phrase was apt because falling is exactly what it can feel like, as if you've finally allowed yourself to let go of some safety bar you didn't even know you were clinging to, and suddenly you find yourself tumbling towards the exciting unknown.
The thing is, my father has about as much rhythm as a drunken octopus […]
She was like having our own nanny, the Sex Nanny Sent By Satan.
Replaying her words in my head, I could feel my face redden again. I wanted to flush my head down the toilet.
Just because you never look at me doesn't mean I'm not here.
...every now and then I watched him beam at Olivia. He obviously adored her. And I realized that meeting her father made me look at Olivia differently. She was somebody's little girl.
It felt like one of those perfect moments where everything comes together. But like I said, I don't believe in accidents. Even if this strange, musical moment, the final result of a long chain of unlikely events, never came to anything else, it was meant to be. Something new had been born.
To friends, family, food and taking exams in comfortable, quiet areas without distractions or time restrictions!
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