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Even though I didn't think I'd like empathy it kind of creeps up on you and makes you feel all warm and glowy inside. I don't think I want to go back to life without empathy.


Kathryn Erskine

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KATHRYN LASKY Millennials tend to appreciate regular feedback because they want to feel that their work matters an...
KATHRYN MINSHEW They did not hear Grimble, as he lay dying, chant in the true voice of the Boreal Owl, in tones like...
KATHRYN LASKY How easily such a thing can become a mania, how the most normal and sensible of women once this pass...
KATHRYN HURN Babies love fat.
KATHRYN STOCKETT And she is remembering the words I put in her head...."You is kind," she say, "you is smart. You is ...
KATHRYN STOCKETT Essendo alla ricerca di un futuro per me stessa, mi piace sapere le possibilità degli altri.
KATHRYN STOCKETT There is nothing else to say, so I just murmur, "I know. Thank you for the chance." And I add, "Merr...
KATHRYN STOCKETT —Si alguna mujé blanca lee algún día mi historia, sólo quiero que recuerde esto: que dar las g...
KATHRYN STOCKETT Find I can get my point across a lot better writing them down
KATHRYN STOCKETT I slip off my flats and walk down the front porch steps, while Mother calls out for me to put my sho...
KATHRYN STOCKETT Ever afternoon, me and Baby Girl set in the. rocking chair before her nap. Ever afternoon, I tell he...
KATHRYN STOCKETT But I do not know what to tell myself. Stuart needs "space" and "time," as if this were physics and ...
KATHRYN STOCKETT If chocolate was a sound, it would've been Constantine's voice singing. If singing was a color, it w...
KATHRYN STOCKETT The point is, I can’t tell you how to succeed. But I can tell you how not to: Give in to the shame...
KATHRYN STOCKETT And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And s...
KATHRYN STOCKETT Bosoms are for bedrooms and breastfeeding.
KATHRYN STOCKETT And if your friends make fun of you for chasing your dream, remember—just lie.
KATHRYN STOCKETT ...out of the blue, he kissed me. Right in the middle of the Robert E. Lee Hotel Restaurant, he kiss...
KATHRYN STOCKETT Mississippi is like my mother. I am allowed to complain about her all I want, but God help the perso...
KATHRYN STOCKETT We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought.
KATHRYN STOCKETT She's wearing a tight red sweater and a red skirt and enough makeup to scare a hooker.
KATHRYN STOCKETT It seems like at some point you'd run out of awful.
KATHRYN STOCKETT Frying chicken always makes me feel a little better about life.
KATHRYN STOCKETT That was the day my whole world went black. Air looked black. Sun looked black. I laid up in bed and...
KATHRYN STOCKETT Truth.
It feels cool, like water washing over my sticky-hot body. Cooling a heat that's been bu...
KATHRYN STOCKETT ...and that's when I get to wondering, what would happen if I told her she something good, ever day?
KATHRYN STOCKETT It weren’t too loo long before I seen something in me, had changed. A bitter seed was planted insi...
KATHRYN STOCKETT The first time I was ever called ugly, I was thirteen. It was a rich friend of my brother Carlton's ...
KATHRYN STOCKETT I'd cry, if only I had the time to do it.
KATHRYN STOCKETT Sorry is the fool who ever underestimates my mother.
KATHRYN STOCKETT That's the way prayer do. It's like electricity, it keeps things going.
KATHRYN STOCKETT