How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
Problem is, much as I love the Lord, churchgoing man never do all that much for me. Kind a man I like ain't the kind that stays around after he done spending all you money. (2.124)
Aibileen has romantic dreams, but feels safer focusing on her prayers and her work.
Quote #2
I already had the rope tied when Minny found it. […] I don't know if I's gonna use it […]. Minny, though, she don't ask no questions about it, just pull it out from under the bed, put it in the can, take it to the street. (2.190)
When Aibileen considers suicide after Treelore's death, Minny shows her love for Aibileen by throwing out the noose.
Quote #3
"Hi, Aibee. I love you, Aibee," and I feel a tickly soft feeling, soft like the flap of butterfly wings, watching her play out there. (7.26)
Mae Mobley's love for Aibileen is touching, and much deserved.
Quote #4
"Your coat smells like –" He leans down and sniffs it, grimacing. "Fertilizer." (9.93)
Stuart's initial pickup line doesn't impress Skeeter much.
Quote #5
[…] he kissed me so slowly with an open mouth and every single thing in my body – my skin, my collarbone, the hollow backs of my knees, everything inside me filled up with light. (13.27)
Looks like Skeeter's gotten over Stuart's fertilizer faux pas.
Quote #6
One thing I got to say about Miss Hilly, she love her children. […] That kind of love always make me want to cry. Even when it going to Miss Hilly. (14.29)
Hilly's sole redeeming quality seems to be her love for her children, as Aibileen observes. This is a marked contrast to Elizabeth's treatment of Mae Mobley.
Quote #7
"Yes'm. He tell me not to tell you so you go right on thinking he proud a you. He love you so much, Miss Celia. I seen it on his face how much." (18.78)
Minny works hard to convince Celia that her husband, Johnny, loves her for herself, not for how many babies she might produce or how well she fits into high society.
Quote #8
There is undisguised hate for white woman, there is inexplicable love. (19.223)
Skeeter discovers that the relationships between the help and their employers are anything but simple.
Quote #9
Who knew heartbreak would be so goddamn hot? (21.20)
This is Skeeter after her first breakup with Stuart, before their temporary reconciliation.
Quote #10
The more I look, the more I start to understand what's going on here. I don't know why I'm just now getting this. Minny made us put that pie story in to protect us. Not to protect herself, but to protect me and the other maids. (34.36)
It's not often that somebody can show love and hate in the same moment by pooping in a pie and then writing about it.