Цитаты из книги «The Help / Прислуга. Книга для чтения на английском языке»

I done raised seventeen kids in my lifetime.

She ain’t gone be no beauty queen.

she still say she ain’t gone do it.

Like a purebred angel standing in the front a the church.

I’d expected the stories to be sweet, glossy.

Lot a ailing, sick peoples in this town.”

Shame ain’t black, like dirt, like I always thought it was. Shame be the color of a new white uniform your mother ironed all night to pay for, white without a smudge or a speck a work-dirt on it.”

I loved that baby and he loved me

baby with hair fine as silk on a corn…”

I must a asked her a thousand times