...out of the blue, he kissed me. Right in the middle of the Robert E. Lee Hotel Restaurant, 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 of me filled up with light.

She dumb.” I sigh. “But she ain’t stupid.

I've become one of those people who prowl around at night in their cars. God, I am the town's Boo Radley, just like in To Kill A Mockingbird.

It seems like at some point you'd run out of awful.

And you call yourself a Christian,' were Hilly's words to me and I thought, God. When did I ever do that?

Her nose wrinkle up cause now she got to remember to say she Mae Mobley Three, when her whole life she can remember, she been telling people she Mae Mobley Two. When you little, you only get asked two questions, what's your name and how old you is, so you better get em right.

Great books give you a feeling that you miss all day, until you finally get to crawl back inside those pages again.