Kathryn Stockett Quotes

Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more.

I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed.

I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?

When I first started coaching, one of the worst things that I think I heard was 'It will be O.K.' I would wonder, 'How the hell is it going to be O.K.?' The worst word in the English language is 'hope.'

Disappointment is a sticky one, because no one can steal contentment, joy, gratitude, or peace - we have to give it away.

We all get discouraged.

I was just tired of losing... Life was passing me by.

I'm so tired of running.

I've lost a lot. I'm tired of it. It's not fun.

False hope really makes you cynical.

False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment , anger and hopelessness.

You should despair and run away.

I wash my hands, wonder how an awful day could turn even worse. It seems like at some point you'd just run out of awful.

Today is the sort of day where the sun only comes up to humiliate you.

Mr. Lincoln had no hope, and no faith, in the usual acceptation of those words.

Oh God, what's wrong with me? Why does nothing ever work out?

To be honest I'm not going to sell dreams like everybody else does and say, "Sure, it can be changed." I don't want to seem like a pessimist, but nothing's getting better.

After all, there is nothing but failure.

Sometimes I feel that life has passed me by... Do you ever feel that way, Charlie Brown?" "I feel that it has knocked me down and walked all over me!

I've never asked for a happy ending

I could happily lie down and die sometimes.

I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.

You try to make the world a better place and what does it get you? I mean, Christ, how the hell does one man stand a chance against four billion assholes?

Despair is the greatest of our errors.