20 Quotes from The Calamity Club book by Kathryn Stockett

Hello and Welcome. This page is a collection of 20 quotes from The Calamity Club book by Kathryn Stockett that I underlined while reading the book. I hope you will like these quotes too.

By the way, I am Deepak Kundu, an avid book reader, quotes collector and blogger.

The Calamity Club Quotes

  • The state of Mississippi was full of nothing but cotton, hypocrites, and horseshit, and the best thing a Mississippian could do was get the hell out.
  • Before you can learn to be a good liar, you've got to learn how to spot a liar first. It's all about how a person looks, not what the person says. A man will touch his nose when he tells a lie. If he is right-handed, he will look left. If he's left-handed, he'll look right. A woman will look you straight in the eye, but she will touch her hair or her buttons. She'll blink too much or laugh when it's not funny or nod when she denies the truth. The trick to lying is to avoid doing any of those tells.
  • Nothing worse than showing up somewhere uninvited.
  • All I'm asking for is a decent view, some hard candies, and something to damn read. Is that too much to ask for in life?
  • If we can ever manage to save so much as a dime in this world, we are packing up and heading to California.
  • You ask any kid in this world and they will tell you there is nothing like a bunch of cute puppies to entertain you for hours.
  • Sometimes the crime is worth the punishment.
  • Here is what I have learned in life: You cannot count on people. Look away and poof, they are gone, even if they planned to cut that hair of yours. Or said you were sisters and they would write you a secret letter. Or wanted something better for you than factory work.
  • There were Christian people and there were good people but the two didn't necessarily always overlap.
  • I'd only ever read about divorces in the newspaper. I'd never known anybody that'd gotten one before. Where I was from, a husband died or went out to buy chewing tobacco and never came home. Those were the choices. But a divorce, it sounded so adult , sort of grimy.
  • If you want to make money, you've got to take risks. That and never let them know you're desperate.
  • I've lived my whole life with high expectations. I have the highest of hopes every day and I plan on staying that way.
  • It just so happens some things are worth taking a chance for. Not that you'd know that, the way you live your life.
  • The help always knows, more than the best friend, the minister, or even the husband.
  • Don't you know waking a prostitute at nine in the morning's like waking a ordinary up at two a.m.
  • I can spot a upset woman a mile away. Believe me, I have known some.
  • Taking liquor is a sin. It rots a personality […] I learned that some it turns lazy, some it turns crude, some it turns sad, but every one of them it turns STUPID.
  • I guess that is about the best you can ask for in life. To find the person who will keep the dogs from getting you.
  • There is no feeling lonelier than knowing the people you love won't even remember your name soon.
  • It does not matter how many exotic assorted colors you got to choose from, if you take the best ones away, the ones that made sense, all you got is a big fancy box of crazy crayons you can hardly use.