Characterization in "The Secret Life of Bees"

Rosaleen: “Rosaleen worked for us since my mother died.” (p.2)
“You’d put his brain in a bird, and the bird would fly backward” (p. 12)
“There is worse things in the house than chicken sh*t” (p. 11)

T. Ray: “He didn’t believe in slumber parties, or sock hops, which wasn’t a big concern as I never got invited to them anyway.”
“My daddy who I called T. Ray because “daddy” never fit him.”
“Goddamn it Lily, this ain’t funny”

Lily: “That night I lay in bed and thought about dying and going to be with my mother in paradise”
“Not a single person had ever said, “Lily, you are such a pretty child””
“There was nothing I hated worse than a clump of whispering girls who got quiet when I passed.”