One gal drank a can of floor wax and topped it off with a cup of Clorox, trying to separate herself from the same world he was in.
I think that people that are not sensitive, who seem to bang through life, do survive, but I don’t think they get the really soaring feelings that people who are more artistically bent can get.
I longed to be a writer, always wanted to be a writer.
I have a lot of friends that are ex-Miss Alabamas and ex-Miss Georgias.
It’s funny, most people can be around someone and then gradually begin to love them and never know exactly when it happened.
Daddy gave me real useful information to protect me in the real world. If anyone hits me, I’m not to hit them back. I wait until their back is turned, then hit them in the head with a brick.
In her opinion, Alexander Graham Bell and Clarence Birdseye are the two greatest Americans that ever lived excluding Robert E. Lee. She believes we never lost the War Between the States, that General Lee thought General Grant was the butler and just naturally handed him his sword.
By the way, is there anything sadder than toys on a grave?
It’s funny, when you’re a child you think time will never go by, but when you hit about twenty, time passes like you’re on the fast train to Memphis. I guess life just slips up on everybody. It sure did on me.
It’s always the darkest just before the glorious dawn.
All right, then, I’d die for you. How about that? Don’t you think somebody could die for love?
If you do everything in your power to avoid writing and still can’t, then you must be a writer.
It’s funny, most people can be around someone and they gradually begin to love them and never know exactly when it happened; but Ruth knew the very second it happened to her. When Idgie had grinned at her and tried to hand her that jar of honey, all these feelings that she had been trying to hold back came flooding through her, and it was at that second in time that she knew she loved Idgie with all her heart.
There are magnificent beings on this earth, son, that are walking around posing as humans.
They say the truth can set you free, but sometimes it can really depress the hell out of you.
All those calm, adult discussions. When all she really wanted to do was scream for her momma, her sweet momma, the one person in the world who loved her better than anyone ever would or ever could.
If there is such a thing as complete happiness, it is knowing that you are in the right place.
Idgie smiled back at her and looked up into the clear blue sky that reflected in her eyes and she was as happy as anybody who is in love in the summertime can be.
People didn’t call blacks names anymore, at least not to their faces. Italians weren’t wops or dagos, and there were no more kikes, Japs, chinks, or spics in polite conversation. Everybody had a group to protest and stick up for them. But women were still being called names by men. Why? Where was our group? It’s not fair.
Like I say, it just creeps up on you. One day you’re young and the next day your bosoms and your chin drops and you’re wearing a rubber girdle. But you don’t know you’re old.