Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people.
Don’t give up before the miracle happens.
Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.
If you cage a wild thing, you can be sure it will die, but if you let it run free, nine times out of ten it will run back home.
Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it’s not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.
In order to be Miss Anybody you had to have excellent grades, and I had terrible grades because of my dyslexia.
You never know what’s in a person’s heart until they’re tested, do you?
The food in the South is as important as food anywhere because it defines a person’s culture.
The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy. There is a certain crudeness and crassness that has suddenly become accepted behavior, even desirable.
I believe in God, but I don’t think you have to go crazy to prove it.
Hazel always used to say There’s not enough darkness in the entire universe to snuff out the light of just one little candle.
You’re just a bee charmer, Idgie Threadgoode. That’s what you are, a bee charmer.
It was a stretch to imagine that Barbara Walters might want to give it all up for Ed Couch, but Evelyn tried her hardest. Of course, even though she was not religious, it was a comfort to know that the Bible backed her up in being a doormat.
He had mourned each of those great trains as, one by one, they were pulled off the lines and left to rust in some yard, like old aristocrats, fading away; antique relics of times gone by.
People cain’t help being what they are any more than a skunk can help being a skunk. Don’t you think if they had their choice they would rather be something else? Sure they would. People are just weak.
I just know there’s an albino living in the colored quarters. I can feel it in my bones.
There Lives More Faith in Honest Doubt, Believe Me, Than Half the Creeds. – Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
Are you a politician or does lying just run in your family?
No matter what you look like, there’s somebody who’s gonna think you’re the handsomest man in the world.
That’s what I’m living on now, honey, dreams, dreams of what I used to do.