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.
Honey, that’s one thing you be sure and you get on right away, is your Medicaid, you don’t want to be caught without that.
I believe in God, but I don’t think you have to go crazy to prove it.” – Smokeys dad, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe.
Seated in a car full of women, squashed between his six-foot landlady and Sybil Underwood, having to listen to them talk nonstop all the way to Atlanta and back, was too much for him to bear.
His motto: “Screw the little people.” He had lied before, and he would lie again. Ethics were for suckers.
As recent immigrants, they wanted their children to speak and read English well. Miss.
Marry a nearsighted man and you’ll never look old.
A person lives for years, touches so many people, and then at the end winds up just a small picture and a few paragraphs in the paper, the paper gets thrown away, and it’s all over.
Even when I was failing math and everything else and I was feeling so bad about myself, you sat down with me and said, “Honey, there are those who do well at math, and then there are those, like yourself, who have been blessed with a creative mind and a wonderful imagination. I just know you are going on to do great things.” You’ll never know how you changed my life that day.
Clyde. This here’s Bonnie.
What can I tell you about the town? I suppose if you had driven through it back.
Once you’ve been to Milwaukee, you’re never the same.
After the boy at the supermarket had called her those names, Evelyn Couch had felt violated. Raped by words. Stripped of Everything.
They also learned that the very best way to start a marriage was with a good laugh. Particularly when the children start coming.
Her daughter had given her a puff of a marijuana cigarette once, but after all the hot pads on the counter started walking toward her, she got scared and never tried it again. So dope was out.
No matter how many times Dena had tried to tell her, Sookie had never understood what a great gal she was on her own. She had been one of the funniest and best-liked girls on campus, but she had never quite believed it. Everybody seemed to love Sookie but Sookie. A.
First, it is imperative that you create a private Sacred Space and set up an altar with a photo of yourself as a child, a candle, or anything else that speaks to you. I have a picture of the Dalai Lama and Oprah Winfrey.
And for those like Norma and Macky, born and raised in the forties and fifties, it was such a drastic change from that era when everyone felt safe, and your only knowledge of the Middle East was a picture on a Christmas card of a bright star shining down on a peaceful manger, not the place full of hate and rage they saw daily on the television and read about in the newspapers.
Sometimes a woman in love doesn’t see what’s right in front of her eyes. Even a woman with a law degree.
Why Did Noah Let Two Snakes on the Boat When He Had a Chance to Get Rid of Them Once and for All?
See what I mean? She thinks she sees all kinds of things out in the yard. Last week it was flying turtles.” She walked over and picked up his dishes. “I’m not sure if it was that fall she took a while ago or just her age; she’s older than God.