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.
He had been told that in America, if you worked hard, anything was possible.
As recent immigrants, they wanted their children to speak and read English well. Miss
Albert and I would spend hours and hours looking at them. Cleo had this big magnifying glass on his desk, and we'd find centipedes and grasshoppers and beetles and potato bugs, ants . . . and put them...
You never know what's in a person's heart until they're tested, do you?
When she finally was able to order a martini, the first sip nearly knocked her head off. It was so strong. And how surprised she was that scotch tasted more like iodine than butterscotch candy. Two of...
The little girl knew if she bit any member of her family, they would get rabies too, and she died without ever having been petted. I cried so hard Mrs. Underwood had to take me to the school nurse.
Remember, if people talk about you behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead of them.
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 d...
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 th...
If there is such a thing as complete happiness, it is knowing that you are in the right place.
I eat out of stress, she told Robbie, and now, between work and her nephews driving her crazy, she was just on the verge of having to switch from her MEDIUM to her FAT AS A HOG wardrobe again, which m...
His motto: Screw the little people. He had lied before, and he would lie again. Ethics were for suckers.
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.
Buddy, night and day. We even started calling her Cupid. Idgie was
Because any idiot can get married and have children; that’s no great accomplishment.
Nobody was ever really ready to turn off their mother's machine, no matter what they thought; to turn off the light of their childhood and walk away, just as if they were turning out a light and leavi...
She had learned that being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome. And
Raging across Europe. Every night, families sat glued to the radio, listening to the news of Poland. Most still had relatives
They also learned that the very best way to start a marriage was with a good laugh.