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...
What was this power, this insidious threat, this invisible gun to her head that controlled her life . . . this terror of being called names?She had stayed a virgin so she wouldn't be called a tramp or...
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 behind your back, it only that you are two steps ahead of them.
Remember, if people talk about you behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead of them.
Remember, Sookie, nothing says more about a family than good silver and real pearls. The rest is just fluff.
Quando sentirai il telefono che non suona, sarò io che non chiamo.
No, tesoro, credo ancora in Dio. E' solo la parte su Adamo e Eva che mi fa sorgere un interrogativo.
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...
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...
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.
Because any idiot can get married and have children; that’s no great accomplishment.
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...
A heart can be broken, but it keep on beating, just the same.
Poor little old human beings – they’re jerked into this world without having any idea where they came from or what it is they are supposed to do, or how long they have to do it in. Or where they are g...
You never know what's in a person's heart until they're tested, do you?
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.
If there is such a thing as complete happiness, it is knowing that you are in the right place.
Buddy, night and day. We even started calling her Cupid. Idgie was
You can’t have compassion unless you have a certain loyalty to the human race.