Quotes from Fannie Flagg

By the way, is there anything sadder than toys on a grave?

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.

There are magnificent beings on this earth, son, that are walking around posing as humans.

The food in the South is as important as food anywhere because it defines a person's culture.

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 leaving a room.

And so, as quietly as he had lived, he slipped out of town, leaving only a note behind: Well, that's that. I'm off, and if you don't believe I'm leaving, just count the days I'm gone. When you hear the phone not ringing, it'll be me that's not calling. Goodbye, old girl, and good luck. Yours truly, Earl Adcock P.S. I'm not deaf.

It's always the darkest just before the glorious dawn.

Hazel always used to say There's not enough darkness in the entire universe to snuff out the light of just one little candle.

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.

It's funny, most people can be around someone and then gradually begin to love them and never know exactly when it happened

All right, then, I'd die for you. How about that? Don't you think somebody could die for love?

Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!

In order to be Miss Anybody you had to have excellent grades, and I had terrible grades because of my dyslexia.

Marriage. Isn't it great? Each time you fall back in love with your [spouse] it gets better and better.

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.

The food in the South is as important as food anywhere because it defines a person's culture.