Quotes from Fannie Flagg

On every door the management had placed a photograph of the person so they could find their room. As he went by he saw face after face of someone who used to be young.

They say envy is a coal that comes hot and hissing straight from hell.

Remember, if people talk behind your back, it only that 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.

Brave girls don't cry.

Those memories were still there, and tonight, he sat searching for them, just like always, grabbing at moonbeams. Every once in a while he would catch one and take a ride, and it was like magic.

I think most people are confused about life, because it's not just one thing going on," said Elner. "It's many things going on at the same time. Life is both sad and happy, simple and complex, all at the same time.

My Aunt Bess is about sixty-five years old and has never been married. She told me that they may put Miss on her tombstone, but that she hasn't missed a thing.

Old people need to see children every once in a while," she whispered confidentially. "It lifts their spirits. Some of these real old ladies they have out here just sit in their wheelchairs all hunched over…but when the nurses give them a baby doll to hold, you'd be surprised at how they just sit right up, holding on to their dolls. Most of them think it's their own babies they've got.

think people, even though they have gone on, still look out for us when we need it.

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 wish I could describe what it feels like to have thousands of people listening to your every word, how easy it is to please them, to get that applause and to hear them out there screaming for you. It's like being in control of one big ocean and you can calm it down or make it roar.

I know there are some rotten apples out there, but take it from me, this old world of ours, flawed as it may be, is a much better place than you have been told.

Women are fools; they will marry anything that has a heartbeat just to have a man.

Towanda the Magnanimous, Righter of Wrongs and Queen without Compare.

Marry a nearsighted man and you'll never look old.

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 meant she was going to have to switch shoe sizes as well. Robbie said she was the only perwon in America who gained weight in her feet.

had been a pilot in the Second World War, said she would be happy to go to Vietnam right now if she could. To them war was war and a draft dodger was a traitor. There was racial unrest everywhere and uneasiness about the rise of crime, drugs, and gangs in the cities and how it was being handled. It seemed to numerous voters that, thanks to the growing power of the ACLU, criminals were beginning to have more rights than the victims.

Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide Ã¢â'¬Â¦ And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and light —JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

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.

All he was doing was just sitting around killing time, looking at the birds and waiting to die.

A heart can be broken but it keeps on beating just the same ~ Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

Nothing had come easy to him. School, sports, or girls... it seemed to Oswald that everyone else had come into this world with a set of instructions but him. From the beginning he had always felt like a pair of white socks and brown shoes in a roomful of tuxedos. He had never really gotten a break in life, and now it was all over.

After the boy at the supermarket had called her those names, Evelyn Couch had felt violated. Raped by words. Stripped of Everything.