Quotes from Brett Butler

"Mommy we're not going to be poor again are we?" "Not as long as you have that rare blood type."

I'm going to write a book about the South. I'm going to call it When Beautiful Places Happen to Bad People.

I would like it if men had to partake in the same hormonal cycles to which we're subjected monthly. Maybe that's why men declare war - because they have a need to bleed on a regular basis.

You let one dog get away, you make higher fences and put out better food for the next one. (She was talking about husbands,)

Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don't.

I spent the first twenty years of my life waiting for two men I was reasonably certain would never come back: my daddy and Jesus. At least with Jesus I knew he wasn't gone because of something I did

I was born in Alabama. I was raised in Georgia. I'm so Southern I'm related to myself. I have a 12-year-old daughter. She takes after my daddy. She ought to. She's his.