Quotes from Billie Letts

the only thing worth living for is the good. That's why we've got to make sure we pass it on.

I used to be afraid of the dark. But sometimes, it's the best place to be. Sometimes you can see things in the dark that you can't see in the light.

And the needles of the pine trees, freshly washed to a deep, rich green, shimmered with droplets that blinked like clear crystals.

She's trying to sleep with every boy on the football team before her junior year. If she does, she wins five hundred dollars." "Now who would pay her to do a thing like that?" "The football team.

You tell them that our lives can change with every breath we take and tell 'em to hold on like hell to what they've got: each other, and a mother who would die for them and almost did. You tell them we've all got meanness in us, but we've got goodness too. And the only thing worth living for is the good. And that's why we've got to make sure we pass it on.

Those men had given up parts of their bodies, pieces of their minds, to kill an enemy they couldn't see, to save friends they couldn't forget, to take a piece of ground they couldn't own.

Remember this: change is brought about by good purpose.

Sunday school...Bible study...prayer meetings. Now that's just too much church. Ain't nobody so full a sin they need that much church.

Never act like you want it, darlin'. Act like you wouldn't own it if they paid you. Tell them it's dirty, broken...a useless thing. Then make an offer.

You ever think about this? Every year you live, you pass the anniversary of your death. Now you don't know what day it is, of course.