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“Lately, it had been an endless procession of long, black nights and gray mornings, when her sense of failure swept over her like a five-hundred-pound wave; and she was scared. But it wasn't death that she feared. She had looked down into that black pit of death and had wanted to jump in, once too often. As a matter of fact, the thought began to appeal to her more and more.

She even knew how she would kill herself. It would be with a silver bullet. As round and as smooth as an ice-cold blue martini. She would place the gun in the freezer for a few hours before she did it, so it would feel frosty and cold against her head. She could almost feel the ice-cold bullet shooting through her hot, troubled brain, freezing the pain for good. The sound of the gun blast would be the last sound she would ever hear. And then... nothing. Maybe just the silent sound that a bird might hear, flying in the clean, cool air, high above the earth. The sweet, pure air of freedom.

No, it wasn't death she was afraid of. It was this life of hers that was beginning to remind her of that gray intensive care waiting room.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

“He had mourned each of those great trains as, one by one, they were pulled off the lines and left to rust in some yard, like old aristocrats, fading away; antique relics of times gone by.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

“By the way, is there anything sadder than toys on a grave?”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

“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 the Bible backed her up in being a doormat.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

“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 in a jar and look at them. They have the sweetest little faces and the cutest expressions. After we'd looked at them all we wanted to, we'd put them in the yard and let them go on about their business.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

“One gal drank a can of floor wax and topped it off with a cup of Clorox, trying to separate herself from the same world he was in.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

“You're just a bee charmer, Idgie Threadgoode. That's what you are, a bee charmer.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

“That's what I'm living on now, honey, dreams, dreams of what I used to do.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

“I believe in God, but I don't think you have to go crazy to prove it.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

“Oh it don't make no kind of sense. Big ol' ox like Grady won't sit next to a colored child. But he eats eggs- shoot right outta chicken's ass!”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

“You know, a heart can be broken, but it still keeps a-beating just the same.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

“No matter what you look like, there's somebody who's gonna think you're the handsomest man in the world.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

“People cain't help being what they are any more than a skunk can help being a skunk. Don't you think if they had their choice they would rather be something else? Sure they would. People are just weak.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

“You never know what's in a person's heart until they're tested, do you?”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

“Are you a politician or does lying just run in your family?”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

“The ones that hurt the most always say the least.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

“You know, a heart can be broken, but it keeps on beating, just the same.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

“Face it girls. I'm older and I have more insurance.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

“Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

“I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

“I believe poor people are good people, except the ones that are mean . . .”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

“smile, It increases your face value”
― Robert Harling, Steel Magnolias

“I just sat there. I just held Shelby's hand. There was no noise, no tremble, just peace. Oh god. I realize as a woman how lucky I am. I was there when that wonderful creature drifted into my life and I was there when she drifted out. It was the most precious moment of my life.”
― Robert Harling, Steel Magnolias

“...then we went skinny dippin' and did things that frighten the fish...

Character, Shelby Eatonton, from the movie, Steel Magnolias.”
― Robert Harling, Steel Magnolias

“The only difference between us and the animals is our ability to accessorize!”
― Robert Harling, Steel Magnolias

“Louie brought his new girlfriend over, and the nicest thing I can say about her is all her tattoos are spelled correctly.”
― Robert Harling, Steel Magnolias

“Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion." (Truvey Jones)”
― Robert Harling, Steel Magnolias

“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.”
― Kahlil Gibran