Pam Webber > Pam's Quotes

“Music has power to create a universe or to destroy a civilization.”
― Katherine Neville, The Eight

“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

“Don't give up before the miracle happens.”
― Fannie Flagg, I Still Dream About You

“Face it girls. I'm older and I have more insurance.”
― 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

“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.”
― Fannie Flagg, Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!

“being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.”
― Fannie Flagg, The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion

“But what Mom never told me is that along the way, you find sisters, and they find you. Girls are cool that way.”
― Adriana Trigiani, Viola in Reel Life

“The terrible things that happen to us in life never make any sense when we're in the middle of them, floundering, no end in sight. There is no rope to hang on to, it seems. Mothers can soothe children during those times, through their reassurance. No one worries about you like your mother, and when she is gone, the world seems unsafe, things that happen unwieldy. You cannot turn to her anymore, and it changes your life forever. There is no one on earth who knew you from the day you were born; who knew why you cried, or when you'd had enough food; who knew exactly what to say when you were hurting; and who encouraged you to grow a good heart. When that layer goes, whatever is left of your childgood goes with her. Memories are very different and cannot soothe you the same way her touch did.”
― Adriana Trigiani, Big Stone Gap

“Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved”
― Adriana Trigiani, Big Stone Gap

“.. its not so much about the shoes, but the person wearing them”
― Adriana Trigiani, Viola in Reel Life

“In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.”
― John Grisham

“Don't compromise yourself - you're all you have.”
― John Grisham, The Rainmaker

“You live your life today,
Not tomorrow,
and certainly not yesterday.”
― John Grisham

“Some people have more guts than brains.”
― John Grisham, The Rainmaker

“If you're gonna be stupid you gotta be tough.”
― John Grisham, The Testament

“I'm alone and outgunned, scared and inexperienced, but I'm right.”
― John Grisham, The Rainmaker

“I didn't dare think of the future; the past was still happening.”
― John Grisham, The Street Lawyer

“Critics should find meaningful work.”
― John Grisham

“A battered wife is a married woman until she gets a divorce. Or until she kills the bastard.”
― John Grisham, The Rainmaker

“Please give me fifty more years of work and fun, then an instant death when I'm sleeping.”
― John Grisham, The Rainmaker

“In one long glorious acknowledgment of failure, he laid himself bare before God.”
― John Grisham, The Testament

“You is kind. You is smart. You is important.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“Ever morning, until you dead in the ground, you gone have to make this decision. You gone have to ask yourself, "Am I gone believe what them fools say about me today?”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“All I'm saying is, kindness don't have no boundaries.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“Write about what disturbs you, particularly if it bothers no one else.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“That's the way prayer do. It's like electricity, it keeps things going.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“Sorry is the fool who ever underestimates my mother.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“I'd cry, if only I had the time to do it.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“Truth.
It feels cool, like water washing over my sticky-hot body. Cooling a heat that's been burning me up all my life.
Truth, I say inside my head again, just for that feeling.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help