

“We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.”
― The Bluest Eye
― The Bluest Eye

“Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live”
― The Bluest Eye
― The Bluest Eye

“...Rejoice for a comrade deceased,
Our loss is his infinite gain,
A soul out of prison released,
And free from its bodily chain."
~Smokey Lonesome”
― Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Our loss is his infinite gain,
A soul out of prison released,
And free from its bodily chain."
~Smokey Lonesome”
― Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

“If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy.”
― The Bluest Eye
― The Bluest Eye

“Just think, Ruth, I never did it for anybody else before. Now nobody in the whole world knows I can do that but you. I just wanted us to have a secret together, that's all.”
― Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
― Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
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