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Ruth believing that she deserves Frank's abuse just because she is still in love with Idgie got me in tears :(

“It’s funny, most people can be around someone and then gradually begin to love them and never know exactly when it happened; but Ruth knew the very second it happened to her. When Idgie had grinned at her and tried to hand her that jar of honey, all these feelings that she had been trying to hold back came flooding through her, and it was at that second in time that she knew she loved Idgie with all her heart."

I heard the book is explicitly lesbian unlike the movie adaption and really hope that it's true