"Well, sometimes love seems easy. Like..it's easy to love rain...and hawks. And it's easy to love wild plums...and the moon. But with people, seems like love's a hard thing to know. It gets all mixed up. I mean, you can love one person in one way and another person in another way. But how do you know you love the right one in every way?"
— Billie Letts

"...tell them that we have some good in us, too. And the only thing worth living for is the good. That’s why we’ve got to make sure we pass it on."
— Billie Letts (Where the Heart Is)

"Home is the place that'll catch you when you fall. And we all fall."
— Billie Letts

"And the needles of the pine trees, freshly washed to a deep, rich green, shimmered with droplets that blinked like clear crystals."
— Billie Letts (Shoot the Moon)

""The money" The girl stiffened at something she heard in his voice, something jagged and sharp, like words torn by the blade of a knife."
— Billie Letts (Where the Heart Is)

"She always set three alarms for fear that the first employees to arrive would discover her sleeping - a Goldilocks without her bears"
— Billie Letts (Where the Heart Is)

"Novalee watched his lips shape the words...the sounds, like whispered secrets, hanging in the air."
— Billie Letts (Where the Heart Is)

""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.""
— Billie Letts (Where the Heart Is)

"The boy, a ten-year-old copy of the man..."
— Billie Letts (Where the Heart Is)