Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

by Fannie Flagg

“It’s funny, when you’re a child you think time will never go by, but when you hit about twenty, time passes like you’re on the fast train to Memphis. I guess life just slips up on everybody.

I believe poor people are good people, except the ones that are mean … and they’d be mean even if they were rich.

You know, a heart can be broken, but it keeps on beating, just the same.

She wondered why she had to live in a body that would get old and break down and feel pain.

her sweet momma, the one person in the world who loved her better than anyone ever would or ever could.

But then, nobody was ever really ready to turn off their mother’s machine, no matter what they thought; to turn off the light of their childhood and walk away,

You cain’t dwell on sadness, oh, it’ll make you sick faster than anything in this world.”

she was as happy as anybody who is in love in the summertime can be.

There are magnificent beings on this earth, son, that are walking around posing as humans.

“I just wonder how many people never get the one they want, and wind up with the one they’re supposed to be with.

“Naw, I don’t mind murderers. Most of ’em are pretty mild-mannered, pleasant folks, as a rule.”

When you hear the phone not ringing, it’ll be me that’s not calling.

“That’s what I’m living on now, honey, dreams, dreams of what I used to do.”

His main problem in life, at the moment, was that he loved too well and not too wisely.

If there is such a thing as complete happiness, it is knowing that you are in the right place,

“Lord, don’t move my mountain, just give me the strength to climb

The ones that hurt the most always say the least.

Evelyn stopped the car and sat there, sobbing like her heart would break, wondering why people had to get old and die.