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.

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

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

Now, a murder is usually just a one-time thing—mostly over some woman, not a repeat crime. But a thief is a thief until the day he dies.”

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