Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

by Fannie Flagg

He doesn’t have the sense God gave a billy goat.”

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

This line has been stuck in my head since the movie came out in 1989.

You look like you just lost your best friend.”

My grandmother said this to me as a kid when I was upset.

The old man drank his whiskey and said, “Easy. The left one was the only one with even a glimmer of human compassion in it.”