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.

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

‘Honey, just ’cause we ain’t no kin don’ mean you don’ belong to me.’

There are magnificent beings on this earth, son, that are walking around posing as humans. And I don’t ever want you to forget that.

Evelyn had even made up a secret code name for herself…a name feared around the world: TOWANDA THE AVENGER!

‘Oh honey, it does no good to hate. It’ll do nothing but turn your heart into a bitter root.