"I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with."
- Fannie Flagg
"The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy. There is a certain crudeness and crassness that has suddenly become accepted be..."
"Hazel always used to say There's not enough darkness in the entire universe to snuff out the light of just one little candle."
"It was a stretch to imagine that Barbara Walters might want to give it all up for Ed Couch, but Evelyn tried her hardest. Of course, even though she was not religious, it was a comfort to know that th..."
"...but oh, it would just break your heart to see some of them waiting for their visitors. They get their hair all done up on Saturday, and on Sunday morning they get themselves all dressed and ready, ..."
"People didn't call blacks names anymore, at least not to their faces. Italians weren't wops or dagos, and there were no more kikes, Japs, chinks, or spics in polite conversation. Everybody had a group..."
"After the boy at the supermarket had called her those names, Evelyn Couch had felt violated. Raped by words. Stripped of everything. She had always tried to keep this from happening to her, always bee..."
"It's funny, most people can be around someone and they gradually begin to love them and never know exactly when it happened; but Ruth knew the very second it happened to her. When Idgie had grinned at..."
"The food in the South is as important as food anywhere because it defines a person's culture."
"I knew I wasn't the picture of health, but I didn't think I was headed for the last roundup."