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 her and tried to hand her that jar of honey, all these feelings that she had been trying to hold back came flooding through her, and it was at that second in time that she knew she loved Idgie with all her heart.

By the way, is there anything sadder than toys on a grave?

Remember, if people talk about you behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead of them.

All right, then, I'd die for you. How about that? Don't you think somebody could die for love?

He had mourned each of those great trains as, one by one, they were pulled off the lines and left to rust in some yard, like old aristocrats, fading away; antique relics of times gone by.

I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with.

It's always the darkest just before the glorious dawn.