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.

It’s funny, most people can be around someone and then gradually begin to love them and never know exactly when it happened

I believe in God, but I don't think you have to go crazy to prove it.

If you cage a wild thing, you can be sure it will die, but if you let it run free, nine times out of ten it will run back home.

I believe poor people are good people, except the ones that are mean . . .

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.

That's what I'm living on now, honey, dreams, dreams of what I used to do.