Anyone who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city.

Fame is a funny thing, like a secret, both are hard to keep.

That meant I could come back whenever I could manage it. And she was telling me to go. She knew the decision was too big a load for me to carry by myself. She knew me through and through. She had eyes in the back of her heart.

...they'd just tell you to turn the other cheek, wouldn't they?...Trouble is, Mrs. Dowdel observed, after you've turned the other cheek four times, you run out of cheeks.

I'm so far gone that I'm telling the truth. It sounds like a foreign language.

Never trust an ugly woman. She's got a grudge against the world,' said Grandma who was no oil painting herself.

Humor is anger that was sent to finishing school.