Fannie Flagg

“I hate a book that jumps around. Also I can promise”

— Fannie Flagg

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

— Fannie Flagg

Marriage. Isn't it great? Each time you fall back in love with your [spouse] it gets better and better.

— Fannie Flagg

“She was too hurt to cry….You know, a heart can be broken, but it keeps on beating, just the same.”

— Fannie Flagg

“By the way, Boots died and Opal says she hopes you're satisfied.”

— Fannie Flagg

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

— Fannie Flagg

No matter what you look like, there's somebody who's gonna think you're the handsomest man in the world.

— Fannie Flagg

Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.

— Fannie Flagg

“... a heart can be broken, but it keep on beating, just the same.”

— Fannie Flagg

“and Lenore had served each child several cups of the Simmons eggnog, which was 75 percent rum and 25 percent nog. When…

— Fannie Flagg

“Those memories were still there, and tonight, he sat searching for them, just like always, grabbing at moonbeams. Every once in a…

— Fannie Flagg

“Every time they have somebody born in the movies, it is a little boy. They never have little girls being born. What…

— Fannie Flagg

One gal drank a can of floor wax and topped it off with a cup of Clorox, trying to separate herself from…

— Fannie Flagg

“When you're a child you think time will never go by, but when you hit about twenty, time passes like you're on…

— Fannie Flagg

“After Elner Shimfissle accidentally poked that wasps’ nest up in her fig tree, the last thing she remembered was thinking “Uh-oh.”

— Fannie Flagg

“Now, I’m not saying they can help it, all I am saying is that in order for this world to keep on…

— Fannie Flagg

Hazel always used to say There's not enough darkness in the entire universe to snuff out the light of just one little…

— Fannie Flagg

“Hello... is this Mrs. Fritzi Bevins?' 'Yes, it is.' 'From Pulaski, Wisconsin?' 'Yes.' 'Uh... you don't know me, but I recently received…

— Fannie Flagg

“Grandma Harper has two green bottles shaped like women with black hair painted on their heads and a yellow glass colored captain's…

— Fannie Flagg

“With the last of the sun fading, he could see the reflection of the green lights on the docks across the way…

— Fannie Flagg

It was a stretch to imagine that Barbara Walters might want to give it all up for Ed Couch, but Evelyn tried…

— Fannie Flagg

“In 1945, when the male soldiers started coming back home from Europe, she and all the other women pilots that had served…

— Fannie Flagg

“I wish I could describe what it feels like to have thousands of people listening to your every word, how easy it…

— Fannie Flagg

“Hazel: Listen babe you have to search for your luck it's nice if it just falls in your lap but I look…

— Fannie Flagg

“I eat out of stress," she told Robbie, and now, between work and her nephews driving her crazy, she was just on…

— Fannie Flagg

“He was worried about his country. Something was rotting from the inside—a slow decay of what was right and wrong. It was…

— Fannie Flagg

“Harris had done exactly what he had been told to do by the sexy dame from Oklahoma. After he had removed all…

— Fannie Flagg

“It seemed to numerous voters that, thanks to the growing power of the ACLU, criminals were beginning to have more rights than…

— Fannie Flagg

“What was this power, this insidious threat, this invisible gun to her head that controlled her life . . . this terror…

— Fannie Flagg

In order to be Miss Anybody you had to have excellent grades, and I had terrible grades because of my dyslexia.

— Fannie Flagg

You're just a bee charmer, Idgie Threadgoode. That's what you are, a bee charmer.

— Fannie Flagg

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

— Fannie Flagg

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

— Fannie Flagg

“He had been told that in America, if you worked hard, anything was possible.”

— Fannie Flagg

“In the movies, it was always the bad guys that got killed, and the good guys lived happily forever.”

— Fannie Flagg

“Remember, if people talk behind your back, it only that you are two steps ahead of them.”

— Fannie Flagg

There Lives More Faith in Honest Doubt, Believe Me, Than Half the Creeds. - Alfred, Lord Tennyson

— Fannie Flagg

Are you a politician or does lying just run in your family?

— Fannie Flagg

“And her dumplings were so light they would float in the air and you'd have to catch 'em to eat 'em.”

— Fannie Flagg

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

— Fannie Flagg