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. Fannie Flagg More Quotes by Fannie Flagg More Quotes From Fannie Flagg Dena had always been a loner. She did not feel connected to anything. Or anybody. She felt as if everybody else had come into the world with a set of instructions about how to live and someone had forgotten to give them to her. She had no clue what she was supposed to feel, so she had spent her life faking at being a human being, with no idea how other people felt. What was it like to really love someone? To really fit in or belong somewhere? She was quick, and a good mimic, so she learned at an early age to give the impression of a normal, happy girl, but inside she had always been lonely. Fannie Flagg girllonelyideas It's always the darkest just before the glorious dawn. Fannie Flagg gloriousdawn One gal drank a can of floor wax and topped it off with a cup of Clorox, trying to separate herself from the same world he was in. Fannie Flagg cupstryingworld Albert and I would spend hours and hours looking at them. Cleo had this big magnifying glass on his desk, and we'd find centipedes and grasshoppers and beetles and potato bugs, ants . . . and put them in a jar and look at them. They have the sweetest little faces and the cutest expressions. After we'd looked at them all we wanted to, we'd put them in the yard and let them go on about their business. Fannie Flagg glassesantsexpression Daddy gave me real useful information to protect me in the real world. If anyone hits me, I'm not to hit them back. I wait until their back is turned, then hit them in the head with a brick. Fannie Flagg daddyrealwaiting Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face. Fannie Flagg natural-instinctsufferingwater In order to be Miss Anybody you had to have excellent grades, and I had terrible grades because of my dyslexia. Fannie Flagg excellentmissingorder Marriage. Isn't it great? Each time you fall back in love with your [spouse] it gets better and better. Fannie Flagg get-betterlove-youfall I just know there's an albino living in the colored quarters. I can feel it in my bones. Fannie Flagg quartersbonesfeels The ones that hurt the most always say the least. Fannie Flagg hurt I brought a picture with me that I had at home, of a girl in a swing with a castle and pretty blue bubbles in the background, to hang in my room, but that nurse here said the girl was naked from the waist up and not appropriate. You know, I've had that picture for fifty years and I never knew she was naked. If you ask me, I don't think the old men they've got here can see well enough to notice that she's bare-breasted. But, this is a Methodist home, so she's in the closet with my gallstones. Fannie Flagg girlhomethinking If you do everything in your power to avoid writing and still can't, then you must be a writer. Fannie Flagg stillsifswriting I longed to be a writer, always wanted to be a writer. Fannie Flagg wanted It’s funny, most people can be around someone and then gradually begin to love them and never know exactly when it happened Fannie Flagg happenedknowspeople 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 the Bible backed her up in being a doormat. Fannie Flagg religiouscomfortgiving Face it girls. I'm older and I have more insurance. Fannie Flagg tomatoesgirlfaces There Lives More Faith in Honest Doubt, Believe Me, Than Half the Creeds. - Alfred, Lord Tennyson Fannie Flagg faithdoubtbelieve I believe poor people are good people, except the ones that are mean . . . Fannie Flagg meanbelievepeople 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. Fannie Flagg fading-awayyardsgone All right, then, I'd die for you. How about that? Don't you think somebody could die for love? Fannie Flagg diesthinking
