Quotes

May 24, 2010 11:46

"And before she (Ruth) knew what had happened, she had slapped Idgie across the face with all her might.
Idgie looked at Ruth, speechless and stunned. They just stood there, looking at each other, and in that moment Ruth wished more than anything in the world that she could just grab her and hold her as tight as she could; but if she had, she knew she would never let go.
So Ruth did the hardest thing she had ever done in her life; she just turned around and left, and closed the door behind her."

Ruth's mother dying:
"You get away from him....Ruth, promise me. He's the devil...
...Ruth cried for her mother and, an hour later, went upstairs, washed her face, and addressed the envelope to Idgie. After she sealed it, she went over to the window and looked up at the blue sky. She took a deep breath of fresh air and felt her heart rising like a kite that some child had just released to the heavens."

"I admired Ruth for having the courage to walk away like that. It took real courage in those days. Back then, if you were married, you stayed married. But she was a lot stronger than people knew. Everybody was always treating Ruth like a china doll, but you know, she was a lot stronger than Idgie in many ways."

And right after Ruth gets to the Threadgood house:
"Ruth went outside, where Idgie was waiting in the backyard, lying in the grass, listening to crickets, and wondering why she felt so drunk after she had not had a drop to drink."

And when Idgie and Big George are on trial for murder:
"The judge, the Honorable Curtis Smoote, knew damn well that there had not been any three-day tent revival in the middle of December. And from where he was sitting, he had also seen that the preacher did not have a Bible between the covers of the book he had sworn on. He had seldom seen such a scrubbed-up lot of down and dirty characters. And besides, the judge's daughter had just died a couple f weeks ago, old before her time and living a dog's life on the outskirts of town, because of Frank Bennett; so he really didn't care who had killed the SOB."
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