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The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion QUOTES

The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion QUOTES

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

― Fannie Flagg , The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion

2 " I’m telling you, Dena, when you live long enough to see your children begin to look at you with different eyes, and you can look at them not as your children, but as people, it’s worth getting older with all the creaks and wrinkles. "

― Fannie Flagg , The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion

3 " They say the truth can set you free, but sometimes it can really depress the hell out of you. "

― Fannie Flagg , The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion

4 " Your mother formed an incorrect opinion of you and, naturally, you agreed with her. Children always think their parents are right. But in this case, your mother was entirely wrong. Think about it. Your mother is an overpowering individual, "

― Fannie Flagg , The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion

5 " You may not be the person your mother wants you to be, but you are you. Our job here is to try and separate the wheat from the chaff and figure out who you are and not who your mother thinks you are. "

― Fannie Flagg , The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion

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

― Fannie Flagg , The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion

7 " Whom the heart first loves does not know or care if they are related by blood. "

― Fannie Flagg , The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion

8 " she had learned that being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome. "

― Fannie Flagg , The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion

9 " and Lenore had served each child several cups of the Simmons eggnog, which was 75 percent rum and 25 percent nog. When they came to pick the children up, all four were stumbling around her living room in a drunken stupor. "

― Fannie Flagg , The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion

10 " she had learned that being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome. And "

― Fannie Flagg , The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion

11 " and now i know i'm not myself. how can i ever be myself again? i was never myself in the first place! "

― Fannie Flagg , The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion

12 " Remember, Sookie, nothing says more about a family than good silver and real pearls. The rest is just fluff. "

― Fannie Flagg , The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion

13 " Men are necessary up to a point, but women are the natural leaders in society and in the home. "

― Fannie Flagg , The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion

14 " They always said, that once you've been to Milwaukee, you're never the same. "

― Fannie Flagg , The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion

15 " I don’t know. I just feel all wicky-wacky. I’m just thrown for a loop and back. I can’t even think about what to do. "

― Fannie Flagg , The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion

16 " No matter how many times Dena had tried to tell her, Sookie had never understood what a great gal she was on her own. She had been one of the funniest and best-liked girls on campus, but she had never quite believed it. Everybody seemed to love Sookie but Sookie. A "

― Fannie Flagg , The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion

17 " You may not be the person your mother wants you to "

― Fannie Flagg , The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion

18 " Harris had done exactly what he had been told to do by the sexy dame from Oklahoma. After he had removed all of his clothes, he smirked at her. "Will I do?" Willy, still fully dressed in her steel-tipped cowboy boots, smiled and said, "Oh, yes. Come here, big boy." As soon as he got close enough, she hauled off and kicked him as hard as she could, and Harris fell to the floor, clutching his pride and joy and screaming in pain. Willy calmly strolled over and picked up his shoes and all of his clothes and threw them out the twenty-second-floor window. She left him lying on the floor, naked and writhing in agony. Willy never told a soul what she had done, but she figured it was the least she could do for Fritzi. "

― Fannie Flagg , The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion

19 " raging across Europe. Every night, families sat glued to the radio, listening to the news of Poland. Most still had relatives "

― Fannie Flagg , The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion

20 " But in August 1945, Americans "

― Fannie Flagg , The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion