sweet magnolias quotes
Maddie Townsend: “My life is a mess. I’m holding it together with duct tape and happy thoughts, and I’m running out of both.”
Helen Decatur: “And, Peggy, I hope that for the benefit of an informed populace, you will cover this public meeting in your role as a deputy editor of our paper and not in the role of Mary Vaughn’s best friend. “
Maddie Townsend: “We got enough storm clouds out there. Don’t need you being one too.”
Noreen: “I’ve only seen one play. It was beautiful. It was called Cats”
Helen Decatur: “That was the most magnificent thing I’ve seen you do since you ate that lizard in kindergarten. “
Dana: “We all know how painful it can be to kick a man to the curb, but you don’t just reboot yourself out of the pan in to hellfire”
Trotter: “What, like polka-dotted fish with two heads weird or like not everybody likes Beyonce weird?”
Helen: “Sometimes if we treat people as if they’re good, it challenges them to be good”
Maddie Townsend: “Go upstairs before you say something that I will make you regret.”
Dana: “Knock me down and steal my teeth”
Helen: “Maddie, this is hard, but you will persevere. “
Helen Decatur: “I will stop pushing, but I will not stop worrying. It is how I express my love.”
Helen Decatur: “Your nerves are talking and not your hear. Tell the first to shut up and listen to the second “
Eric : “If Mother Nature didn’t like curves, she would’ve made the earth flat”
Mary Vaughn Lewis: “Well my, my, aren’t we living in high cotton?”
Skeeter : “Pipes in the walls upstairs have been leaking. Corroded everything. Soaked down through the walls, seeped into the floorboards like deceit in a soul. “
Helen: “Everyone is entitled to be sad, but no one should be sad alone.”
Dana Sue Sullivan: “Oh, bless your heart. Go ahead then and work your magic.”
Maddie Townsend: “Gossip travels like grease through a goose in this town. “
Dana Sue Sullivan: “I will not have a man who lies in this kitchen or in my life.”