Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts

• Home is the place where your history begins.
• What was important to her was knowing that at the moment she took a picture, she was seeing something in a way nobody else ever had.
• Old women who teach Sunday School got just as much meanness in 'em as the rest of us.
• But with people, seems like love's a hard thing to know. It gets all mixed up. I mean, you can love one person in one way and another person in another way. But I think you'll know. I think if it's the right person, it'll be better than rain and hawks and wild plums. Even better than the moon. I think it'll be better than all that put together.
• Our lives can change with every breath we take. Let go of what's gone because men like Roger Briscoe never win. And tell them to hold on like hell to what they've got--each other, and a mother who would die for them.
• We've all got meanness in us. But we have some good in us, too. And the only thing worth living for is the good. That's why we've got to make sure we pass it on.
• What would be the fun of waking up every morning if you'd already done it all?
• Why does anyone lie? 'Cause we're scared or crazy, maybe just 'cause we're mean. I guess there's a million reasons to lie, but none like that. I guess there's always that one lie we never get over.

3/31/2003