“I don't want no better book than what your face is.”

“Books are, let's face it, better than everything else.”

“Why you don't like to show your face? It's for the sake of mystery, or for shocking? — My hair is much better than me. I prefer to show it.”

“I just want to be not what I am today.
I just want to be better than my friends might say.
I just want a small part in your passion play.”

“I don't know very much but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don't want to argue about it…My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.”

“I don't wanna lose your face
And I don't wanna wake up one day
and not remember what time erased.
I don't wanna turn around
'Cause I'm not scared of what love gave me and took away.
And I don't wanna lose your face…”

“I don't want to see you. I don't like you. I don't like your face. You look like an insufferable egotist. You're impertinent. You're too sure of yourself. Twenty years ago I would have punched your face with the greatest of pleasure.”

“Southern man better keep your head.
Don't forget what your good book said.
Southern change gonna come at last
Now your crosses are burning fast.
Southern man.”

“Meg, don't you think you'd make a better adjustment to life if you faced facts?"
I do face facts," Meg said.
They're lots easier to face than people, I can tell you.”

“But I don't want your throne."
"Then what do you want?"
"You.”