Frank: You gonna be the person you decide to be, or are you gonna be the person everyone else tells you you are?
Frank: See, once you get out of a town like Creekville, not only do you see how small your world was, you also see how much bigger it could become.
Beth: He was the kind of person I wanted to be: smart, funny and considerate.
Frank: Aunt Butch, I know that that is the very best that you're capable of.
[Kisses her hand]
Beth: You don't need these men's permission to play with me, you need mine which I'll never ever give up because you are presumptuous and disrespect, and you're probably even stupider than you look.
Beth: was the only adult I knew who looked me in the eye; who was curious about what I had to say; and who liked to make me laugh. And in summer of 1969, when I was 14, that was exhilarating.
Frank: You think I've never had sex with a beautiful young man, Bruce? Hell, I used to be a beautiful young man.
