Jake: The only reason I ain't signing is cause you've turned into some hoity-toity Yankee bitch, and I'd like nothing better right now than to piss you off.
Earl Smooter: You can't ride two horses with one ass, sugarbean.
Melanie Carmichael: You're the first boy I ever kissed, Jake, and I want you to be the last.
Jake: Nobody finds their soul mate when they're ten. I mean, where's the fun in that, right?
Melanie Carmichael: And don't even pretend like you missed me.
Jake: Oh, I missed you all right, but at this range, my aim is bound to improve.
Mayor Kate Hennings: There is nothing wrong with poor people. I get elected by poor people.
Melanie Carmichael: Well, you must be Jake's hot date. I'm Melanie, Jake's snotty Yankee bitch wife whom he refuses to divorce.
Bobby Ray: What'd I ever do to you?
Melanie Carmichael: Oh, you didn't do anything to me, darlin'... Or any other girl in town!
Jake: What the hell is this? Chick food?
Melanie Carmichael: Light beer. Less calories.
Melanie Carmichael: Oh God honey, what if they hate me?
Andrew: No, they're critics Mel. They hate themselves.
Bobby Ray: You can take the girl out of the honky tonk, but you can't take the honky tonk out of the girl.
Answer: It was only humane from Melanie's skewed, immature-at-the-time perspective, believing the cat would be killed instantly. It is still roaming town because it somehow survived the attempt to blow it up and it either never had cancer or has gone into remission.
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