The Irish are the damnedest race. They put so much emphasis on so many wrong things.
I was right when I said I’d never look back. It hurts too much, it drags at your heart till you can’t ever do anything else except look back.
I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite.
Supposed I don’t want to redeem myself? Why should I fight to uphold the system that cast me out? I shall take pleasure in seeing it smashed.
I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn’t something left in life of charm and grace.
The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.
Now she had a fumbling knowledge that, had she ever understood Ashley, she would never have loved him; had she ever understood Rhett, she would never have lost him.
If I said I was madly in love with you you’d know I was lying.
Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you not to be too impatient.
In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks up. The people who have brains and courage come through and the ones who haven’t are winnowed out.
She was as forthright and simple as the winds that blew over Tara and the yellow river that wound around it.
Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything.
You’re so brutal to those who love you, Scarlett. You take their love and hold it over their heads like a whip.
Did you ever hear the Oriental proverb, “The dogs bark but the caravan passes on”? Let them bark, Scarlett. I fear nothing will stop your caravan.
Scarlett O’Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were.
Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed.
Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.
Her lips on his could tell him better than all her stumbling words.
Death, taxes and childbirth! There’s never any convenient time for any of them.
I’ll think of it tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then. Tomorrow, I’ll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.