What I want I take if I can get it, and so I wrestle neither with angels nor devils.
Her love was still a young girl’s adoration for a man she could not understand, a man who possessed all the qualities she did not own but which she admired. He was still a young girl’s dream of the Perfect Knight and her dream asked no more than acknowledgment of his love, went no further than hopes of a kiss.
I’m very drunk and I intend on getting still drunker before this evening’s over.
Since eight o’clock she had been trying on and rejecting dresses, and now she stood dejected and irritable in lace pantalets, linen corset cover and three billowing lace and linen petticoats. Discarded garments lay about her on the floor, the bed, the chairs, in bright heaps of color and straying ribbons. The rose organdie with long pink sash was becoming, but she had worn it last summer when Melanie visited Twelve Oaks and she’d be sure to remember it. And might be catty enough to mention it.
I do not like the outlines of things to be too sharp. I like them gently blurred, a little hazy.
Just think, Scarlett, a half-million dollars, if you’d only restrained your fiery nature and not rushed into wedlock again!
She thought: “They both see the truth of this war, but Ashley is willing to die about it and Rhett isn’t. I think that shows Rhett’s good sense.
Until you have lost your reputation you never know what a burden it was or what freedom is.
If you say ‘war’ just once more, I’ll go in the house and shut the door. I’ve never gotten so tired of any one word in my life as ‘war,’ unless it’s ’secession.
For Ashley was born of a line of men who used their leisure for thinking, not for doing, for spinning brightly colored dreams that had in them no touch of reality. He moved in an inner world that was more beautiful than Georgia and came back to reality with reluctance!
It was awful for a man to know what women really thought about and talked about. It made a girl feel positively undressed.
And you old enough to be her father!
Then – then you mean I’ve ruined it all – that you don’t love me any more?” “That’s right.
I’ve never bothered about what people said.
There was an exciting atmosphere about the place that uplifted her. It was as if she could actually feel the accelerated steady pulse of the town’s heart beating in time with her own.
To her, all women, including her two sisters, were natural enemies in pursuit of the same prey – man.
There’s nothing worse than a barbecue turned into an indoor picnic.
Afternoon naps were a custom of the country and never were they so necessary as on the all-day parties, beginning early in the morning and culminating in a ball.
Like must marry like or there’ll be no happiness.
It was as if the whole world were enveloped in an unmoving blanket of grey smoke. And the whole world was still.