Without knowing why, she found it comforting to be in his presence.
Always save something to fear, even as you save something to love.
What is broken is broken—and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.
She whispered Yes before she even thought.
Money can’t buy everything. Someone must have told you that. You’d never think of such a platitude all by yourself. What can’t it buy? Oh, well, I don’t know—not happiness or love, anyway. Generally i...
Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed.
Mammy’s
La terra è la sola cosa al modo che valga qualche cosa [...] perché è la sola cosa al mondo che rimanga e, non dimenticarlo!, la sola cosa per cui vale la pena di lavorare, di lottare... di morire.
It’s a poor person and a poor nation that sits down and cries because life isn’t precisely what they expected it to be.
It's a curse - this not wanting to look on naked realities. Until the war, life was never more real to me than a shadow show on a curtain. And I preferred it so. I do not like the outlines of things t...
If for no other reason she hated the Yankees because they kept her from having real coffee with sugar and thick cream in it.
I want you more than I have ever wanted any woman—and I’ve waited longer for you than I’ve ever waited for any woman.
How closely women crutch the very chains that bind them!
He was so tender, so infinitely soothing, she longed to stay in his arms forever. With such strong arms about her, surely nothing could harm her.
Didn't you get the money for the taxes? Don't tell me the wolf is still at the door of Tara. There was a different tone in his voice.She looked up to meet his dark eyes and caught an expression which...
Dearest one, do you remember When we last did meet?
Child, it's a very bad thing for a woman to face the worst that can happen to her, because after she's faced the worst she can't ever really fear anything again. ...Scarlett, always save something to...
But, hell, I wouldn't have grudged him your body. I know how little bodies mean - especially women's bodies. But I do grudge him your heart and your dear, hard, unscrupulous mind. He doesn't want your...
But, for four years, he had seen others who had refused to recognize defeat, men who rode gaily into sure disaster because they were gallant. And they had been defeated, just the same. He thought as h...
Ashley to marry Melanie Hamilton! Oh, it couldn’t be true!