Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless.
And that lack of fear has gotten me into a lot of trouble and cost me a lot of happiness. God intended women to be timid frightened creatures and there's something unnatural about a woman who isn't af...
الأرض هى الشئ الوحيد القيم فى هذه الدنيا، لأنها الشئ الوحيد الذى يدوم... ولا تنسى هذه الحقيقة، إنها الشئ الوحيد الذى يستحق الجهد فى سبيله، يستحق النضال من أجله، يستحق الموت حفاظاً عليه. (جيرالد(
Я пройду через все, а когда это кончится, я никогда, никогда больше не буду голодать. Ни я, ни мои близкие. Бог мне свидетель, я скорее украду или убью, но не буду голодать.
Whenever Gerald galloped around the bend in the road and saw his own roof rising through green branches, his heart swelled with pride as though each sight of it were the first sight.
Need kissing badly. That’s what’s wrong with you. All your beaux have respected you too much, though God knows why, or they have been too afraid of you to really do right by you. The result is that yo...
Locale and point of focus and heroine. She leaves the great battlefields of Gettysburg and Vicksburg, Bull Run and Antietam to the others and places the Civil War in the middle of Scarlett O’Hara’s li...
Had awakened no idea of what passion might be or tenderness or true intimacy of body or spirit.
For she could never long endure any conversation of which she was not the chief subject. But she smiled when she spoke, consciously deepening her dimple and fluttering her bristly black lashes as swif...
First, Terminus and then Marthasville, and not until the year of Scarlett's birth had it become Atlanta.
What gentlemen say and what they think are two different things.
We bow to the inevitable. We’re not wheat, we’re buckwheat! When a storm comes along it flattens ripe wheat because it’s dry and can’t bend with the wind. But ripe buckwheat’s got sap in it and it ben...
Vaikk' oot kallis, armahin, mulle, kunnia kuitenkin kalliimpi on.' Se on varsin sattuvasti sanottu, eikö olekin? Ainakin paremmin kuin mitä pystyisin itse keksimään tällä hetkellä. Sillä minä rakastan...
This isn’t the first time the world’s been upside down and it won’t be the last. It’s happened before and it’ll happen again. And when it does happen, everyone loses everything and everyone is equal....
There was no one to tell Scarlett that her own personality, frighteningly vital though it was, was more attractive than any masquerade she might adopt. Had she been told, she would have been pleased b...
The mantle of spinsterhood was definitely on her shoulders now. She was twenty-five and looked it, and so there as no longer any need to try to be attractive.
She lay in the silvery shadows with courage rising and made the plans that a sixteen-year-old makes when life has been so pleasant that defeat is an impossibility and a pretty dress and a clear comple...
She hasn't your strength. She's never had any strength. She's never had anything but heart. The
My pet, the world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business - Rhett Butler
My pet, I’ve been to the devil and he’s a very dull fellow.