The week passed by swiftly, like a dream....a dream where minutes flew as rapidly as heartbeats. Such a breathless week when something within her drove Scarlett with mingled pain and pleasure to pack...
Oh, he was detestable! She swung round on her heel and marched into the house. She grabbed hold of the door to shut it with a bang, but the hook which held it open was too heavy for her. She struggled...
My pet, I’ve been to the devil and he’s a very dull fellow.
Malign fate had broken their necks, perhaps, but never their hearts. They had not whined, they had fought. And when they died, they died spent but unquenched.
I’ve done murder and so I can surely do this.
It's hard to salvage jettisoned cargo and, if it is retrieved, it's usually irreparably damaged. And I fear that when you can afford to fish up the honor and virtue and kindness you've thrown overboar...
It was one thing to know that Ashley was engaged but it was another to hear people talk about it so casually.
I want to make you faint. I will make you faint. You've had this coming to you for years. None of the fools you've known have kissed you like this - have they? Your precious Charles or Frank or your s...
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.
He made her play and she had almost forgotten how. Life had been so serious and so bitter. He knew how to play and swept her along with him.
He looked on people, and he neither liked nor disliked them. He looked on life and was neither heartened nor saddened.
He looked on people, and he neither liked nor disliked them. He looked on life and was neither heartened nor saddened. He accepted the universe and his place in it for what they were and, shrugging, t...
Did you ever in your novel reading come across the old situation of the disinterested wife falling in love with her own husband? You know I don’t read novels, she said and, trying to equal his jesting...
Scarlett) Go on! Go on now! I want you to hurry. I don't want to ever see you again. I hope a cannon ball lands right on you. I hope it blows you to a million pieces. I--(Rhett) Never mind the rest. I...
You're so brutal to those who love you, Scarlett. You take their love and hold it over their heads like a whip.
You want me to say it? All right, I’ll say it. I love you. He
Well--you know how the Wilkes are. They are kind of queer about music and books and scenery. Mother says it's because their grandfather came from Virginia. She says Virginians set quite a store by suc...
To her, all women, including her two sisters, were natural enemies in pursuit of the same prey--man.
The cause didn't seem sacred to her. The war did not seem to be holy affair.
That was a neat way of smoothing a man’s vanity and yet keeping him on the string, and Charles rose to it as though such bait were new and he the first to swallow it.