All she wanted was a breathing space in which to hurt.
Scarlett kicked the coverlet in impotent rage, trying to think of something bad enough to say.'God's nightgown!' she cried at last, and felt somewhat relieved.
We, dear wife of my bosom, could have been perfectly happy if you had ever given us half a chance, for we are so much alike.
She was darkness and he was darkness and there had never been anything before this time, only darkness and his lips upon her. She tried to speak and his mouth was over hers again. Suddenly she had a w...
She saw in his eyes defeat of her wild dreams, her mad desires.
To hear them talk one would have thought they had no legs, natural functions or knowledge of the wicked world.
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.
I wonder if anyone but me realizes what goes on in that head back of your deceptively sweet face.
The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor
[T]he merciful adjustment which nature makes when what cannot be cured must be endured.
I only know that I love you.That's your misfortune.
They knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excitement that went with it.
Indeed? Well, I shall bring you presents so long as it pleases me and so long as I see things that will enhance your charms. I shall bring you dark-green watered silk for a frock to match the bonnet....
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.
He knew that she took life as it came, opposed her tough-fibered mind to whatever obstacles there might be, fought on with a determination that would not recognize defeat, and kept on fighting even wh...
You can go to the Devil and not at your leisure. You can go now, for all I care.''My pet, I've been to the Devil and he's a very dull fellow. I won't go there again, not even for you.
Twill come to you, this love of land.
Why, why, her mind stuttered, I believe women could manage everything in the world without men’s help--except having babies, and God knows, no woman in her right mind would have babies if she could he...
Like most girls, her imagination carried her just as far as the altar and no further.
Well, they get results, don't they?
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