Did you ever hear the Oriental proverb, "The dogs bark but the caravan passes on"? Let them bark, Scarlett. I fear nothing will stop your caravan.
What’s 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 live…I’m too old to believe in such sentimentalities as clean slates and st...
She was less frightened also because life had taken on the quality of a dream, a dream too terrible to be real. It wasn’t possible that she, Scarlett O’Hara, should be in such a predicament, with the...
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...
Well, they get results, don't they?
That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!
Jeems was their body servant and, like the dogs, accompanied them everywhere. He had been their childhood playmate and had been given to the twins for their own on their tenth birthday.
But she knew that no matter what beauty lay behind, it must remain there. No one could go forward with a load of aching memories.
There were so many things to do to bachelors and she knew them all, the nuance of the sidelong glance, the half-smile behind the fan, the swaying of the hips so that skirts swung like a bell, the tear...
[...]desear y conseguir eran dos cosas distintas. La vida no le había enseñado que correr no siempre significa alcanzar.
You've been brave so long Scarlett. You just gotta go on being brave.
Like most girls, her imagination carried her just as far as the altar and no further.
Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.
There will never again be men like them, said Carreen softly. No one can take their places.
My news is this, he answered, grinning down at her. I still want you more than any woman I've ever seen and now that Frank's gone, I thought you'd be interested to know it.
He had never once crossed the borders of friendliness with her and, when she thought of this, fresh anger rose, the anger of hurt pride and feminine vanity.
With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.
And jealous of each other about that two-faced, little, green-eyed baggage,
What’s happened? A very remarkable thing, Scarlett. I’ve been thinking. I don’t believe I really thought from the time of the surrender until you went away from here. I was in a state of suspended ani...
The Cause they had thought could never fall had fallen forever.