Scarlett, I don't know just when it was that the bleak realization came over me that my own private shadow show was over. Perhaps in the first five minutes at Bull Run when I saw the first man I kille...
I love you, your courage and your stubbornness and your fire and your utter ruthlessness. How much do I love you? So much that a moment ago I would have outraged the hospitality of the house which has...
Hardships make or break people.
You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.
Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.
On the third night after Bonnie's death,
I do not want to marry you or anyone else. I am not a marrying man.
Hush, he said. I am asking you to marry me. Would you be convinced if I knelt down?
He could no more resist pricking the conceits, the hypocrisies and the flamboyant patriotism of those about him than a small boy can resist putting a pin into a balloon. He neatly deflated the pompous...
Drink and dissipation had done their work on the coin-clean profile and now it was no longer the head of a young pagan prince on new-minted gold but a decadent, tired Caesar on copper debased by long...
I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace.
The best marriages are when the parents choose for the girl. For how can a silly piece like yourself tell a good man from a scoundrel?
Mrs. Charles Hamilton--one hundred and fifty dollars--in gold.
Melanie is the gentlest of dreams and a part of my dreaming. And if the war had not come I would have lived out my life, happily buried at Twelve Oaks, contentedly watching life go by and never being...
I’ve never bothered about what people said.
It's not because I've -what is the phrase? -'swept you off your feet' by my -er- ardor?
In the excitement of trying on dresses she had forgotten Mammy’s ironclad rule that, before going to any party, the O’Hara girls must be crammed so full of food at home they would be unable to eat any...
Há uma penalidade sempre ligada às coisas que mais desejamos. É o isolamento. pg 637
Her manners had been imposed upon her by her mother's gentle admonitions and the sterner discipline of her mammy; her eyes were her own.
Ellen's life was not easy, nor was it happy, but she did not expect life to be easy, and, if it was not happy, that was woman's lot. It was a man's world, and she accepted it as such. The man owned th...