“ If I could describe myself, I'd say that I am a poetic gerd. (A geek and nerd combo) I love Shakespeare and romance, but sci-fi and action have a big slice of my heart. When I meet a man who can quote… Melanie Kay Taylor
“ Ashley watched her go and saw her square her small shoulders as she went. And that gesture went to his heart, more than any words she had spoken. Margaret Mitchell
“ I told you once before that there were two times for making big money, one in the up-building of a country and the other in its destruction. Slow money on the up-building, fast money in the crack-up.… Margaret Mitchell
“ It was unreal, grotesquely unreal, that morning skies which dawned so tenderly blue could be profaned with cannon smoke that hung over the town like low thunder clouds, that warm noontides filled with… Margaret Mitchell
“ Suddenly she hated them all because they were different from her, because they carried their losses with an air that she could never attain, would never wish to attain. She hated them, these smiling,… Margaret Mitchell
“ I’ve felt that I was trying to row a heavily loaded boat in a storm. I’ve had so much trouble just trying to keep afloat that I couldn’t be bothered about things that didn’t matter, things I could par… Margaret Mitchell
“ In the dull twilight of the winter afternoon she came to the end of a long road which had begun the night Atlanta fell. She had set her feet upon that road a spoiled, selfish and untried girl, full of… Margaret Mitchell
“ War and marriage and childbirth had passed over her without touching any deep chord within her and she was unchanged. Margaret Mitchell
“ But how nice it would be to know that some good Yankee woman - And there must be SOME good Yankee women. I don’t care what people say, they can’t all be bad! How nice it would be to know that they pul… Margaret Mitchell
“ Suddenly she felt strong and happy. She was not afraid of the darkness or the fog and she knew with a singing in her heart that she would never fear them again. No matter what mists might curl around… Margaret Mitchell
“ To Scarlett, there was something breath-taking about Ellen O'Hara, a miracle that lived in the house with her and awed her and charmed and soothed her. Margaret Mitchell
“ They knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excitement that went with it. Margaret Mitchell
“ 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. Margaret Mitchell
“ 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… Margaret Mitchell
“ He told me and Rafe to stay put in case you came home, burn the note and get hot water and disinfectant and bandages rea Tana French
“ It's just that in the Deep South, women learn at a young age that when the world is falling apart around you, it's time to take down the drapes and make a new dress. Karen Marie Moning
