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Her burdens were her own and burdens were for shoulders strong enough to bear them.

Why be an ostrich?

War and marriage and childbirth had passed over her without touching any deep chord within her and she was unchanged.

She couldn't survey the wreck of the world with an air of casual unconcern.

Whut gempmums says an' what dey thinks is two diffunt things.

All she wanted was a breathing space in which to hurt.

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.

Oh, it wasn't fair that she should have a dead husband and a baby yelling in the next room and be out of everything that was pleasant.

She wasn't going to sit down and patiently wait for a miracle to help her. She was going to rush into life and wrest from it what she could.

She could never respect a man who let her run over him...

Men should either be clean shaven, mustached or wear full beards. "That little wisp looks like it was just the best he could do," she thought,

Don't be a goose!

This is what happens when you look back to happiness, this pain, this heart-break, this discontent

Every problem has two handles. You can grab it by the handle of fear or the handle of hope.

Times were so hard it was difficult to feed and lodge humans, much less animals.

Well fiddle dee dee!

Was Tara still standing? Or was Tara also gone with the wind which had swept through Georgia?

[Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents.

You have eternity in which to explain and only one night to be a martyr in the amphitheater Get out, darling, and let me see the lions eat you.

I'd cut up my heart for you to wear if you wanted it.

Ashley to marry Melanie Hamilton! Oh, it couldn't be true!

You've been brave so long Scarlett. You just gotta go on being brave.

Dearest one, do you remember When we last did meet?

She is the only dream I ever had that lived and breathed and did not die in the face of reality.
(Ashley said about Melanie)

I've done murder and so I can surely do this.

Tomorrow is another day.

Any man who was fool enough to fall for a simper, a faint and an 'Oh how wonderful you are!' wasn't worth having. But they all seemed to like it.

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.

Supposed I don't want to redeem myself? Why should I fight to uphold the system that cast me out? I shall take pleasure in seeing it smashed.

With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.

You want me to say it? All right, I'll say it. I love you." He

As though she thought I was to blame for what happened, Scarlett thought indignantly.

Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.

I was right when I said I'd never look back. It hurts too much, it drags at your heart till you can't ever do anything else except look back.

To hear them talk one would have thought they had no legs, natural functions or knowledge of the wicked world.

I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace.

You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how.

The happiest days are when babies come.

You're a pretty person, Scarlett," he said. "Especially when you are meditating devilment.

Her lips on his could tell him better than all her stumbling words.

I feel sorry for her, but I don't like people I've got to feel sorry for.

How closely women clutch the very chains that bind them!

You should be kissed and often, by someone who knows how.

He wasn't a gentleman and there was no telling what men would do when they weren't gentlemen. There was no standard to judge them by.

There was no going back and she was going forward.

My! How the grapes are sour today!" -Rhett Butler

Perhaps - I want the old days back again and they'll never come back, and I am haunted by the memory of them and of the world falling about my ears.

She was constitutionally unable to endure any man being in love with any woman not herself ...

I've always had a weakness for lost causes once they're really lost.

In a weak moment, I have written a book.

He looked on people, and he neither liked nor disliked them. He looked on life and was neither heartened nor saddened.

My dear, I don't give a damn.

It was his goatee that annoyed her the most. Men should either be clean shaven, mustached or wear full beards.

A new baby! Why, Scarlett, this is a surprise!" he laughed, leaning down to push the blanket away from Ella Lorena's small ugly face." - Rhett Butler

What did they know about you? I know you.

Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you not to be too impatient.

It's not because I've -what is the phrase? -'swept you off your feet' by my -er- ardor?

long squirrel guns

Some day I'm going to do and say everything I want to do and say, and if people don't like it I don't care.

There's just as much money to be made in the wreck of a civilization as in the upbuilding of one.

The cause didn't seem sacred to her. The war did not seem to be holy affair.

It was one thing to know that Ashley was engaged but it was another to hear people talk about it so casually.

Sir,"she said,"you are no gentleman!"
An apt observation,"he answered airily."And, you, Miss, are no lady.

Now you are beginning to think for yourself instead of letting others think for you. That's the beginning of wisdom.

If! If! If! There were so many ifs in life, never any sense of security, always the dread of losing everything ...

Better to be tormented with memories of Ashley than Charleston accents.

Oh, what a mess life was! Why had she been such an idiot as to marry Charles of all people and have her life end at sixteen?

The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor

There'll always be wars because men love wars. Women don't, but men do..

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.

I can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow.

A minor point at such a moment.

Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless.

Babies, babies, babies. Why did God make so many babies? But no, God didn't make them. Stupid people made them.

If only he hadn't gone out with the Klan!

Like most girls, her imagination carried her just as far as the altar and no further.

You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.

The Cause they had thought could never fall had fallen forever.

The husband is always the last to find out.

I wonder if anyone but me realizes what goes on in that head back of your deceptively sweet face.

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.

Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.

They knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excitement that went with it.

A frost lay over all her emotions and she thought that she would never feel anything warmly again.

I won't need you to rescue meM. I can take care of myself, thank you. - Scarlett O'Hara.

I will think about that tomorrow!

Now he was gone and she was married to a man she not only did not love but for whom she had an active contempt.

As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.

I won't think of it now. I can't stand it now. I'll think of it later.

She was as forthright and simple as the winds that blew over Tara and the yellow river that wound around it.

Scarlett O'Hara wasn't pretty.

Yes, life was very sweet and cosy with Scarlett - as long as she had her own way

I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite.

They were the eyes of a happy woman, a woman around whom storms might blow without ever ruffling the serene core of her being.

If he's forgotten me, I'll make him remember me. I'll make him want me again.

Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.

Southerners can never resist a losing cause.

Fo' Gawd, Miss Scarlett! We's got ter have a doctah. Ah- Ah- Miss Scarlett, Ah doan know nuthin' 'bout bringin' babies. -Prissy

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.

I'm tempting you with fine gifts until your girlish ideals are quite worn away and you are at my mercy.