“If! If! If There were so many ifs in life, never any certainty of anything, never any security...” — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Here, take my handkerchief. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.” — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
“She was going to rush into life and wrest from it what she could.” — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Really, Scarlett, I can't go all my life, waiting to catch you between husbands.” — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace. — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Yes, life was very sweet and cosy with Scarlett - as long as she had her own way” — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
“He looked on people, and he neither liked nor disliked them. He looked on life and was neither heartened nor saddened.” — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
The green eyes in the carefully sweet face were turbulent, willful, lusty with life, distinctly at variance with her decorous demeanor. Her… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
She could not ignore life. She had to live it and it was too brutal, too hostile, for her even to try… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
“She wasn't going to sit down and patiently wait for a miracle to help her. She was going to rush into life… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
He made her play and she had almost forgotten how. Life had been so serious and so bitter. He knew how to… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
If! If! If! There were so many ifs in life, never any sense of security, always the dread of losing everything. — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief. — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Until the war, life was never more real to me than a shadow show on a curtain. And I preferred it so.… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
“She lay in the silvery shadows with courage rising and made the plans that a sixteen-year-old makes when life has been so… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
“For Ashley was born of a line of men who used their leisure for thinking, not doing, for spinning brightly colored dreams… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Ellen had never told her that desire and attainment were two different matters; life had not taught her that the race was… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
Yes, as Rhett had prophesied, marriage could be a lot of fun. Not only was it fun but she was learning many… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
But the small cloud which appeared in the northwest four months ago had blown up into a mighty storm and then into… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
It's a curse - this not wanting to look on naked realities. Until the war, life was never more real to me… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Well, none of us, as far as I can see, are doing what we intended to do right now, but I think… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
I have a passionate desire for personal privacy. I want to stand before the world, for good or bad, on the book… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Ellen's life was not easy, nor was it happy, but she did not expect life to be easy, and, if it was… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
“But there was a difference in their hardness and hers and just what the difference was, she could not, for the moment,… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
“But, Ashley, what are you afraid of?' 'Oh, nameless things. Things which sound very silly when they are put into words. Mostly… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Melanie is the gentlest of dreams and a part of my dreaming. And if the war had not come I would have… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
“My darling, you're such a child. You think that by saying, "I'm sorry," all the past can be corrected. Here, take my… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no worse than… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
“He knew that she took life as it came, opposed her tough-fibered mind to whatever obstacles there might be, fought on with… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
I won't think of it now. I can't stand it now. I'll think of it later. — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share
“I don't want any money for it," he said. "It's a gift." Scarlett's mouth dropped open. The line was so closely, so carefully drawn… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share
Until you lose your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is. — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share
And apologies, once postponed, become harder and harder to make, and finally impossible. — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share
“There was a glow of grim pride in her usually gentle face, approbation and a fierce joy in her smile that equaled the fiery… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share
The way to get a man interested and to hold his interest was to talk about himself, and then gradually lead the conversation around… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share
She was as forthright and simple as the winds that blew over Tara and the yellow river that wound around it. — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share
“The very mystery of him excited her curiosity like a door that had neither lock nor key.” — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share
“He had never once crossed the borders of friendliness with her and, when she thought of this, fresh anger rose, the anger of hurt… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share
People must do what they must do. We all don't think alike or act alike and it's wrong to-to judge others by ourselves. — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share
All you have done is to be different from other women and you have made a little success of it. This is unforgivable sin… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share
“She felt puzzled and ashamed, as always when people attributed to her emotions and motives they possessed and thought she shared.” — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share
