“She hasn't your strength. She's never had any strength. She's never had anything but heart." The” — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
“She knew what she wanted and went after it by the shortest route...” — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
“She was going to rush into life and wrest from it what she could.” — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
A pain slashed through her heart as savagely as a wild animal's fangs. — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
So it was true! A pain slashed at her heart as savagely as a wild animal's fangs. — 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
“War and marriage and childbirth had passed over her without touching any deep chord within her and she was unchanged.” — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
“She wanted to cry but the tears would not come. They seemed to flood her chest, and they were hot tears that… — 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
“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 Image
“As usual in the very young, she marveled that people could be so selfishly oblivious to her pain and the world rock… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Scarlett knew the effort this involved both mentally and physically, for Melanie suffered torments of shyness in the presence of anything male.” — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
I was right when I said I'd never look back. It hurts too much, it drags at your heart till you can't… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
No, my dear, I'm not in love with you, no more than you are with me, and if I were, you would… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
“her heart swelled up with misery, until it felt too large for her bosom. It beat with odd little jerks; her hands… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
I can't make you understand because you don't know the meaning of fear. You have the heart of a lion and an… — 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
Somewhere, on the long road that wound through those four years, the girl with her sachet & dancing slippers had slipped away… — 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
Like most girls, her imagination carried her just as far as the altar and no further. — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
But she knew that no matter what beauty lay behind, it must remain there. No one could go forward with a load… — 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
Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate. — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
It was not often that she was alone like this and she did not like it. When she was alone she had… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
Somehow the bright beauty had gone from April afternoon and from her heart as well and the sad sweetness of remembering was… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Out of the welter of rapture and anger and heartbreak and hurt pride that he had left, depression emerged to sit upon… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
“My news is this," he answered, grinning down at her. "I still want you more than any woman I've ever seen and… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
Forgive me for startling you with the impetuosity of my sentiments, my dear Scarlett—I mean, my dear Mrs. Kennedy. It cannot have… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
Suddenly she felt strong and happy. She was not afraid of the darkness or the fog and she knew with a singing… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
“She was seeing things with new eyes for, somewhere along the long road to Tara, she had left her girlhood behind her.… — 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 Image
“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 Image
Until you lose your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is. — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
And apologies, once postponed, become harder and harder to make, and finally impossible. — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
“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 Image
Her lips on his could tell him better than all her stumbling words. — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“The very mystery of him excited her curiosity like a door that had neither lock nor key.” — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
