Heart Quotes by Margaret Mitchell

Longing hearts could only stand so much longing.

— Margaret Mitchell

“She knew what she wanted and went after it by the shortest route...”

— Margaret Mitchell

“She was a woman now and youth was gone.”

— Margaret Mitchell

A pain slashed through her heart as savagely as a wild animal's fangs.

— Margaret Mitchell

“There was no going back and she was going forward.”

— Margaret Mitchell

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

— Margaret Mitchell

So it was true! A pain slashed at her heart as savagely as a wild animal's fangs.

— Margaret Mitchell

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

— Margaret Mitchell

“She felt puzzled and ashamed, as always when people attributed to her emotions and motives they possessed and thought she shared.”

— Margaret Mitchell

It was not often that she was alone like this and she did not like it. When she was alone she had…

— Margaret Mitchell

“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

He made her play and she had almost forgotten how. Life had been so serious and so bitter. He knew how to…

— Margaret Mitchell

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

— Margaret Mitchell

“She wanted to cry but the tears would not come. They seemed to flood her chest, and they were hot tears that…

— Margaret Mitchell

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

— Margaret Mitchell

She could not ignore life. She had to live it and it was too brutal, too hostile, for her even to try…

— Margaret Mitchell

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

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

“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

“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

“As usual in the very young, she marveled that people could be so selfishly oblivious to her pain and the world rock…

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Now she had a fumbling knowledge that, had she ever understood Ashley, she would never have loved him; had she ever understood…

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“her heart swelled up with misery, until it felt too large for her bosom. It beat with odd little jerks; her hands…

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“She was seeing things with new eyes for, somewhere along the long road to Tara, she had left her girlhood behind her.…

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Suddenly she felt strong and happy. She was not afraid of the darkness or the fog and she knew with a singing…

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Somewhere, on the long road that wound through those four years, the girl with her sachet & dancing slippers had slipped away…

— Margaret Mitchell

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

“But there was a difference in their hardness and hers and just what the difference was, she could not, for the moment,…

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“She was going to rush into life and wrest from it what she could.”

— Margaret Mitchell

“She hasn't your strength. She's never had any strength. She's never had anything but heart." The”

— 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 she knew that no matter what beauty lay behind, it must remain there. No one could go forward with a load…

— Margaret Mitchell

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

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

— Margaret Mitchell

“Out of the welter of rapture and anger and heartbreak and hurt pride that he had left, depression emerged to sit upon…

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“Scarlett knew the effort this involved both mentally and physically, for Melanie suffered torments of shyness in the presence of anything male.”

— Margaret Mitchell

Somehow the bright beauty had gone from April afternoon and from her heart as well and the sad sweetness of remembering was…

— Margaret Mitchell

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

— Margaret Mitchell