It's the centuries, Scarlett darling. All the life lived there, all the joy and all the sorrow, all the feasts and battles, they're in the air around and the land beneath you. It's time, years beyond our counting weighing without… — Alexandra Ripley Copy Share Image
“But if you knew that, why on earth did you marry her?" Rosemary asked. "Why?" Rhett's mouth twisted in a smile. "Because she was so full of fire and so recklessly, stubbornly brave.Because she was such a child beneath all… — Alexandra Ripley Copy Share Image
“Happy is the best way to be because then you can let other people be happy, too. Their own way.” — Alexandra Ripley Copy Share Image
To anyone with a drop of Irish blood in them the land they live on is like their mother. It's the only thing that… — Alexandra Ripley Copy Share Image
“I’m going to make a world for myself by my rules, not anybody else’s. Don’t worry about me. I’m going to learn to be… — Alexandra Ripley Copy Share Image
“What a waste! What a horrible, senseless waste. When happiness was so wonderful, how could anyone cling to a love that made them unhappy?” — Alexandra Ripley Copy Share Image
“No woman can be truly beautiful who is not, also sometimes, truly ugly.” — Alexandra Ripley Copy Share Image
You belong with me, Scarlett, haven't you figured that out? And the world is where we belong, all of it. We're not home-and-hearth people.… — Alexandra Ripley Copy Share Image
“What gives people whose whole life is a lie the right to judge me?” — Alexandra Ripley Copy Share Image
But you know who you are when you're on your own out there in all that emptiness. There's no past, no holding on to… — Alexandra Ripley Copy Share Image
