"But you know who you are when you're……" — Alexandra Ripley
"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 the scraps that are all you've got left. Everything is that minute, or maybe tomorrow, not yesterday."
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It's the centuries, Scarlett darling. All the life lived there, all the joy and all the sorrow, all the feasts…
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And if things always stayed the same, Scarlett, what would be the reason for bothering to draw breath?
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One of the injustices of the world was that it was so easy to make the innocent and caring ones…
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You belong with me, Scarlett, haven't you figured that out? And the world is where we belong, all of it.…
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If only' repeated again and again in her head like a battering ram...'if only' could break your heart.
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Should-haves solve nothing. It's the next thing to happen that needs thinking about.
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I really don't know why Scarlett has such appeal. When I began writing the sequel, I had a lot of…
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