Ashley wilkes Quote by Margaret Mitchell

““She [Melanie] is the only dream I ever had that lived and breathed and did not die in the face of reality.””

Margaret Mitchell

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I won't think of it now. I can't stand it now. I'll think of it later.

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“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 where gifts from men were concerned. "Candy and flowers, dear," Ellen had said time and again, "and perhaps a book of poetry or an album or a small bottle of Florida water are the only things…

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Until you lose your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.

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And apologies, once postponed, become harder and harder to make, and finally impossible.

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“There was a glow of grim pride in her usually gentle face, approbation and a fierce joy in her smile that equaled the fiery…

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Her lips on his could tell him better than all her stumbling words.

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The way to get a man interested and to hold his interest was to talk about himself, and then gradually lead the conversation around…

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She was as forthright and simple as the winds that blew over Tara and the yellow river that wound around it.

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“The very mystery of him excited her curiosity like a door that had neither lock nor key.”

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“He had never once crossed the borders of friendliness with her and, when she thought of this, fresh anger rose, the anger of hurt…

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“The husband is always the last to find out.”

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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.

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He gives me a kiss that barely touches my lips – it means nothing or everything. After he’s gone, I think, Happy birthday to me. Jack says, ‘That was the guy?’ ‘That was him.’ Jake shakes his head. ‘What?’ ‘He’s not for you,’ he says. I say, ‘How do you know?’ but what I mean is, How do you know?…

Melissa Bank

“But, Ashley, what are you afraid of?' 'Oh, nameless things. Things which sound very silly when they are put into words. Mostly of having life suddenly become too real, of being brought into personal, too personal, contact with some of the simple facts of life. It isn't that I mind splitting logs here in the mud, but I do mind…

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Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.

Clark Gable

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Ser eyes met his, hers naked with pleading, his remote as mountain lakes under gray skies. She saw in them defeat of her wild…

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Rhett: Don't start flirting with me. I'm not one of your plantation beaux. I want more than flirting from you. Scarlett: What do you want? Rhett: I'll tell you, Scarlett O'Hara, if you'll take that Southern-belle simper off your face. Someday I want you to say to me the words I heard you say to Ashley Wilkes: "I love you!"…

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