Then you've made the only choice. But there's a penalty attached, as there is to most things you want. It's loneliness.

His voice stopped and they looked for a long quiet moment into each other's eyes and between them lay the sunny lost youth that they had so unthinkingly shared.

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

They knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excitement that went with it.

She is the only dream I ever had that lived and breathed and did not die in the face of reality." (Ashley said about Melanie)

You should be kissed and often, by someone who knows how.

Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless.

[Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents.

The usual masculine dissillusionment is discovering that a woman has a brain

She couldn't survey the wreck of the world with an air of casual unconcern.

It had been so long since she had seen him and she had lived on memories until they were worn thin.

It's not because I've -what is the phrase? -'swept you off your feet' by my -er- ardor?

But she knew that no matter what beauty lay behind, it must remain there. No one could go forward with a load of aching memories.

Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.

You can go to the Devil and not at your leisure. You can go now, for all I care.' 'My pet, I've been to the Devil and he's a very dull fellow. I won't go there again, not even for you.

I'm riding you with a slack rein, my pet, but don't forget that I'm riding with curb and spurs just the same.

You have eternity in which to explain and only one night to be a martyr in the amphitheater Get out, darling, and let me see the lions eat you.

All really nice girls wonder when men don't try to kiss them. They know they shouldn't want them to and they know they must act insulted if they do, but just the same, they wish the men would try.

He made her play and she had almost forgotten how. Life had been so serious and so bitter. He knew how to play and swept her along with him.

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

Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were.

Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.

I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.

I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite.